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As a counterexample, English speakers in India use the word “revert” in email a lot more often than Americans do, because there it can mean “reply”, as in “I wi
by wrs 2y ago
As a counterexample, English speakers in India use the word “revert” in email a lot more often than Americans do, because there it can mean “reply”, as in “I will revert with that information later today.” I would think that is a much more frequently expressed concept than any of the other meanings of “revert”, so Indian English (at least Indian business email English) is going to have a higher frequency of “revert” than American English.
Not that this exact phenomenon applies to “delve”, but it shows how word frequencies can vary across cultures regardless of “grade level”.
- brightlancer 2y ago> English speakers in India use the word “revert” in email a lot more often than Americans do, because there it can mean “reply”, as in “I will revert with that information later today.” That's not just an issue of frequency but redefinition. I read about English-speaking Indians using the word "prepone" to mean "pushed forward" (as an inverse of "postpone"), and they were shocked when non-Indian English speakers didn't know what they were saying -- because it's not a word in British or American English, and AFAIK it's not a word in among any other native speaking English societies. Neologisms and re-definitions aren't inherently bad, but it can make communication more difficult.