On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Krish Ashok<jalsa.ji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Despite being "Expert cross-cultural consultants" for Western businesses in > India, these guys - http://www.amritt.com/IndianEnglish.html seemed to have > missed out on "function", despite not missing gems like "fitment" and > "Co-brother". But speaking of functions and procedures, Indian IT is another > rich source of Indian English neologisms, such as "functionalities", "codes" > and "softwares" and my favourite "Please revert back with concerns, if any" I used to seed mail to some of my co-workers with gems like "attached please find the attached attachment". Whether out of pity or cluelessness, nobody made any comment on that one. Divya Sampath (nowadays a lurker on this list) and I once had a running gag at a former workplace about introducing terms like "cogno-intellectual" into powerpoint slides and seeing if anyone caught it. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
