i am an engg, i know hinglish
As per my experience, if you know tit bits of the funny language you can be an engineer. There are innumerable proofs to support the clause. Like using a verbose sentence makes the examiner feel that yes it ought to be right. There have been many persons who have been fooling around this from last 4 year. There are students who in spite of working hard, knowing everything related but lacking command over the language have poorer result than the others.
The same was with the placement scenario. Few people got better placement than their peers just because of their better command over the language. Its good if you require a marketing profile person who could be a salesman for you. On the other side if one requires somebody for core jobs then its injustice to eliminate a person on the basis of G.D. you got to know him better. Coming from the metros, with worst possible entrance academics and still they got to be better than you just because of foolish E. This has shown the way communication skill has taken a centre stage of all academic affairs. Still we boast of our educative talent pool. Its engineering and not arts or philosophy we are talking about.
There have been many instances within an institute of national importance. One can know the standards when a lab assistant says
“ touch tar” (wire in electrical lab).
However there are other well renowned colleges also where the medium of interaction is the local language. Its gibberish and encrypted for people from other state. My brother suffered from such problem in initial years of engineering. Like all Humans, the most flexible of all species he adjusted himself as per circumstances.
One of the hilarious VIVA VOCE (every v-v has been hilarious till now as lesser mortals like us rarely utter a word on the other side of the table) incident of workshop –
What could one answer when one hears the questions like:
Job the name?
Tool the name? etc
Other best surprising moments:
I will finish you all, next Monday?
(means syllabus would be completed before Monday)
This will move on dono side? ( dono means both)
During oath taking ceremony of annual sports -- do hajar nine ( 2009)
There are others with enormous teaching experience and yet use incorrect spelling for words like discover. A boy got poor grades in the workshop as he could barely understand the question asked in Hindi (he was from southern part of the country). If u know how to write (better) in English u could easily pass more than half of the subjects, fooling the professor.
Thus we could easily claim that ENGLISH is directly proportional to engineering. From whatever background you are if you know how to write in the funny language, you ought to be an engineer. A great mockery of our education system. Hope the system gets improved quickly. We need to bring some immediate changes.
Input a few instances from your memory. I am sure even u must have experienced something like this.
