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While I admits its much easier and fun to use slang and colloquial words, the murderous adaptation of the language simply has me dying laughing so often.

This convent kid i know once asked me to review a school article for her, and when I saw her freely using words like ”oldies” to describes senious citizens and ”kidos” to depict,well, kids, I was just appalled to think that she was a fresh product of one of the best convent schools in the country!!

What was even more astonishing and bewildering to me, that one of my closest friends- an English language major, who prided herself on her elite judiciary background, her inability to converse in or understand typical Hindi words, her Punjabi roots, her love of English novels, and most of all, the fact that both her parents often conversed with her in English- used this rather bizarre expression ”out of the bloom” (presumably meaning ’out of the blue’) rather liberally!!

Of course I never had the heart to correct her, but it made me wonder about the state of the language in India and the social stigma associated with someone who doesn’t use it!!]]> Oh lord!! The article so terrifically enlightens one about the state of spoken English amongst most ”English-speaking” crowd of the world.



While I admits its much easier and fun to use slang and colloquial words, the murderous adaptation of the language simply has me dying laughing so often.



This convent kid i know once asked me to review a school article for her, and when I saw her freely using words like ”oldies” to describes senious citizens and ”kidos” to depict,well, kids, I was just appalled to think that she was a fresh product of one of the best convent schools in the country!!



What was even more astonishing and bewildering to me, that one of my closest friends- an English language major, who prided herself on her elite judiciary background, her inability to converse in or understand typical Hindi words, her Punjabi roots, her love of English novels, and most of all, the fact that both her parents often conversed with her in English- used this rather bizarre expression ”out of the bloom” (presumably meaning ’out of the blue’) rather liberally!!



Of course I never had the heart to correct her, but it made me wonder about the state of the language in India and the social stigma associated with someone who doesn’t use it!!

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