[lit-ideas] Re: Outsourcing shinannigans

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judyevans@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:29:28 -0000

>You are no longer speaking "standard" English

unless you live in Wales!

http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-802.html

http://ask.metafilter.com/68910/Did-Indian-accent-descend-from-Welsh-tutelage


Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Wager" <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Outsourcing shinannigans


> 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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