babu English

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  1. A variety of Indian English characterized by excessive formality, politeness, ornamentation, and an indirect manner of communication. India,uncountable
    — Despite the innocuous-sounding claim that the purpose of his article was ‘to provide a few notes on the characteristics of English used to-day by the educated Indian’ (Goffin 1934: 20), Goffin’s text is very much in the ‘Babu English’ tradition, that is, it derides the way in which Indians used English.

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