Literacy

[Bacchus]

When I first heard someone say "updation" seriously in real life I burst out laughing.

I heard "updation" for the first time this week, and I have to confess I quite like it.

We have "creation" and "deletion" as being the processes of being created or deleted, so why not the process of being updated?

[Bunk]

However the ex Esteemed Customer of whom I'm most proud is the chap who got stuck down the hole in Wind Street.

It's on youtube.

Just googled that. It's hilarious

[DiscoStu]

I heard "updation" for the first time this week, and I have to confess I quite like it.

We have "creation" and "deletion" as being the processes of being created or deleted, so why not the process of being updated?

I think upgradation is my favourite.

[Bacchus]

I think upgradation is my favourite.

presumably the opposite of degradation?

Clearly some holes in the language here, room for a bit patchation.

[SueEllen]

Language is constantly evolving; you watch - 5 years from now we'll all be saying it. Bit like 'upsert' and 'performant'.

It's in some dictionaries already but not the Oxford English Dictionary.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

upgradation
Indian English.

The raising or improvement of grade, status, or level; = upgrading n. at upgrade v. Derivatives.
1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. i. 186 The upgradation of a number of posts has been postponed because of the financial crisis.
1986 Business India 8 Sept. 153/1 (advt.) Our Company lays great stress on technical training and knowledge upgradation.
1990 Institutional Investor (Internat. ed.) Apr. s 23/1 The program also has a term loan component which supports investment activity in capacity upgradation and research and development.

[SueEllen]

Yup.

Comes from years of experience of stuff being copied variously from the web & from each other.

The majority of the people who speak English as an additional language I mix with learnt it before they were 9 so they can speak and write it fluently. Those that learnt British English are also proud that it's not American English or any other variant.

Then there are those who learnt it as teenagers or adults, and have no problem saying how bad their speaking and/or writing is.

Finally there is a group of others who just won't admit their English is poor even if it's a variant of English. This is the group who love copy and paste....

[CloudWalker]

I worked with a London Indian contractor who when explaining business processes he would finish each sentence with "Ya get me"
Nice chap though...