Indian English vs American English?

Guest   Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:54 pm GMT
What are the biggest differences?
Guest   Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:52 am GMT
try wiki
Guest   Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:53 pm GMT
American English = an actual dialect, or dialects.
Indian English = a bunch of people who learned English in a classroom
Stanji   Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:22 pm GMT
American English = an actual dialect, or dialects.
Indian English = a bunch of people who learned English in a classroom

I wouldn't be so sure guest, English has been constantly spoken in India for a long time, anglo indians have been speaking it as a first language for quite a long time, a small minority in india, but enough.
SJF   Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:06 am GMT
IE is grammatically like EE, which is to some extent different from AE.
Pos   Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:15 am GMT
Why did you ask the question, Guest?
Guest   Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:18 pm GMT
He's a CIA agent planning to infiltrate the Indian government for their curry secrets!

Just kidding, I'm Indian myself...
Guest   Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:42 pm GMT
Americans are not usually as interested in curry as much as the Brits are
Guest   Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:06 pm GMT
yeah they are
Uriel   Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:08 am GMT
No, we really aren't.
Guest   Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:25 pm GMT
Prior to the early 90s most Americans had never even tasted curry.
Guest   Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:21 pm GMT
I am American and I still haven't ever had curry.
Rosemachinegun   Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:37 am GMT
I'm American and I love curry. My family's of Jamaican descent and they've been making curry dishes for years.
Guest   Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:03 am GMT
I'm American and I had never even heard of curry until a few years ago when it seemed like every other British person was talking about it.
John   Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:39 pm GMT
In the early 80s when I was in about the 3 grade in the North Western US, our teacher brought a Petri-dish containing about 2 grams of curry into class. The dish had small holes drilled in it with fabric taped across the holes. She brought it in so that we could see and smell this exotic Indian spice called "curry". Judging from the way she treated the stuff you would think that it was worth its weight in diamonds or something.

That's how "rare" curry had been in the US up until recently.