In 2006, Washington Times put a story that according to UN, 70% Indian women face domestic violence. The truth is, UN never conducted a study which established this fact.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david38.htm

Your borderline accusation is borderline proof-positive of the opening and concluding riffs of my essay, that many Indians will go out of their way to construe an insult from the perfectly benign where foreigners are involved, no?

Sadly, you quote the remark which borderline upsets you with borderline dishonesty, omitting these lines: “[W]hat professional copy writer would follow the word ‘restricted’ with the redundant word ‘only’? One in India, only.”

You may have only borderline awareness that English usage differs among Anglophone countries. Indian English carries a colloquialism not found in American English, but very much found on the banner; namely, the redundant or extraneous use of the word “only”. This thought was conveyed, with a degree of humor and subtlety you will surely regard as borderline, in the punchline: “One in India, only.”

The “clumsiness of the language” was to reproduce spoken, regional idiom in written text trying to cop an attitude of internationalism and snobishness.

I hope I didn’t insult your intelligence with this painstaking exegesis of the obvious; but you seemed borderline clueless and I thought this might help.

MBJ

i am asking why did they use such long confusing sentence in their ad if they could have done it in a simple line!

You seem to be implying that Indians are clumsy in creating ad copy compared to Americans. That’s borderline racist, no?

It idiotic to make us act blase’ about the whole thing by laying it at some vague notions of insecurity or imposition of western cultural hegemony.

These are not the 80’s or 90’s and the first decade of 2000 is ending.
Information is freely available and accesible at least in the urban setup.

So we do have a fair idea what is western culture ,what to imbibe and what not to.

The days are fast going when Indians just lined for stuff because it has a fancy sounding name.

Guys n Gal are extremely aware of the choice they are to exercise and make.

I for one am never going to have hagan whatever.

But in this case, I have to say, as a business you are TOTALLY responsible for your promotional ideas and the words you use in them. If you think something like this is alright, imagine this- Tomorrow every other company gets a “free pass” under the name of “mis-communication” and “difficulty with language”. They do what they want and later “apologize” with a “We’re sorry the people who made these banners are illiterate and therefore don’t know what they’re doing.” Besides proving the phrase-”second grade men hire third grade men”, there is a world of wrong with this.

Think about it. Does my poor knowledge of any language give me a free pass to “accidentally” call you an idiot or something and get away with it? Then why should they?