Inglish!!!!

Well had been a tough time for a while. After my spring break, things have started to be on a roll and had loads of work to complete, pack off and all tat! Actually that didnt stop me from blogging, but the motivation to blog was missing, till the point i came across this from Smyta's blog Smyta's blog , which literally made me feel something real strong abt bloging again.

Well first of all language is a medium of communication. Tats wat it was when i looked it up last time in wikipedia. The real point of the excercise is to get ur point of view to the other person listening/readin. So it doesnt matter if the english ur speaking is a classical Wren and Martin prescribed, grammatically correct english.

The English (people) have a perfect word for this kind of nit-picking with the grammer 'The purists' (yes i know i dont know where to put the quotation marks in the sentence, but i dont care.

When i read thru the lessons annoyed me was some of the corrections they make is absurd. Usage of term 'cousin-brother','cousin-sister', 'co-brother','co-sister' is incorrect coz in actual english they dont exist.First of all there is no such thing as the perfect "English"... if everybody starts to talk like that, then it has to b "Thou shalt not" kind or shakespherean tongue. I mean just bcause of the british way of life doesnt think beyond parents and bros and sis, doesnt mean a country like india, where there is joint family of 3 generations cant coin a term for some relationships.

The beauty of the language is that, it keeps adapting itself. Americans add new terms to the language daily and noone has the guts to tell them that they speak poor english. In official communication, u can find terms that dont make sense. "I dont want nomore discussions on this topic". But if u tell them this fact, they acknowledge u and inform u readily that, here we speak "Americanized English". And they r proud of it.

I read somewhere that the future of english depends on what India and china speak. With 2 billion people in the world, we darn have the right to speak the way we want to atleast in India or in china. Please if u have any problems with the way we speak, then as they say in kannada "solpa adjust maadi" (kindly adjust)!

Indians r this way and damn proud of it...!! And yeah b4 saying plz speak the way the brits do, i would like to suggest try advocating them that 'plz speak the way we do". Would they accept changing their tongue to suit our needs? nopes,coz they have spoken like that for years and ditto for us as well. !

If u cant speak a language the way the monarchists of 19th century spoke, then that doesnt make me a fool or any1 else for tat matter. Jingoistic, no doubt, but i love speaking Hinglish or Inglish.

(As always, Disclaimer ;)) P:S: I have nothing against smyta or any1 who wants to correct us of our hrr..english! No hard feelings bros and sis!