On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:52:09 -0700, jim beam > wrote:
>AZ Nomad wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:44:12 -0700, jim beam > wrote:
>>> Pszemol wrote:
>>>> "jim beam" > wrote in message
>>>> t...
>>>>> obviously. but all i'll help him with is kicking the chair out of the
>>>>> way after he's put the noose around his own idiot neck.
>>>> I can see now more clearly what sort of people you are.
>>
>>> "i can now see more clearly what sort of person you are".
>>
>>> english. math. what are our schools coming to?
>>
>> You think his English is bad? Out of my immediate group of coworkers, five out
>> of seven are from India. A couple of them sound like indians from an early
>> hollywood western. It's also related to our broken educational system -- the
>> company wouldn't be able to find enough software engineers if having english as
>> a first language was a serious requirement.

>that's odd. all the indian engineer's i've worked with have had
>excellent english. thick accents when speaking, but excellent written
>english. it's the language of all higher education in india from what i
>understand.

I dunno. They range all over the place. At one end of the spectrum, I have
an indian coworker who can handle any idiom I care to use. At the other end
of the spectrum is a coworker who can't assemble a complex sentence to
save her life. The latter obviously didn't use 'british english' much if at
all while growing up and must have used the regional languages primarily.
She says that she went to grad school in london. I figure that it gave her
about 2 years exposure to english which sounds about right.

And don't get me going about their seventy syllable names. Their
name tags on the cubicles have to be done in an 8 point font.