I speak Inglish

Blogger wants to know if I write in:
1. English (United Kingdom) or
2. English (United States)

The answer is: Neither.
'Cause, like a true Indian of the 21st century, I speak: 'INGLISH'!

What's Inglish, you say?
You gotta talk to one of us to understand.
It's what we speak. It's how we speak.
I can give you a few examples though:
- We Indians apologize or apologise as we wish. Or not.
- We may think colors but write colours (an old habit as a result of who was taught 'British' English at school, at least for the 90s kids).
- We add suffixes to our sentences ranging from 're' to 'man' to 'naa?' to 'ya' to 'pa' to....okay, you get it!
(Btw, I detest the widely used and variably prolonged 'yaa...aar')
- We add our own little somethings borrowed from our mother-tongues to our English conversations to spice them up.
- Everyone of us has at sometime used a direct translation of a proverb/adage of their 'mother-tongue' and passed it off as English. Also, we do accept similar such usages by our brothers and sisters from the other parts of the country, 'cause India is a socialist and secular country, you know. And we gotta protect our culture and heritage.
- You can identify which part of India someone is from by the way they greet you or scold/abuse you.
- We are very accepting of new words and frequently accommodate them in our vocabulary, without regard to which part of the world they came from originally, as long as they sound good and are catchy. And we use them with full passion. Well, the more cryptic and regal they are, the better.
All of this, not considering the multiple accents across the length and breadth of the country!

So, I've been thinking lately that this discrimination and 'colonisation' of the English language is bigoted and archaic. Just as English had evolved from Latin, I think it takes on a local tang and flavour in every country it is spoken. And every country deserves its own dialect!

So let's forget about the differences and huddle under a solitary 'English'(global) umbrella together, shall we? :)