I did cover my behind saying 'almost'. :-)
Seriously, though. The English in which almost all the 'me too'
replies are written on that board is terrible. I do not subscribe to
ams' view that this is the sort of English that a majority writes
(What I call the "we are like that only" school of explanation). There
are quite a few Indians who write pretty good English.
S.
On 6/1/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 2007-06-01 07:08:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> These UFOs must, apparently, somehow affect our language centers.
> Almost every one of these eyewitness reports is written in crappy
> English.
Thaths...here's an exception to your rule....
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hey no kidding, I saw something bright on Monday late evening, about
8:30 pm. It was like a bright lit thing in the sky coming east from
north-west (from Whitefield, looking up towards north Bangalore, it
was coming east). It seemed a bit odd because the light was too bright
for planes (so used to see them land from skies above Whitefield). God
knows, may be I saw the same UFO these reports are talking about :)
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Deepa.
On 6/1/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2007-06-01 07:08:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > These UFOs must, apparently, somehow affect our language centers.
> > Almost every one of these eyewitness reports is written in crappy
> > English.
>
> Then it's true, they must have started acting on ancient India, because
> this is pretty much how most people in India would write English.
>
> -- ams
>
>
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