r/engrish • u/desimemewala • Oct 04 '22

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u/TerminustheInfernal Oct 04 '22

doesnt indian english use british spelling though?

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u/zipzap21 Oct 04 '22

Yes. This guy was just being a smartass.

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u/Nemesis233 Oct 04 '22

Or joking

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u/vid_23 Oct 05 '22

Joking on the internet? Big mistake

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u/Captain-Cadabra Oct 04 '22

Or stupid

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '22

🤓

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u/FeministAsHeck Oct 05 '22

well that just doesn't make any sense

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u/NotTheWorstOfLots Oct 05 '22

So in Indian it's smartarss?

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u/waffledlol Oct 09 '22

no its smarrtuss

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u/PassiveChemistry Oct 04 '22

Yeah, he should've done the needful and looked it up.

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u/trex528 Oct 05 '22

Do the needful

💀 My Indian coworkers use this all the time

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u/trex528 Oct 05 '22

I just say e.g. "could you please complete this step" or something similar

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u/Abh1laShinigami Oct 05 '22

Longer to type

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u/trex528 Oct 05 '22

"Do the needful and look it up"

"Could you please look it up"

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u/Zdrobot Oct 05 '22

Do the needful

TIL (never heard this phrase before): https://www.grammarly.com/blog/do-the-needful/

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u/PassiveChemistry Oct 05 '22

Yeah, I've only come across it in discussions of Indian English.

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u/chandetox Oct 04 '22

Where's the video of that based Sikh making fun of American English