Re:You mean *your* communication skills. (Score 2)

This whole discussion is quite amusing. I am from India, briefly lived in Bangalore, (which seems to be the Death Star as far as some members of this board are concerned) and am not on an H1B. There, I've got that out of the way. Why this disc. is amusing to me, is because I have had to trim my normal English vocabulary *considerably* to make myself understood in normal situations in this country. I have to keep reminding my wife that most of the English she uses will only elicit a "What?" from most of the people we meet and speak to in daily conversation - and that includes college graduates and "skilled engineers" who have grown up in the American education system. We get asked if we're from England ... how's that for using English? IMHO, the dumbing down of the American education system is continuing rapidly - when there are large numbers of citizens of this country, whose only claim to communication skills is a severely shrunken vocbulary of English, I think it's time to stop saying "Screw the immigrants because they don't speak English". And since I also want to make the point that English=Education is a flawed equation, I'd end with an anecdote about how my wife met an engineer, educated in the US, who had no idea where London was on the map. Unless, of course, you redefine education to encompass nothing outside the United States. That is exactly the kind of the thinking the Asian economies want you to indulge in, while they learn to do your jobs better than you.