Indlish.
Indish an English spoken or written by the Indian of the sub-continent.
Some of the funnier home-grown idiosyncrasy:
Pritam Singh has left for his heavenly above – a death notice.
Don’t do nuisance in public – government admonition against urinating in public.
Entry from the Backside only – a phrase commonly used in signpost to indicate the rear entrance of a building.
A government official urged farmer to grow “herbs in their backside” (backyards.)
In railway offices, a standard opening line in correspondence is “ Dear Sir, with reference to the above see my below.”
New recruit wrote an e-mail that began: “I am in well and hope you are also in the same well.”
Source: the Star.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
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