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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Indian English is full of strange little mistakes like this that have become normalized.

Revert

Do the needful

I like to imagine that once upon a time, there was just one dude teaching Indians English, and that dude did not speak English very well, and ever since, Indians have only ever learned English from disciples of that dude.

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get the revert example, how is that incorrect?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Indian English, "revert" means "answer back", whereas in everywhere-else-English, "revert" means "restore something to its previous state".

The most common usage in Indian English is requesting for someone to respond to an email. They'd say "please revert" to mean "please respond to my request".

Another common one I found was "already". In Indian English, "I have already done [x]" means "I just now as we were speaking did [x]", whereas to the rest of the world it means "I did [x] some time ago"

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh so all the responses to my pull requests are actually coming from Indians that want me to reply?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's the fun part, you don't know!

[–] BackStabbath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm Indian. Funny thing is pronouncing it "Tai" with an Indian accent sounds awful. Imma stick with the wrong pronunciation because everyone else says "thigh" here anyway. Ofc the way people pronounce "thigh" in India is also different from the way people from the US would, so it's not as simple as that.