In India, we speak Hinglish, Punjlish, Tinglish...
amongst other 'lishes'. Indians pepper their spoken
English with expressions from every other language
they speak, which makes for a very colourful
conversation.
Cheers
Ujwala
--- Bertha Mo <bertiemo at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Glad you have a sense of humor Mary.

> 

> Bertie

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> Message: 1

> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:39:50 -0800

> From: mary belcher 

> Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 172] Re: Dialect

> To: "The Poverty, Race, Women and Literacy

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> Message-ID: <010401c72ecf$add40610$6802a8c0 at maryb>

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> What would you call Punjabi/English?  Punjablish?

> Punjlish?

> 

> Mary Belcher

> ESL Instructor

> Penticton & Dist. Multicultural Society

> 245 Warren Ave. W.

> Penticton, BC

> V2A 5S2

> Canada

>   ----- Original Message ----- 

>   From: Bertha Mo 

>   To: povertyracewomen at nifl.gov 

>   Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:09 AM

>   Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 151] Dialect

> 

> 

>   As an educator and an anthropologist, I want

> students to understand the different types of

> "English" spoken in the world.   In order to be

> understand and to feel comfortable, they should be

> able to move from one type of "English" to another.

> I'd explain this and give them some interesting

> examples from Chinglish (Cantonese and English from

> San Francisco Chinatown), Spanglish (Spanish and

> English) and some Malaysian and Singaporean English

> which I picked up while doing fieldwork

> overseas...also the Canadian English which I'm so

> used to now that I'm having a difficult time trying

> to find an example.

> 

>   This explanation needs to be given on the first

> day of class so students know that that "decoding"

> is part of goal of the class and not just a personal

> preference.

> 

>   Bertie Mo, Ph.D., MPH

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>     1. [PovertyRaceWomen 145] Re: dialect and

> standard English

>     (Angela Orlando)

>     2. [PovertyRaceWomen 146] Re: dialect (Andrea

> Wilder)

>     3. [PovertyRaceWomen 147] love your body poster

> contest winner

>     (Daphne Greenberg)

>     4. [PovertyRaceWomen 148] New from NCSALL (Kaye

> Beall)

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>     Message: 1

>     Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:42:08 -0500

>     From: "Angela Orlando" 

>     Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 145] Re: dialect and

> standard English

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>     Regarding "dialect" and "standard English"--a

> provocative and powerful

>     essay by June Jordan called "White English/Black

> English: The Politics

>     of Translation" addresses this dilemma well. The

> Change Agent reprinted

>     this in our March 2003 Language and Power issue,

> page 15. You can get to

>     the article by downloading the entire PDF (but

> it's a big file) at

>     http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/backissues.htm.

> There are a couple

>     of other articles on this dilemma as well in the

> same issue (page 6 and

>     7)

> 

> 

>     Cheers,

>     Angela Orlando

> 

>     Angela Orlando

>     Change Agent Editor

>     World Education

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>     1. [PovertyRaceWomen 142] gender differences in

> pay and dialect

>     (Burkett, Barry)

>     2. [PovertyRaceWomen 143] Re: gender differences

> in pay and

>     dialect (andreawilder at comcast.net)

>     3. [PovertyRaceWomen 144] Re: dialect (Jackson,

> Wendy P.)

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