Joona I Palaste said:
I've been wondering about this for too long. Why is it that *every
single* Indian C programmer I have seen on this newsgroup writes "u"
for "you"? Many manage otherwise perfectly grammatical English but
that one mistake sticks out. Do they have a law in India forcing
schools to teach mangled English or something?
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Not *every single* Indian C [or see] programmer. [Yo]u will find
a very small percentage of my posts containing the SMS lingo. At the
roots of this is a socio-developmental cause. That would be quite OT I
should think. The fact that it is a third world country may have
something to do with it. It is easy to be judgemental sitting in the
comforts of an AC cabin in places where people are paid good cash and
given free cars as social benefit for doing absolutely nothing. Here
education is a luxury, not a sure fire access scheme. People go to
great lengths to achieve it. Some of the people who do the posting may
have learnt from local language schools.. maybe that would be a valid
cause ... A good percentage of us learn it purely from the foreign
media. In fact it is a tribute to the tenacity of our people that BPO
is coming to us in a major way.
When choosing between grammer and food the choice may not be too
difficult. Regardless, there is an increasing percentage of people
specially in the cities who are Anglicised in the real sense of the
term. In concluding, I would just have to say that judge
Indians/Mexicans/Martians...and any other creature not on the basis of
the outward characteristics, but on the inner correctness as a whole.
And don't go at nations/communities ... with the advent of the
Internet and globalisation we should be moving out of that phase at
least now. For too long we have been involved in uncivilised groupings
which served our purposes in the long dead past. Now look at the
future and a removal of barriers and not vice versa.
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