Hello Alex Sir, I have given your url for your help. if you will see on home page errors will visible easily to you.
http://www.evaristesys.com/ See homepage content only. Keivn ________________________________ From: Alex Balashov <abalas...@evaristesys.com> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> Cc: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 3:10:30 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Capitalisation in English writing from Indian subcontinent I do not object to your comment in the least. However, it is quite useless to me without specific details of the errors you find. --Sent from mobile device On Oct 8, 2009, at 5:33 AM, Kevin Smith <kevin_voip...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello Alex Sir, > > >I have seen your comment on various websites but I am sorry to tell you that >if you will review your own website "http://www.evaristesys.com/".There are >many spelling mistakes in content of home page of websites,so its better to >improve ourself every time and not to waste time to comment on others. > > >I hope you will not mind my comment > and improve yourself. > > > ________________________________ From: Alex Balashov <abalas...@evaristesys.com> >To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion ><asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> >Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 1:25:56 PM >Subject: [asterisk-biz] Capitalisation in English writing from Indian >subcontinent > >>This recent discussion got me wondering again about something which has >perplexed me for a while: the unusual (from an Anglo-American >perspective) capitalisation patterns - chiefly of nouns - that seem to >consistently occur in technical and commercial copy we see that is >authored in India or Pakistan, presumably by speakers of the various >native English adaptations and/or dialects. To a lesser but nontrivial >extent, I've also seen this from the Middle East. > >I suppose, in the interest of political correctness, that I ought to >preface this inquiry with the disclaimer that this is not intended to >offend anyone. I realise I am quite known to make jabs from time to >time at various people's web sites and solicitations for poor >proofreading, bad spelling and grammar, etc. where it is obvious (to me, >anyway) that the cause is laziness and inattention rather than something >like a genuine > struggle with a foreign language. > >In this case, my interest is purely academic; I wouldn't waste time >writing this missive if it weren't. There are far more economical and >brief ways to call someone specific out for sloppiness, and non-native >English speakers have no kind of monopoly on sloppiness anyway. > >All this to say: if you happen to be a non-native English speaker from >the aforementioned regions, don't bristle -- please take the question in >the spirit in which it's intended. > >Here are some examples of what I am referring to: > >From www.ngtlive.com[1]: > >----- > >"As a well known B2B expert of telecom vertical, we have delivered >applications that are meant to address ever emerging business >requirements. At NGT live we strive to develop and design world class >communication solutions and applications that > offer > operational >flexibility to business processes. > >These applications cover various core segments of Telecom verticals. >Whether there is a need for B2B Integration, Enterprise Application >integration or a Mobile Commerce portal, our globally acclaimed >solutions deliver business innovation capabilities and improved customer >services to several industry domains." > >----- > >From www.super-phone.com (front page): > >----- >"Use your Favorite Instant Messenger like [icons] to make or receive >Phone calls." >----- > >From didforsale.com[2]: > >----- >"Say Good Bye to the expensive traditional way of obtaining inbound SIP >DIDs (VoIP virtual Phone numbers) through the local telephone companies." >----- > > >I've also seen this for years in correspondence > from Indian technicians >on > various mailing lists, as well as intra-organisationally in various >past jobs. > >I cannot identify any consistent criterion which the words capitalised >in the middle of sentences above meet. It's certainly not nouns; many >of the words are adjectives. It's not adjectives; many nouns are >capitalised too. In the first example, "telecom" in "telecom vertical" >is non-capitalised in the first paragraph, but is in the second >("Telecom verticals"). > >While I assume that the unconventional and grammatically impoverished >aspects are not under dispute, at the same time this tendency is too >predictable, consistently visible, and anchored to writers from that >part of the world to have the random properties of a truly chaotic >system. The distribution is not sufficiently uniform to just chalk it >up to ill-grammarred writing. I haven't seen this from other authors > >hailing from other parts of the world whose English writing is also >certifiably poor, or, at the very least, deviant from curricular >standard in the US, Canada and the British Commonwealth. I also don't >see this from people in other former British colonial countries in, for >example, Africa. > >There are other widespread signature errors from people from other >places, but not that particular one. They are easier to explain because >they seem - mostly - to fall into the following two categories: > >1) The conscious or unconscious application of syntax, stylistic >conventions, habits of expression and formulation, etc. from another >language to English. > >2) Written expression of the idiosyncrasies of regional English >dialects, pidgin languages, etc. > >Those are all quite understandable. This capitalisation thing has got >me stumped, though. There is obviously a deliberate > intent at work >here, even if it's being applied incompletely or incorrectly/sloppily >even in terms of what must be its own internally consistent rules. > >So, can anyone help me out here? What are the "rules" governing such >capitalisation, whether or not they are being properly observed in the >samples I chose? Why does this characteristic seem to be particular to >India and Pakistan, and not other former British colonial and/or >Commonwealth nations? > >If I had to take a wild stab at it, I would guess that the time at which >English-language was established in India by the British intersected >somehow with an era in which it was fashionable to capitalise nouns >other than proper nouns, rather in the German manner - which was the >case during the Victorian era, I gather. I'm sure capitalisation >practices that seem dubious from a contemporary perspective obtained >widely in 18th century > written English as well, and probably before it. >But this doesn't explain why the same trend is not seen in other former >British colonies that were acquired in the 19th century, nor shed any >light on the underlying intent or "rules" -- I certainly can't infer any >guidelines from what I see. > >If someone could shed some light on this, I would be intrigued. > >Thanks! > >-- Alex > >[1] http://www.ngtlive.com/inner-left-sidebar/b2b-solutions > >[2] http://www.didforsale.com/moreinfo.php > >-- >Alex Balashov - Principal >Evariste Systems >Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ >Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 >Direct : (+1) (678) > 954-0671 > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > >AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona >Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > >asterisk-biz mailing > list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > _______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > >AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona >Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > >asterisk-biz mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
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