LONDON, ENGLAND, March 15, 2007: A report produced by Demos, which the news release calls one of Britain’s influential think-tanks, has suggested that the English language curriculum should be modified to include Hinglish, a mix of English and Hindi words, and Chinglish, a mix of Chinese and English. Sam Jones, co-author of the report, said, “English can no longer be seen as a single language, but more as a family of languages.” However language experts have disagreed. The Queen’s English Society responded by saying, “It is important there is a standard set of English we all understand, whatever children might use in the playground or new words appear on the Internet. Schools are already having difficulty teaching standard English because of a growing international influence, and they don’t need to be further sidetracked.” So it might be awhile before pupils could be told to stop being a “badmash” and canteens might advertise “machi-chips” besides the conventional description of fish and chips as the Demos report suggested. However the news release pointed out that Hinglish is already popular on television programs such as “The Kumars at Number 42.”
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