[BangPypers] python

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Saturday 10 Jan 2009 12:07:05 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
> > Your being non-english medium educated has no bearing on your using
> > shortened words. Lots of English-medium educated people us such words
> > too.
>
> I studied in an "English Medium" school throughout my 10 years of
> schooling. However, apart from picking up formal English language lessons,
> it did nothing to help me to use English as a daily medium of communication
> because we always used to talk in the mother tongue at school.

anyway, I have seen that people with poor communication skills in English have 
even poorer communication skills in their mother tongue. I once rejected a 
poorly written job application and asked the person to re present it with 
proper grammar and spelling and got a long missive basically saying that his 
language was Kannada and he was being forced to use an alien tongue - 
English. I replied in Kannada asking him to submit his application in 
Kannada - he was unable to read my reply!

I have lots of correspondence with people from non-english backgrounds. Their 
choice of words and grammatical constructions are sometimes very peculiar - 
but they *do* succeed in communicating. And communicating effectively.

-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/