[lit-ideas] Re: Outsourcing shinannigans
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:59:18 -0600
Julie Krueger wrote:
. . . .Hey -- if you live in another country and English is your
second language, fine by me. But why pretend?
Recently I was reading an article that said if one defined "standard"
English as "the English that is most commonly spoken," then the Indian
version is currently the "standard" by which we should judge English.
There are FAR more speakers of English that sound like the help desk
person. You are no longer speaking "standard" English. And in 10 years,
neither will the Indians; by then, the way the Chinese speak English
will be the "standard." We've already seen this happen, of course, when
American English supplanted English English, and became the kind of
English that most Indians and Chinese learn. Now it's the Americans turn
to move out of the way of English progress. . . .
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John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lisle, IL, USA
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