Ominous signs for Inglish!!

Driving to work this morning I saw this catchy advertisement on one of Chennai's bus shelters, of two girls cuddling a nice looking guy with a large tattoo on his arm with the alphabet S emblazoned on his arm and the caption read 'Seema = S = Sheila' - I didn't quite get it so I scanned the ad for more info and there it was the message - 'Now SMS on a diet, pay per character'!! This was from Docomo the Japanese GSM player who have tied up with Tata Indicom to offer GSM services in India.

Even without these inducements we have a hard time trying to figure out the SMS lingo (technical term is textese!) of kids and some adults but now with a 'pay per character' option in the pipeline me thinks texting is going to get awfully cryptic!! You may well need to carry along a SMS dictionary to figure out some of those incredibly cryptic messages that land on your mobile in future!! Hang on a tick, I just discovered a site which provides exactly this service - www.smsdictionary.co.uk!!!






Indian English, or Inglish, will never be the same again! Don't know whether to cry or smile at this prospect!!!