Bad english of our Times

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!!