05-04-2007, 12:21 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sometimes I wonder if it makes any difference at all, considering that the parents want exactly this - the little yuppie schoolboy with as few traditional hang-ups as possible, speaking English fluently. No matter, they can always wax eloquent on their "Hindu heritage", and write Hindu narratives. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
But the irony is that many of them cannot speak English properly, I know so many people who can read and write English well but will be stuck for words and use all sorts of nonsensical grammar (present tense is mixed up wid past tense and so on) to get through the English conversation, it's total comedy when that happens, the gora on the other side has to ask 10 times to pardon him before he gets what they are saying and these lot speak Tenglish with gusto which is the ironic thing.
But the irony is that many of them cannot speak English properly, I know so many people who can read and write English well but will be stuck for words and use all sorts of nonsensical grammar (present tense is mixed up wid past tense and so on) to get through the English conversation, it's total comedy when that happens, the gora on the other side has to ask 10 times to pardon him before he gets what they are saying and these lot speak Tenglish with gusto which is the ironic thing.