Yeah, you could say that :)

I haven't? Darn, I guess all those years of education in the United States have come to naught (yes dear boy, other people may also have been educated in the USA :)).

I think the correct usage in today's world is "English (US)". At least that's what the MS Word spell-check advises.

I never said that you haven't been educated in the USA. I read a biography that somebody put up on some website a while back, and I do vaguely remember that you have a degree from the US... Some university down South.. Georgia Tech, was it?

However, your English doesn't really sound Southern when you write on FT... Just like my English isn't exactly Bostonian English.. In the time since I've moved to India, I can already see a tangible difference in the way I speak...

Indian food on intl flights is not the only marker of quality of an airline.
AA is a good airline with a great loyalty program managed miserably.
AI is a bad airline and program with worse staff and management. YMMV.

I agree, Indian food is not the only marker. It is a marker where AI happens to excel, but there are other markers too. Such as the excellent staff (in my experience), the excellent loyalty program, and reliable service on the routes that I fly (in fact, AI is reasonably reliable all around - 80+% on-time rating so far this month, not bad for India...)
So YMMV indeed.

I'll forgive your transgression of calling Georgia Tech a "university" (it's Georgia INSTITUTE of Technology for the record! :p) since you seem to have a good memory!

What does "Southern" English sound like anyway? Should I be punctuating my posts with "y'all" and "yee-haw"?

OT - when I first started at Georgia Tech, all international students had to sit an English test to determine our level of proficiency. Despite a 670 TOEFL score (99.9 percentile) and a 710 SAT Verbal (98 percentile), I was deemed to be "severely deficient" and had to attend an entire year of ESL classes. Our ESL class consisted primarily of Indians and Pakistanis, with a handful of South Africans and even two Brits (how an institute in Georgia could force someone from Britain into an English as a Second Language course was an irony lost on them). It coincided with the 1996 Cricket World Cup. Needless to say, it was a fun class. :D

+1 ^

Good to know :) No, although it would be awfully funny if you did... I don't know how to explain what Southern English sounds like - it's just that when I hear something written in a particular way, I think "Oh that person is from the South, or India, or somewhere else*
People speak English differently in different places obviously :)
:D

Although "dear boy" is a quintessentially British phrase in my book :D

for the umpteenth time, its not my plan....

Sorry, I wrote this as a joke a long time ago (when you first discussed it). I realized it wasn't cool to pick on a fellow board member and have not mentioned the plan since.

no worries....:)

Well, those of us who were educated in different schools in more than one country, lived, worked in many countries , are multilingual....this mixing of quintessential expressions are unavoidable ;)

What is Keyser's plan by the way?

1) It is not Keyser's plan. It was Vijay Mallya's plan, that Keyser happened to know about.

2) It is entirely unclear what the plan is/was. The plan may have never been implemented, it may have happened and we don't realize it, it may happen soon.