I just received the link to an Economic Times article from a colleague. It was one of those forwards that intermittently drop into the mail box with “Check this out” or “Nice Read” as the subject.

Normally I would’ve let it pass. However, these days, anything from The Economic Times is a good read due to its fictional content. So I went through the article, titled ‘Why I want to marry a techie‘.

I realized that alongwith the veracity of the content, even the quality of the language of the content has taken a nose-dive in recent times. I do not want to comment on the subject matter of the article (which, I think, is quite anachronistic). Only its language!

The H1-B holder techie from the US is considered to be a catch by the girls’ parents. Techies in India fair equally well on the marriage charts.

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The idea of someone working for computers was considered instable by quite a few people.

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And obviously, if they can support such a lifestyle themselves they will give it to the spouse also.

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Ya, most of the tech pros are workaholics.

[emphasis mine]

You might think I’m being a language Nazi here. But then, I have not nitpicked every grammatical flaw in the article. Only the ones I felt were too glaring to ignore. Moreover, the tone of the article is overly colloquial and does not befit publication in a national financial newspaper (It’s a different matter altogether that we’re talking about the salmon pink coloured dishrag). My high school English teacher would’ve probably torn this article to shreds!

I wonder what new low are the Times Group newspapers going to touch next!!

Has the Bangalore party ended? Well, Infy does not seem to think so. It plans to build a new 300 acre campus in the city. But warns that it would not go ahead with those plans if land was not made available to them.

Meanwhile, outsourced work continues to pour into Bangalore.

Related link: Bangalore Burnout