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Re:Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018 by dimino on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:47AM (#13205279)
I believe it's based in India, so probably people who don't speak English natively.
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Re:Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018 by nkkollaw on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:02AM (#13205326)
I thought they did speak English natively in India...

Regardless, if you don't know basic English grammar you shouldn't be a writer. I'm Italian and even I can catch an error like that.

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Re:Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018 by anexprogrammer on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:08AM (#13205344)
It's their offical language, along with Hindi. Many of the Indians I've known have a much better formal command of the language than many native English! Including myself.
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Re:Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018 by dimino on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:09AM (#13205351)
Making a language "official" doesn't make it your native language, unfortunately.
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Re:Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018 by anexprogrammer on Sunday December 18, 2016 @03:37PM (#13207486)
Oh FFS.

To stay on point it's a matter of ignorance not nativity. The article is crap not because it is Indian, which is irrelevant, but because the domain is a minimal effort blog that has no place on HN.

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Re:Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018 by dimino on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:05PM (#13208752)
I'm sorry but that simply isn't true. Pretending like the English literacy rate in India isn't 12% is silly and false.
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