Who's learning Indian English?

0 I'm sure there's something like that somewhere, as a joke. That would really be a laugh, because at least here, where it isn't often that you run into an Indian, they have the reputation of being very hard to understand.0-

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01cite10Marvin A.12cite10I'm sure there's something like that somewhere, as a joke. That would really be a laugh, because at least here, where it isn't often that you run into an Indian, they have the reputation of being very hard to understand.12br
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11cite20Marvin A.22cite20I'm sure there's something like that somewhere, as a joke. That would really be a laugh, because at least here, where it isn't often that you run into an Indian, they have the reputation of being very hard to understand.22br
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0 Indian English is a group of English dialects, with their own pronunciations and vocabularies. It is not just "English with an Indian accent," it is the variety of English spoken in India.0-

0Indian English also has its own literature (e.g. V.S. Naipaul) and stylistic features (e.g. elaborate phrasing, use of idioms that would seem Wodehousian or old-fashioned to BrE speakers).02br
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0<We don't really regard Indian-English as being a proper dialect of English, merely English spoken with an Indian accent, and grammatically influenced by the persons native tongue. >02br
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00Just who would that "we" be? 0-

0 00<<We don't really regard Indian-English as being a proper dialect of English, merely English spoken with an Indian accent, and grammatically influenced by the persons native tongue.Standard and non-standard dialects>>02br
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00Indian English, 01b00the largest second language variety of English02b00, is undergoing a process of structural nativization that leads to the variety developing a semi-autonomous norm-developing potential. 02br
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10Just who would that "we" be?12blockquote

10The "we" being most other speakers of other dialects of English. When "we" hear Indian-English, especially in places where that is very rare, such as here, we simply perceive it as being an English as a Second language non-native speaker of English, with grammar and pronunciation infl

0I think we have to distinguish between "Indian English", i.e. the dialect we find in Indian newspapers, etc., and "English which is spoken by Indian people". 02br
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00The latter would include many different kinds of English, including "Indian English", and the English that is learnt by non-Indian-English-speaking Indian people when they move to England, etc.02br