Indlish: The Book for Every English-speaking IndianEnraged polemic though this book may be, it is also constructive,collected and funny. Where it is angry, it is righteous anger because the evils it condemns if left unchecked are likely to kill English as a truly expressive medium for journalistic and business writing in India. . . . This book may be the last hope for reform. |
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Page xxii
... journalists whose job it is to use the English language abuse it frequently . They are print and TV journalists . Because of the durability of the printed word , the sins of the former remain with us longer than those of the latter ...
... journalists whose job it is to use the English language abuse it frequently . They are print and TV journalists . Because of the durability of the printed word , the sins of the former remain with us longer than those of the latter ...
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... journalism in India was a clerical pursuit , he did not specify whether he had the mindlessness of Indian journalists in mind . The language of reports in this daily shows the reverence that these clerks- turned - reporters have for ...
... journalism in India was a clerical pursuit , he did not specify whether he had the mindlessness of Indian journalists in mind . The language of reports in this daily shows the reverence that these clerks- turned - reporters have for ...
Page 360
... Journalists in the USA of the 1960s gave to dialogue . Was it a conscious decision ? Tom Wolfe , a pioneer of New Journalism , explains : If you follow the progress of the New Journalism closely through the 1960s , you see an ...
... Journalists in the USA of the 1960s gave to dialogue . Was it a conscious decision ? Tom Wolfe , a pioneer of New Journalism , explains : If you follow the progress of the New Journalism closely through the 1960s , you see an ...
Contents
Seesawing to plain English | 3 |
The familiar abuses are now on hold | 9 |
The whirligig of circumlocution | 14 |
Copyright | |
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absurd active voice adjectives adverb Bangalore Bengali BHIMA Chief Minister circumlocution clutter commercialese Complete Plain Words convey dialogue East India Company emphasis emphatic pronoun English-language newspapers English-language press Eric Partridge example excerpt facilities Flesch flexible syntax Fowler Hindi idiom idiomatic impersonal passive India's English-language papers Indian English Indian languages Indlish issue italicised journalists Kannada Karnataka killed Krishna letter literary Victorian English Malayalam mantras meaning meaningless miscreants newspaper reports non-fiction noun officialese officials Parashuram parenthetic clauses participle party passive voice phrases pidgin plain English plain language Plain Words pleonasm plural police prose question reader redundant regard regional languages rule S M Krishna sense sentence serve Sir Ernest Gowers sound speech story style sub-editors talk Tamil tell thing told translate unidiomatic vague verb William Zinsser Wren & Martin writing written Indian languages