tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971112375693268376.post4355434854277989739..comments2024-02-26T01:48:42.049-08:00Comments on Mitti Pao!: Hindi Hain Hum..Harish Purihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15709395812278893127noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971112375693268376.post-45314514787028206882014-09-10T02:43:22.264-07:002014-09-10T02:43:22.264-07:00Harish, you may recruit me into your clan of peopl...Harish, you may recruit me into your clan of people who steadfastly stand up for the correct use of the English language. (the Queen's English as it is called has traveled far beyond her Kingdom and has acquired and accepted so many colloquial terms that it can no longer be called so.) I am so obsessed with its accuracy that no matter how appropriate or relevant a post, I refuse to 'like' it if it is grammatically wrong or has misspelled words. And as for SMS's using ridiculous abbreviations, call me obsolete, but they never fail to get my goat!vinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04527371945174370430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971112375693268376.post-4858176576300033212014-06-24T05:52:34.111-07:002014-06-24T05:52:34.111-07:00The aim, Deepak, was not to take a swipe at anyone...The aim, Deepak, was not to take a swipe at anyone. Rather to take a light hearted look back at some of my goof ups linked to the issue. <br /><br />On a more serious note, though, what you say is unfortunately true. The 'bastardised' version of Queen's English is now perfectly acceptable, and is being used with great gusto by ad agencies as well (’Yeh dil manage more', plus all the Amul ads), so my yearning for the more purist version of the language is a lone and fading voice. <br /><br />The Concise Oxford Dictionary (which has been my bible since my school days) does now list a lot of Hindi words - but Rashtrapati or Raksha Mantri are not among them!!<br /><br />So I'll stick to my stand - not only is using these terms in an English sentence syntactically wrong, it also sounds extremely ludicrous!Harish Purihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709395812278893127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1971112375693268376.post-38151091633715444592014-06-24T05:00:21.705-07:002014-06-24T05:00:21.705-07:00might as well have named the recent somebody!! as ...might as well have named the recent somebody!! as far as i am concerned, using Hindi mixed up with English is not bad at all so long as the meaning is conveyed effectively. isnt that the way the vocabulary of the language grows? there are many Hindi words which are now accepted in English.Deepak Kherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05507626710405468991noreply@blogger.com