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> I've been in Bangalore, and the English of the majority of programmers I've met here is utterly atrocious. Bangalore is a melting pot, of sorts. Having worke
by lake99 13y ago
> I've been in Bangalore, and the English of the majority of programmers I've met here is utterly atrocious.
Bangalore is a melting pot, of sorts. Having worked here for donkey's years, I have come across colleagues from various parts of India. Colleagues who grew up in bit cities speak perfectly grammatical English; colleagues from towns often bring in their regionalisms. Looking back, I'd say that less than 10% of my colleagues were raised in cities. Perhaps this is what led you to believe that the people of Bangalore butcher English. We generally don't.
> hadn't been coupled with appallingly bad coding skills
This could be a reflection on their attitude towards learning, in general.
> They can actually get good at the language.
Oh yeah? Try learning Hindi. Its grammatical gender drives me nuts.
The rest of your comments (this, and others) are just wild(!) speculation. I'll leave it at that.
- winter_blue 13y ago> Oh yeah? Try learning Hindi. Its grammatical gender drives me nuts. Okay, you have a good point here. I don't actually speak any Hindi, and I was under the impression that it was easy to pick up. I've not yet tried to learn Hindi -- been putting it off as I don't see any immediate use to it. (I won't be in India for long.) I didn't know it had grammatical gender. I remember taking some French in high school, and being pissed off at the gender assigned to every object. I don't know why languages do this. Perhaps a language research institute should be set up to construct a simple easy-to-learn language that sort-of meshes together the major Indo-Aryan tongues (Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, etc.) -- something that would be easy for the speakers of those languages to learn; but also not too hard for speakers of Dravidian languages. :)
- msonawane 13y agoAs an Indian who has lived in all major cities (IT hubs) in India & some cities in China, I am now at conclusion that English is "The simple easy-to-learn" language for the masses (if others stop being pedantic about correctness of others). Also structure of republic of India will fail apart if any regional language is forced on others. This will not work. I suggest when you look at India look at is europe on a large scale. we certainly have more languages ( both written and spoken) than europe and varied ethnicity & unfortunately misplaced pride on accidents of life ( religion, cast, language, parents, region, past etc)
- anuraj 13y agosir, language is an evolutionary device and not a synthetic thing that may be forced on people as you seem to think. You already reek too much of that idiot from Germany!!