The Spectator on Hinglish
The Spectator’s David Garner writes about Hinglish (via TriNetre).
I’ve always thought India is very fertile ground for etymologists and latter-day Professor Higginses. If you travel around a bit, you encounter not only Hinglish, but also Benglish (Bengali +English, in the East) and Tamlish (Tamil +English, in the South), and of course the unique Bombay patois (Marathi +Gujarati +Portuguese +English) and many more: each with its own syntactical curiousities (inspired, of course, by the local language), unique words and very diverse pronounciation and delivery patterns.
7 August 2003 3:47 am

