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Review of reviewers!
by Rahul on Apr 24, 2005 09:59 PM

Dear Rediff,

Please try to ensure that your reviewers use correct English for their reviews. Here are a few examples of outrageous use of English.

1. "Team funnymen Boman Irani and Rajpal Yadav together and you are assured a barrel of laughs. No problem there."

Your reviewers seem to think that writing in English is the same as speaking in English, with incomplete sentences ("No problem there" is not a complete sentence in itself, though it is often used in spoken English).

2. "Yes, I blame myself. For not being able to relate. Here's why."

Why does one need to fragment a sentence into pieces when there is no need to?

3. "This papa don't preach, he's a peach."

This might sound "cool" but it is incorrect, for the reviewer has his singulars and plurals mixed up!

Websites and web portals can use good English and be "cool" at the same time. BBC's website is an instance of the above.

Rediff, please have a periodic review of your reviewers. It is about time you did a quality check.

Rahul

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