What is it with indian people and "today morning"

Never "this morning". It's always "today morning". I used to thing they were saying "tuesday morning".

And "that should be perfect" instead of "that will be fine" or whatever. Actually substituting 'should' for 'will' happens quite a bit, and can be confusing at first.

Is it a british thing?

BTW all the indians I deal with on a daily basis are super smart scientists and engineers, or at least very well educated. So they actually communicate extremely effectively. I'm just commenting on the quirkiness.

No, it's an Indian thing.

  On 12/9/2009 at 6:39 AM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

Never "this morning". It's always "today morning". I used to thing they were saying "tuesday morning".

 

And "that should be perfect" instead of "that will be fine" or whatever. Actually substituting 'should' for 'will' happens quite a bit, and can be confusing at first.

 

Is it a british thing?

 

BTW all the indians I deal with on a daily basis are super smart scientists and engineers, or at least very well educated. So they actually communicate extremely effectively. I'm just commenting on the quirkiness.

I guess we are just a bit too optimistic.

  On 12/9/2009 at 7:26 AM, beatfanatic said:

  On 12/9/2009 at 6:39 AM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

Never "this morning". It's always "today morning". I used to thing they were saying "tuesday morning".

 

And "that should be perfect" instead of "that will be fine" or whatever. Actually substituting 'should' for 'will' happens quite a bit, and can be confusing at first.

 

Is it a british thing?

 

BTW all the indians I deal with on a daily basis are super smart scientists and engineers, or at least very well educated. So they actually communicate extremely effectively. I'm just commenting on the quirkiness.

 

I guess we are just a bit too hispanic

 

  On 12/9/2009 at 7:34 AM, abusivegeorge said:

  On 12/9/2009 at 7:26 AM, beatfanatic said:

  On 12/9/2009 at 6:39 AM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

Never "this morning". It's always "today morning". I used to thing they were saying "tuesday morning".

 

And "that should be perfect" instead of "that will be fine" or whatever. Actually substituting 'should' for 'will' happens quite a bit, and can be confusing at first.

 

Is it a british thing?

 

BTW all the indians I deal with on a daily basis are super smart scientists and engineers, or at least very well educated. So they actually communicate extremely effectively. I'm just commenting on the quirkiness.

 

I guess we are just a bit too hispanic

 

maderchod...

idiomatic expressions, Indian language

i could care less to be honest. That's right.. i could care less about this particular topic.

Not just an Indian thing. Lots of ESL speakers make that mistake.

indians are fucking awesome. especially sikhs. you're not a real man until you're old, sikh, and have a bushy moustache. they exist at the pinnacle of human existence.

it makes perfect sense from a langage construction standpoint. you have yesterday, today, and tomorrow. yesterday morning, today morning, and tomorrow morning. the real quirkiness lies in how saying "today morning" can be perceived as a mistake.

i like how they say database

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it makes perfect sense from a langage construction standpoint. you have yesterday, today, and tomorrow. yesterday morning, today morning, and tomorrow morning. the real quirkiness lies in how saying "today morning" can be perceived as a mistake.

Nice one!

One thing that always quirked me about the english language is that you don't have any simpler word or phrase for the day after tomorrow.

been thinking about this a little bit. what does "today" mean exactly and is it perfectly analogous with yesterday and tomorrow? it has multiple meanings. yesterday and tomorrow refer to 24 hour periods. today can refer to the current 24 hour day as well but more often than not, it only represents the daylight portion of the day, because tonight is the antonym of today. today night sounds like an oxymoron. should there be a tomorning? but we have no issues saying this evening. t'evening would open a separate can of worms (are we contracting the or to?). and what does the prefix "to" mean anyway? it implies a future tense. i think given all of this context, which is inherently understood by EFLs, saying "this" morning makes the most sense.

  On 12/9/2009 at 6:06 PM, Fred McGriff said:

it makes perfect sense from a langage construction standpoint. you have yesterday, today, and tomorrow. yesterday morning, today morning, and tomorrow morning. the real quirkiness lies in how saying "today morning" can be perceived as a mistake.

It's english man. I know they're not "making a mistake".

  On 12/9/2009 at 6:43 PM, chimera slot mom said:

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it makes perfect sense from a langage construction standpoint. you have yesterday, today, and tomorrow. yesterday morning, today morning, and tomorrow morning. the real quirkiness lies in how saying "today morning" can be perceived as a mistake.

 

Nice one!

 

One thing that always quirked me about the english language is that you don't have any simpler word or phrase for the day after tomorrow.

twomorrow.

  On 12/9/2009 at 5:08 PM, Rambo said:

i could care less to be honest. That's right.. i could care less about this particular topic.

Yeah, well. I'm just saying.

  On 12/9/2009 at 5:59 PM, chenGOD said:

Not just an Indian thing. Lots of ESL speakers make that mistake.

Please do the needful.

  On 12/9/2009 at 9:48 PM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

 

  On 12/9/2009 at 5:08 PM, Rambo said:

i could care less to be honest. That's right.. i could care less about this particular topic.

 

Yeah, well. I'm just saying.

you don't even know do you? You have angered me so much i cant even breathe

(unless you're playing along, in which case i'm fine)

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

couldn't care less

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man jailed for saying "today morning"

  On 12/10/2009 at 8:19 PM, oscillik said:

couldn't care less

could care less

aluminium

aluminum

colour

color

laser

lazer

Aphex Twin

The Tuss

Boards of Canada

Religious Cult

i like americas use of Z. I've always been in favour of that.