▲ | deadbabe 4 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yea but you can always tell it’s an Indian because they write differently from actual English speakers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | Y_Y 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indian English is not only a perfectly good dialect, it's one of the most popular worldwide. It doesn't have the prestige of the King's English, but I'd personally prefer it to some of the other colonies'. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | mock-possum 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I feel like ‘actual English’ comes off as unnecessarily mean here. There is no ‘actual English’ there are just different regional and cultural variations. You may personally like one or another better, you may find some particular varieties easier or harder to understand, but that doesn’t make those people any more or less ‘actual’ English speakers than you are. They are ‘actually’ speaking English, just like you. If you wanted to phrase this in a less fraught way, you might say “Yea but you can almost always tell it’s an Indian because they tend to write characteristically distinct from <your nationality> English speakers” - and I would agree with you, sentence structure and idioms do usually make it pretty easy to recognize. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | cortesoft 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
English isn't French, there isn't an 'official version' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | GuinansEyebrows 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Yea but you can always tell it’s an Indian because they write differently from actual English speakers. to what end do you employ this analysis? |