I worked with a London Indian contractor who when explaining business processes he would finish each sentence with "Ya get me"
Nice chap though...
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Originally posted by zeitghostYup.
Comes from years of experience of stuff being copied variously from the web & from each other.
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....
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Originally posted by pjclarke View PostLanguage is constantly evolving; you watch - 5 years from now we'll all be saying it. Bit like 'upsert' and 'performant'.
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.
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Originally posted by Bacchus View PostI 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?
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Originally posted by zeitghostHowever 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.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostWhen I first heard someone say "updation" seriously in real life I burst out laughing.
We have "creation" and "deletion" as being the processes of being created or deleted, so why not the process of being updated?
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Originally posted by I just need to test it View PostI'm testing a bit of software here, written by gentlemen from foreign climes, and the success message is this:
"Sales Order <nnnnn> would be updated to database".
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I'm testing a bit of software here, written by gentlemen from foreign climes, and the success message is this:
"Sales Order <nnnnn> would be updated to database".
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Originally posted by pjclarke View PostAre you being ironic? I am surprised by the apparent double standard that communication skills in general and written English in particular are said to be a key element of employability- which I agree with; we regularly get some Captain of industry bemoaning the falling standards in this area and basic numeracy amongst school leavers, and even graduates, while at the same time an increasing proportion of the people I work with at ClientCos are colleagues who don't have English as their first language and whose poor communication skills you would think would render them unemployable. These people seem to get a free pass. I don't get it and I was just wondering what others thought.
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Originally posted by zeitghostWe use it to detect plagiarism.
If the English is good, makes sense, and has punctuation (especially : or ; ) then it's a near dead cert that it's been stolen off the web.Last edited by pjclarke; 14 August 2014, 14:43.
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