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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:24 am Post subject: The Prime Minister of India speaks better English than Bush |
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| Watching the news conference with these two, and if I were American, frankly I"d be embarassed about his trailer-park English, while his host spoke a far more eloquent version of what is not his first language. Clearly having an MBA doesn't guarantee that one will be articulate. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for that insightful, eluminating post. Here I was thinking Bush was eloquent, but now that you provided your opinion on the man, I've changed my mind! |
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yoda
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
Location: Incheon, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| host spoke a far more eloquent version of what is not his first language |
Are you sure it's not his first language. As far as I know, for a lot of Indians, English is the first language. Don't let their particular dialect fool you into thinking it's a second language. I found this on a quick Google search:
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| India's official language is Hindi in the Devnagri script. However, English continues to be the official working language. For many educated Indians, English is virtually their first language, and for a great number of Indians who are multilingual, it will probably be the second. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:47 am Post subject: Re: The Prime Minister of India speaks better English than B |
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| coolsage wrote: |
| Watching the news conference with these two, and if I were American, frankly I"d be embarassed about his trailer-park English, while his host spoke a far more eloquent version of what is not his first language. Clearly having an MBA doesn't guarantee that one will be articulate. |
Of course he speaks better English than Bush. He's a Prime Minister, as in the leader of Commonwealth nation. |
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