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Without the accent and grammar mistakes a lot of Indian English feels like something an arrogant 19th century British aristocrat would say. I wonder if that is
by 0xDEF 4y ago
Without the accent and grammar mistakes a lot of Indian English feels like something an arrogant 19th century British aristocrat would say.
I wonder if that is also the case in countries that were occupied by other European powers.
- mc32 4y agoQuebec uses some quaint French here and there. Many diasporas ossify some of their original languages, but not always. I do prefer their numbers to actual bonafide French from France numbers. Numbers like Seventy and eighty, for example.
- SonicScrub 4y agoWhat, you don't enjoy saying four twenties ten and seven?
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- RajT88 4y agoProbably true. I became aware at some point that "Please do the needful" is actually proper British and American English which died out 100 years ago.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> the accent and grammar mistakes Liston to Winston Churchill circa 1909 [1]. The modern Indian accent is a ringer for upper-class colonial English. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1i0jhPledU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1i0jhPledU