english teachers

this comes a little late in response to our education minister's point on the perceived decline in english, the could-be-better language proficiency of local teachers, the hiring of native english speakers, and j devan's perceptive note that the elder devan and others of his time spoke and wrote a much more perfect english despite not having gone to the uni: standards have declined even in the last ten years among the young people i've come in contact with, much less across generations; the supposedly more adept users of the language - teachers, broadcast and print journalists - display a level of usage more cringeworthy precisely because they are what should be our remaining bastions.

more on this tomorrow.