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Chutney goes global: From Indian kitchens to Caribbean music and British supermarket shelvesChutney has travelled far beyond Indian kitchens, evolving into music in the Caribbean, finding a place on British supermarket shelves and ...- India’s AI dream is getting lost in translationIndia's ambition to become an AI superpower hinges on bridging its vast linguistic divide. Prime Minister Modi champions AI for inclusion, ...
- Our funny anarchic ways with the 'The'Indian English creatively uses the definite article 'the'. Indians often add 'the' where it is not needed and omit it where it is. This uni...
- Indian English has nothing to be ashamed ofThe author reflects on their experiences with Nigerian English and how English has been adapted in former British colonies. They highlight ...
- Between pedestrian and pedanticThe author reflects on the evolving use of English in India, noting a shift towards literal interpretations and admiration for complex voca...
- German influencer under fire for mocking India's usage of the word 'expired': Netizens ask her to 'go back to school'A German influencer faced backlash for mocking Indians' use of 'expired' to describe death. The viral video sparked debate, with users defe...
- Indian English pronunciation guides added to Oxford Dictionary for 800 words including 'desh', 'bindaas'The audio for each region-specific word has been recorded by a speaker from the relevant region, following a pronunciation model based on r...
- Linguistic twist to post-Brexit tale: Only Rani's 'angrezi' acceptable in BritainSome person, or persons put up a problematic notice in a block of council flats.
- Aadhaar, dabba, hartal, shaadi among 26 new Indian English words added to Oxford DictionaryOut of the 26 new words, 22 figure in the printed dictionary, while the other four are in the digital version.
- 90% of new net users non-English: Rajan Anandan, VP, GoogleThe study has found that adoption of internet through local languages has been led by services such as messaging (169 mn), digital entertai...
- CultureAlley to hire 40 people in tech, contentJaipur-based startup, CultureAlley will expand its technology and content teams by adding 40 people in the next few months as the userbase ...
- Old colonial legacy in a new lightLike and share: Facebook and Twitter English won’t help create either.
- 'Arre yaar', 'churidaar' make it to Oxford Dictionary'Arré yaar' is no longer just Indian. It is among the new list of words accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary along with churidar, bhel...
- Twitter to translate user policies in Hindi, UrduThe user policies, which are guidelines to the kind of content that can be shared on the website, are currently available in English in Ind...
- Indian kitchen goes global, 'keema', 'papad' now English wordsReflecting the global popularity of Indian food, a number of Indian words like 'keema' and 'papad' have been accepted in the Oxford English...
- Why call it Indian-English or Nigerian-English? Indian or Nigerian would doWords from all sorts of languages & sources finding a place in what is called the Collins English Dictionary, begs the question whether the...
- Vietnamese would certainly be more at ease learning English from IndiansWhile English is given an exalted status reluctantly by our political class no matter how much the average Indian covets fluency in it, the...
- Online ads in desi languages attract more users: SurveyFor Matrimony category, non resident Indian's (NRI) respond better to regional language ads whereas resident Indians respond better to Engl...
- Words in waitingAdopt or reject, don't store English words.
- Google mulls Indian version of cross-language info retrievalInternet giant Google may come up with Indian version of its cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) facility, which searches queries i...
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