From Christina Paulston re Hinglish:

Harold F. Schiffman haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Sat Oct 23 15:35:03 UTC 2004


    Re Hinglish. 2 points. Poppycock is from Dutch, meaning originally "soft
shit", one of the very few (cf to the romance lges) words derived from Latin
caca in English -  Smith is wrong.
    Other point. Hindi English sticks with you because it is witty, clever,
and jokingly, cleverly down-putting, a wonderful genre of professional
Indians (the only ones I know) - and not only because it is used in
technology.
    Christina



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