David Crystal - What are your views on the trajectory of Indian English?

[rahulmdev]

Prof Crystal is wrong in estimating the number of English speaking Indians. Hugely and most surprisingly wrong for an acknowledged global authority on English. There are no accurate numbers but the most sensible estimates vary between 1% to 5% of 1.2 billion population. That would be between say 20 to 50 million at the most. And he is talking of one third, 300-400 million English speakers. One wonders where did he get that, and why?

[Bloodykiller2]

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[sbelanto]

National languages status's change over time. This is why we need a truly neutral, nonnational language like Esperanto which doesn't come from any particular country or ethnic group, which was designed first and foremost as an international language right from its inception.