English-who owns it??

briteesh destraayed avar kantry faar 150 ears. Let us destraay theiyer languvedge foryever.. Do itt yend yenjaay.... Gudd maarningguu...

This was a SMS I received some time ago. Initially I thought that the Queen had agreed to make the changes as per the EU's suggestions.(that was another joke ppl who have been using email for quite sometime would know. you might have got this mail some time ago say 6 or 7 years back..it was meant to mock the EU's system or somethin--gettin back to where I was), I finally figured out what they were trying to get to me.. So I was just pondering over this message in class when a "well-informed" classmate saw the message and popped the question, "hey since when did English belong to the British? I thought it was the American's discovery?" I nearly got a heart attack. So as I drilled some history classes to him, his question kept ringing at the back of my head. Given today's globalisation trend(a favourite topic of my college Director-Globalisation) Engish actually, hardly belongs to the English. It is a global language. Every guy from Afghanistan to Zurkinistan(sorry u won't find that in the map cos I created that) speaks english with a good measure of the local accent mixed in, just like HSBC does. Global banking done locally.(ever seen HSBC ad's ?)

Just walk into a local girls convent school, you'll understand what I mean. An example is , "hey don't stand in the veyil"(no harm meant der, oh fairer sex :)). so as I was saying, you go to tamil nadu you hear tanglish, drop by singapore and you'll get a taste of Singlish(where people rather tend to sing rather than speak. want more examples? try this-"yeah la", "can la", " cmon la, can't tahan or what?") . Now make a trans-continental flight to the land down under and voila you've found a new way of speaking British English... So as we go through places we find that the language is being manipulated and incorporated the world over with the basic essence being the same.

Anybody reading this ever seen a Russell Peter show? For those who don't know wh0 he is, he's an Indo-Canadian Comedian. I happened to see one of his shows(one of my friends had a copy in his comp) the guy said in one of his shows that the world is mixing that in 300 years we won't have white's, black's, yellow's or brown's. Everyone is gonna look beige. His reason?: the major population of the world comprises of Indians and Chinese(add up all da ppl in India, China and all da Ind's n Chin's in da rest of da world u'll get more than just 2 billion.)So sooner or later we are gonna hump u and all we'll have is beige kids..(no offense there again :) incase u are wonderin what there is to be offensed about, just forget it ;) ) But the fact is that what he said is true. Not the humping bit, but the part about the world mixing, and hence the barriers of language disappearing as well. Hmm I think i've put in enough words to express what I felt like tellin, if you still have no idea what I was talkin about, forget it cos I have no idea either.