Do We Really Need A Hinglish Class, Isn't This Just Pandering

[emmie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-43292287/students-in-portsmouth-first-to-take-hinglish-course

[Peter Pedant]

// It will probably go the same way as Esperanto.//

Nope it is out there - Esperanto and Volapuk arent.

used in business - Hindi is indo-european ( unlike Arabic and Chinese) so analysis should be straighforward. A bit like Spangleesh and Itanyol
Itanyol is the Italian-Spanish hybrid

so instead of earnestly asking over and over - "why we need dis den?" let us wonder if the kind of Hinglish varies with social status ....

yes it does apparently
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815034886

[dannyk13]

Garaman, can you explain how this has any effect on you?.No, I am not new on here, are you?

[Peter Pedant]

// Which business community? Certainly not the international business community. I've never heard of it.// someone

then of course it doesnt exist ! Listen to the lady

Like Dougie I get cold called from India in Hinglish

[naomi24]

PeterPedant, yes, do listen to the lady. It doesn’t exist within the international business community.

[tamborine]

The punkawallah put my jodpurs in the verandah of the bungalow after polo = hinglish ;)

[aelmpvw]

asking danny if he was 'new on here' tickled my perverse sense of humour

[youngmafbog]

But did the Chai wallah bring your afternoon tea to the veranda afterwards?

[Cloverjo]

Seems a daft idea to me. If English is your first language and you want to communicate with Hindi speakers, learn Hindi. And vice versa. To deliberately muddle the two languages doesn't help anyone.

[Spicerack]

youngmafbog // Similarly to TTT I have spent 30 years in Banking with much of it working with Indians bother here and in India.//

Yes, I find them a nuisance too.

[steg]

///To deliberately muddle the two languages doesn't help anyone.///
it seems to help them whom learn it.

[Mamyalynne]

I've enjoyed finding out more about this, very interesting.

This short piece from 2004 is a good read.

https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1123/p01s03-wosc.html

[youngmafbog]

Nice one Spice, Fat Finger Syndrome coupled with autocorrect appears to strike again I'm afraid.