Ah. Indian "business english" and "IT english" jargon

Please do the needful and revert
I am "100% inline" with this <- direct quote from a guy on a call I was on
PFA for "please find attached" 
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Krish 
Ashok
Sent: Wednesday, 26 August 2009 9:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [silk] "Function" [was Chennai Silk Meet on the 29th?]


On 26-Aug-09, at 8:54 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:

>
> Any ideas on how "function" came to mean "event"?
>

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"



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