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On a tangent, my native language is not English and I very often find pieces written in 'Indian English' extremely hard to read. It gives the opposite feeling o
by nuancebydefault 4y ago
On a tangent, my native language is not English and I very often find pieces written in 'Indian English' extremely hard to read. It gives the opposite feeling of reading a novel, NOT because it would be incorrect English, but because it seems to be stuffed with unnecessarily complicated constructs. Like double negations, long sentences interleaved with short ones, choice of nouns and verbs that are not the most common, while a common alternative exists, and so on. Does anybody share this feeling?
- kesava 4y agoI am an Indian, and I share this feeling. We have some very good writers and lots of mediocre ones, not to comment about this particular post, which i have not read. Anyway, Indian schooling does not focus on writing as a skill, as much as they do on math and science.
- nuancebydefault 4y agoThis actually makes sense, grammatically/mathematically correct does not necessarily mean readable. If Indian schooling does not have it in focus, the result is as expected.
- npinterview 4y agoBeing proficient in English was seen as being among the elite in the colonial era. This results in a premium being placed on complicated and convoluted phrases. Like in legal documents. This seems to be prevalent in the former British colonies in Africa too.
- nuancebydefault 4y agoThanks for this insight!