Fractured English
Thought for the day: The “believer” is happy. The “doubter” is wise. I love hearing/listening/(occasionally) talking fractured English, of the kind ‘I didn’t knew that’, or, ‘If you don’t mind, I don’t have mind’. Or, the Gujju lady who was wanted to show off her English(enroute to the US of A) and after every few sentences, would say ‘Oh, Seeeet’. So, an article on fractured English, which made my day, today, courtesy the barrel of laughs it gave in the midst of a tiring work session. Here are the extracts of the English quotes: 1. Place: well known hospital in Chennai. A signboard outside the X-ray room: “ Suspicious pregnant women should not take X-ray”. (The author writes- ‘ I immediately had a vision of a group of pregnant women, looking sharply at this and that, their eyes darting here and there like wary snakes, suspecting everyone of mal intent’) 2.I n Madras, many elders use the expression, “By the by” 3. In many parts of North India, it is common for visitors to tell young ...