Hinglish goes global

[ronkinm]

In my experience, Hinglish is a pejorative term that picks out perceptions of "interference" affecting the pronunciation and some particularly marked grammatical constructions in the English of people whose L1 is presumed to be Hindi.
Maggie
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthea Fraser Gupta <A.F.Gupta at leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2004 3:42 pm
Subject: RE: Hinglish goes global

> Bit of a mixture of terms here....
>
> 'Hinglish' is usually used for a code-mixed variety with Hindi and
> English, which can be seen in many chat rooms, such as this extract: