Comments on: Switching it to the higher side http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: SemiDesiMasala http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272062 SemiDesiMasala Mon, 17 May 2010 19:35:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272062 <p>I wish my prose was more eye catchy. Just give me a seconds and I will make it more heart winning.</p> I wish my prose was more eye catchy. Just give me a seconds and I will make it more heart winning.

]]> By: delurker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272049 delurker Mon, 17 May 2010 15:21:26 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272049 <p>"I found it through the company that designed the website."</p> <p>Thanks.</p> “I found it through the company that designed the website.”

Thanks.

]]> By: Melvin http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272034 Melvin Mon, 17 May 2010 05:41:30 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272034 <blockquote>How did Melvin stumble upon this website?</blockquote> <p>I found it through the company that designed the website.</p> <blockquote>If anything else was being pitched I would be at ease, but a content writing service? It is simply too atrocious for that</blockquote> <p>Yeah, it would be like me giving singing lessons. I do agree that the guy has "ambition/gumption," which is a big part of success. Lots of people have talent, but don't put themselves out there. This guy is at least trying, even if he's the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RrLQUN8UJg">William Hung </a>of content writing.</p> How did Melvin stumble upon this website?

I found it through the company that designed the website.

If anything else was being pitched I would be at ease, but a content writing service? It is simply too atrocious for that

Yeah, it would be like me giving singing lessons. I do agree that the guy has “ambition/gumption,” which is a big part of success. Lots of people have talent, but don’t put themselves out there. This guy is at least trying, even if he’s the William Hung of content writing.

]]> By: LinZi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272033 LinZi Mon, 17 May 2010 05:31:33 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272033 <blockquote>I don't think that we can just take this as an example of "Indian English" and leave it at that.</blockquote> <p>Agreed. Most of my co-workers at an English school in Delhi were Indians who had degrees in English and spoke it fluently. Of course there are differences in Indian English, as there are in Australian English, British English, and American English, but Indian English still follows grammar rules, and, ahem, makes sense. This kid, while flying high in the entrepreneurial spirit, is flying low in the technical skills portion of, er, doing something that makes money.</p> I don’t think that we can just take this as an example of “Indian English” and leave it at that.

Agreed. Most of my co-workers at an English school in Delhi were Indians who had degrees in English and spoke it fluently. Of course there are differences in Indian English, as there are in Australian English, British English, and American English, but Indian English still follows grammar rules, and, ahem, makes sense. This kid, while flying high in the entrepreneurial spirit, is flying low in the technical skills portion of, er, doing something that makes money.

]]> By: LinZi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272032 LinZi Mon, 17 May 2010 05:27:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272032 <blockquote>the indefinite article </blockquote> <p>The bane of English....</p> the indefinite article

The bane of English….

]]> By: melbourne desi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272031 melbourne desi Mon, 17 May 2010 04:49:58 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272031 <p>@15, Irony, I'm not sure how to describe someone who was born in India and raised in the US since he was 5. If you know a better way of describing that ... you are hired as my copy writer :).</p> <p>I think the comment was about usage of the indefinite article - maybe i am wrong !! not your upbringing.</p> @15, Irony, I’m not sure how to describe someone who was born in India and raised in the US since he was 5. If you know a better way of describing that … you are hired as my copy writer :) .

I think the comment was about usage of the indefinite article – maybe i am wrong !! not your upbringing.

]]> By: bumli http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272029 bumli Mon, 17 May 2010 04:14:50 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272029 <p>If anything else was being pitched I would be at ease, but a content writing service? It is simply too atrocious for that</p> If anything else was being pitched I would be at ease, but a content writing service? It is simply too atrocious for that

]]> By: BlueHenna http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272027 BlueHenna Mon, 17 May 2010 03:06:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272027 <p>Okay, so this was hysterical....but, unfortunately, when I'm in India visiting my relatives and attempting to have rational and coherent conversations with them in Hindi, I'm sure I sound not too different from this poor kid.</p> Okay, so this was hysterical….but, unfortunately, when I’m in India visiting my relatives and attempting to have rational and coherent conversations with them in Hindi, I’m sure I sound not too different from this poor kid.

]]> By: nil http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272026 nil Mon, 17 May 2010 02:49:29 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272026 <p>@15, Irony, I'm not sure how to describe someone who was born in India and raised in the US since he was 5. If you know a better way of describing that ... you are hired as my copy writer :).</p> @15, Irony, I’m not sure how to describe someone who was born in India and raised in the US since he was 5. If you know a better way of describing that … you are hired as my copy writer :) .

]]> By: melbourne desi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/05/15/switching_it_to/comment-page-1/#comment-272025 melbourne desi Mon, 17 May 2010 02:20:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6162#comment-272025 <p><I was constantly told that they had mastered the queens English and Americans spoke a vastly inferior form of English>.</p> <p>Yes - unfortunately this is often believed to be true.</p> <p>A global language has many variants. eg is the Tamil spoken in Chennai superior to the one spoken in Singapore or one spoken in Mayiladathurai. English is now a global language and every culture modifies it as its own. Australians can talk to each other in English and the Americans / Canadians / South Africans would not understand. And vice versa - ok prob not for the Americans :)</p> <p>The website above is poor Indian English but then English is not an indicator entrepreneurial spirit in India :) - if anything inversely proportional.</p> .

Yes – unfortunately this is often believed to be true.

A global language has many variants. eg is the Tamil spoken in Chennai superior to the one spoken in Singapore or one spoken in Mayiladathurai. English is now a global language and every culture modifies it as its own. Australians can talk to each other in English and the Americans / Canadians / South Africans would not understand. And vice versa – ok prob not for the Americans :)

The website above is poor Indian English but then English is not an indicator entrepreneurial spirit in India :) – if anything inversely proportional.

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