Not to mention restaurants and cinema halls. Though I'm yet to find an instance where it's been for better - it only ever annoys the hell out of me.

I am suspicious when people err in their own favor, and in this case OP's slip, if that's what it was, made AI look more ridiculous. I don't know how obvious it is to everyone that OP meant lemonade - it wasn't to Neltron in post #7.

Why not? You are late to the party, but we already started that fun by flaming the pilot's English in post #1. :)

I have been to a few events that were so excruciatingly boring that I was grateful to watch children play. :) Mostly, however, I agree with you. As one poet said of the children running around during his poetry reading, "It is true that these children are our nation's future, but why are they ruining my present?"

At least they are meaty. Cockroaches are just crunchy. :D

Just to set things straight - out here in India, lemon juice is a much more common term than 'lemonade', to mean the same thing - lemons squeezed into water, sugar and/or salt added, etc etc.

On the contrary, it's quite entertaining. To hear someone complain about the pilot's English yet using "lemon juice" themselves is quite hilarious. I am sorry if you find it boring you are not compelled to laugh at it.

What's really boring is when people miss clues in a rant
that give a very good indication of how credible their claim/rant is.

Going to a children's party, is one I can think of. ;)

^

It maybe among some quarters. I was born and raised in India too. Lemon juice and lemonade have always been two distinct things to me. Only one of them is a beverage.
It appears to be a common term among those who do not know the distinction, but want to make fun of others. ;)

-What he said

Totally agree. Have a look at the thread "Got infant, gonna pay" thread on the Cathay forum. Some mighty unhappy people over there on the same topic:eek:

You guys are full of it - another Indian habit of talking hot air to score a point, with no regard for the facts? :D Here in India, or there in India, "lemon juice" and "lemonade" are different things. The nearest expression from accepted Indian English would be "sweet lime" for "musammi", but the qualifier sweet is always there.

Of course, many people speak and write bad English, Indians and others, but that is a different matter. Presumably someone flaming "a Bengali chap" airline pilot's English is not among them.

Let me be absolutely clear that I am not criticizing OP for using "bad" English. After all, this is an Internet forum and there is no bad English here---as long as we speak for ourselves and do not put words in someone else's mouth to make them look ridiculous.

I cannot resist adding that Sweet Lime juice is the most refreshing drink ever!

Whenever i go to India, i cannot get enough of it. Strangely its an Indian phenomenon, ive yet to see it replicated in any other country.

That's fine if it's not in a public place where it invades other peoples' privacy. If it is in a park or at someone's house, that could be enjoyable. I'm not sure I'd appreciate someone hosting a party in a narrow metal tube 36000 ft up in the air.

As a kid I often spent vacations in the small town of my maternal grandparents. One of the neighbors owned a juice stand and as kids we got free juice, free fruit pulp, etc. We also watched some tricks of the trade. One was to soak fruits overnight in slightly-sugary water. This wasn't necessary with sugarcane of course, :D but worked wonders with oranges and musammi's: no surprise others can't duplicate that taste anywhere else!

Next to fresh lime soda I'd say.:rolleyes: