What ... ???

The English language (in its many renditions and accents) is quite prevalent in Dubai, almost more so than Arabic, much to the chagrin of the Emiratis. There are many non-English speaking nationalities all trying to communicate in a language that is not their first and many are "self taught". We have an Italian Engineer who went to Ireland to learn English - that's a unique accent! The Hindu-English combination is sometimes referred to as "Hing-lish".

I have been tasked at work with organizing and filing our product library. I had a visit last week from a supplier of acrylic products, two Indian sales reps introduced their products, samples and portfolio and their presentation included a letter of introduction:

"We request you to kindly let us have your enquiries to enable us to submit the product catalogues and samples to participate in your future creations and tenders."

Huh?

To their credit, it must be difficult to do business (especially sales!) in a language that is not their native tongue so ya gotta cut them some slack.