When the British left, they took with them treasures, but gave India the railways. They took spices and gave cricket. They took several kingdoms, and left behind a few countries. They also took their English, and left behind 'Hinglish' (popularly the name given to a hybrid of Hindi and English, but in this case, the wreckage of the Language of the Queen).
Now, this 'Hinglish' can be found prevalent all over India - not just in the states where Hindi is the most common (... actually, the second most - after the traditional 'Hinglish') language spoken. This 'Hinglish' unifies India in a way that only a Sachin Tendulkar century can. It doesn't matter what a person's 'Mother Tongue' is (every Indian MUST have a Mother Tongue - a language that he/she literally belongs to. This can never be 'English'. No Indian would ever accept that another Indian's Mother Tongue is English.), the dialect of 'Hinglish' remains the same across the country (...soon to beat Mandarin as the most widely spoken language in the world).
A very brief example to set the ball rolling. "A" (used as an article).
In spoken Hinglish, the article, 'a' is pronounced just like the alphabet 'a'. For example, in the sentence: I saw a house, the word 'a' is pronounced "AY". As much as I would love to analyse the origins of such deviations from English, I would like to point out that this mispronunciation is one of the most common in Hinglish, and I'm fairly certain I have heard this at least once almost every day of my life.
I must now take a nap.
Now, this 'Hinglish' can be found prevalent all over India - not just in the states where Hindi is the most common (... actually, the second most - after the traditional 'Hinglish') language spoken. This 'Hinglish' unifies India in a way that only a Sachin Tendulkar century can. It doesn't matter what a person's 'Mother Tongue' is (every Indian MUST have a Mother Tongue - a language that he/she literally belongs to. This can never be 'English'. No Indian would ever accept that another Indian's Mother Tongue is English.), the dialect of 'Hinglish' remains the same across the country (...soon to beat Mandarin as the most widely spoken language in the world).
A very brief example to set the ball rolling. "A" (used as an article).
In spoken Hinglish, the article, 'a' is pronounced just like the alphabet 'a'. For example, in the sentence: I saw a house, the word 'a' is pronounced "AY". As much as I would love to analyse the origins of such deviations from English, I would like to point out that this mispronunciation is one of the most common in Hinglish, and I'm fairly certain I have heard this at least once almost every day of my life.
I must now take a nap.
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