"Want to join legal profession!"
EAS, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
So stated the advertisement for the British School of Law (no doubt it was set up by a group of sycophantic anglophiles) on Wednesday, 27th August 2003. What strikes one about the above statement is the poor grammar of the person who drafted the advertisement. For starters it's missing the all-important article "the" and then of course there is the inappropriate use of the exclamation mark. And this is an institution which claims to offer "UK courses". And then it boasts of an "Affluent Library". Who had heard before the word "affluent" being used in connection with a library? The British School of Law did just that. My best guess is that they had originally thought of "rich library" and used a thesaurus to arrive at "affluent". I checked the thesaurus myself and thank God that they had not opted for "Well-to-do Library". And its not just the British School of Law, there are many other institutions with the same problem. In most of these institutions the teachers will not be able to string two words of English together without making a grammatical error. One might think that I am going a bit too far in bashing an advertisement, but if you go to the High Court nowadays poor standard of English is all too obvious. Let alone pronunciation, many lawyers will have problems constructing a whole sentence in English. One thing is sure, the British School of Law shall be a healthy breeder of such lawyers.
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