Comments on: Hindi medium types!

By: madhat

madhat — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:42:55 +0000

I kind of have the inverse problem. I think in English all the time and I cannot read or write literature in Kannada which is supposed to be my mother tongue. I really wish I could…

By: gaddeswarup

gaddeswarup — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:12:59 +0000

I have worse problems. I studied in Telugu medium, spent half life abroad and most of the time I worked in mathematics. I find that writing in either language is difficult. Bertrand Russell has some advice:
http://www.solstice.us/russell/write.html
and there is a famous essay on writing English by the Anglo-Indian writer George Orwell. They help a bit but not with tense, punctuation etc. If one is clear about what one wants to say and writes in short sentences, it may help.

By: Vineet Kumar

Vineet Kumar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:06:39 +0000

I still gets confused with the spelling of Principle and Principal :)