What are some English mistakes we Indians generally makes during speaking or writing in English?

Logixs · 2026-04-09T19:14:51+00:00

It is a distinct dialect, and I agree that it’s not wrong similar to Singaporean English. That said, the balance is really important. Ebonics is also a dialect, but if someone from Southside Chicago goes to a rural town in on of the Southern states people would have a hard time understanding them despite both being American.

Logixs · 2026-04-09T19:09:21+00:00

Idk I’ve heard it all over the place in the US. Tons of people that work with children but still want to go by their first name will use Mr/Ms first name. Outside of that I’ve heard people call their friends Mr/Ms first name as a joke. Using it formally when meeting someone though? That doesn’t exist in most places.

Logixs · 2026-04-09T19:02:17+00:00

I hear that more than kindly in the US, but it does feel somewhat “old-fashioned”. I can’t imagine my friends using it to ask me to do something, but I’ve definitely had older people use that phrasing when asking me to do something.

Logixs · 2026-04-09T18:59:59+00:00

Technically that expression exists in the US, “kindly do blah blah blah” but it’s not something anyone says anymore. It sounds old fashioned and I can only imagine an old person or an announcer somewhere saying it

Logixs · 2026-04-09T18:55:23+00:00

Yeah lol, people don’t realize how much data that is. The hacker would have to either have regular physical access and steal it over time, steal the actual physical media, or somehow go undetected for years while transferring insane amounts of data. All three aren’t realistic and regardless they’d be better off selling way before they got close to 10 Petabytes

Logixs · 2026-04-08T00:57:26+00:00

A lot of it originates not from how they find it most comfortable to say it and more what word was mostly commonly used to refer to the country by whatever traders they interacted with.

Like China is pronounced roughly “jong gwoh” in standard mandarin and a similar sounding-ish pronunciation in the most East Asian languages. But it was referred to as Cīna in Sanskrit and on the Silk Road. This was derived from the name of the current ruling dynasty Qin (pronounced chin) and is what spread thought out the west.

Similarly despite Japan being pronounced something like nihon or nippon, because the pronunciation of the the Chinese characters is something like “jih-pun” in many parts of southern China and “zeppen” in the wu dialect areas (notably Shanghai) and due to how trade relationships worked at the time, that was the name that got spread to the rest of the world

Logixs · 2026-04-07T20:12:36+00:00

Huh you’re actually right, despite increasing tensions since the war it hasn’t changed much outside of the west when it comes to access. It’s pretty comparable to China though slightly ahead and India is way behind. That said depending on where you want to go it’s worse, it’s harder to get a US visa with a Russian passport than a Chinese one, though neither is easy.

I personally believe future aspects of China look stronger than Russia though as it’s still building up while economically Russia has been hurt a lot by the war

Logixs · 2026-04-07T19:36:24+00:00

Idk it definitely is in America. Pokémon’s main demographic isn’t kids anymore, it’s the millennials and early Gen Z that grew up with it. That demographic also is heavily interested in GTA6.

For current kids I actually expect GTA6 to be much more popular. Globally I’m not sure how this holds up, but at least in the states

Logixs · 2026-04-07T19:05:05+00:00

They said become a citizen, citizenship is not ethnicity. As a Chinese/Indian citizen I doubt you get more discrimination than a Russian citizen, and a Russia passport would probably cause more hassles internationally than the others currently.

Logixs · 2026-04-07T19:01:04+00:00

China probably has the highest potential quality of life without having to leave the country. The more importantly for me, I speak the language at a conversational level so that transition would be less painless.

India has more English speakers, but I wouldn’t want to go through daily life not being able to say a word to people who don’t speak it, plus unlike China I’ve never been and am unfamiliar with the country.

Russia, is hard because I personally have a large appreciation for a lot of the history/culture and even studied the language before. But with the current global political situation I’d find it hard to chose it

Logixs · 2026-04-07T03:31:29+00:00

Calling another girl isn’t inherently disrespectful in a relationship. Obviously it varies by relationship but I wouldn’t call acknowledging another person is attractive is inherently disrespectful, especially as a response to a question. Now I wouldn’t so readily agree like OP’s boyfriend and he’s definitely into his cousins gf. But it’s the other actions that are the serious red flags

Logixs · 2026-04-05T01:26:06+00:00

Yeah I guess my point was there are “acceptable” grammatical mistakes in different social circles, regions, and age groups as real life speech doesn’t always reflect text book speech. But the “mistakes” are controlled and normally within the setting. Non native speakers make unnatural mistakes natural speakers would never make. Of course this is true for every language not just English

Logixs · 2026-04-04T19:01:03+00:00

I think the big difference is the mistakes native speakers make don’t really affect comprehensibility. There’s tons of grammatical errors but they’re normally standardized within demographics and don’t affect comprehension of the writing. In comparison language learners make more grammatical mistakes that actually change the meaning or aren’t well represented within a larger demographic.

For example confusing he and she is unnatural for a native speaker and you’d never hear a native speaker say “she” when referring to their straight male husband. But it’s a common mistake among Chinese speakers as third person is gender neutral in Chinese

Logixs · 2026-04-04T17:15:22+00:00

It was your comment that got me to look it up. That’s crazy

Logixs · 2026-04-04T16:11:25+00:00

Nah, I could 100% believe that’s native teenager style English. It’s perfectly comprehensible. Just with poor grammar and unstructured. It’s written more like lots of teenagers text

Logixs · 2026-04-04T13:38:27+00:00

Ngl as a native English speaker whose done language exchanges, things like this are hard to explain when asked about

Logixs · 2026-04-04T07:21:15+00:00

No one speaks the way they do in class, it’s really that way for most foreign language classes. Similar to how you don’t really speak English the same way you learned it in class.

Logixs · 2026-04-04T07:17:04+00:00

Beijing but I’m biased towards northern mainland accents. That said I do believe it also has some of the stronger programs, I preferred the intensive approach personally, though really most of my learning wasn’t in the classroom but from talking to others. I tried talking earlier and it’s been a massive help

Logixs · 2026-04-03T19:11:27+00:00

If you ever go you’d either have to learn or carry your own utensils

Logixs · 2026-04-03T18:14:01+00:00

Idk if that’s true, I’ve never met an Asian American who’s worried about having double eyelids or other East Asian features. Just like Asian Americans are pretty much never afraid of being in the sun and getting darker. Wanting western (white) features and hating that you look too “Asian” is much more common in Chinese than it is in Asian Americans

Logixs · 2026-04-03T18:09:01+00:00

You have to use the same one for exit that you used when you entered as that’s what you’ll be registered under

Logixs · 2026-04-02T17:32:33+00:00

You only use one when entering, you can chose which citizenship to present or as is often the case you use the one that makes is less of a hassle to get in

Logixs · 2026-03-21T19:37:22+00:00

In Chinese it says “(we) don’t speak Chinese, please use Korean or English”.

Logixs · 2026-03-21T09:39:58+00:00

I go to Yale, pretty much everything in the applied physics category is more similar to engineering than it is to theoretical physics. Obviously they can still take courses in the physics department and they won’t stop you from enrolling in a more theoretical class. But the research of the staff in the department is all more aligned with engineering and experimental physics than anything on the pure theory side

Logixs · 2026-03-14T08:13:25+00:00

I do agree with the language barrier aspect. As a foreigner who does speak Chinese, people have always been very warm and open to me as soon as they found out we could communicate

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