Would you rather say the insufferably bland “He collided with my trunk” or the insanely awesome “He banged my dickey”?
Funnier lines that mark our Indianness: "I DO music". "Lets DO the dance"."Close the lights"."Cut the pencil". "Seriously funny". "Fully Empty". "Hairs are falling" and so and so on and so forth. The major credit goes to... "Please DO the needful". One fine day, it just slips out and the listener at the other end corrects us unabashedly. The feeling of having been wrong all our lives. How long have I been saying that? Who is he again, to correct me?
I passed out from college, and I passed out in college too. I gave many classes a pass and passed many classes too.
Well, as quoted by Sri Amitabh Bachan: "English is a phunny language".It gets funnier as you traverse across different states of India. A "Zimbly Owesome " for "Simply Awesome" in Kerala. "Part" becomes "fart" in Karnataka. "You" is "Ewww" in Bihar. In Andhra, a "Biscuit" can be "Biscuitaaan". In Bengal, everything sounds like Roshogolla, like "Shobway" for "Subway". "Tart" for "Start" in Odisha. "Binness" for "Business" in Punjab.
Languages change over time. Healthy, living languages change a lot over time. They ebb and flow and morph and transmogrify. If we want to smirk at someone asking us for our “good name”, laugh at someone telling us sheepishly that “sleep is coming” and wallow in the pedantic preference for “years ago” over “years back”, we are just being insufferable douchebags. When William Blake rhymes “Aye” with “symmetry”, it’s acceptable because it’s um..William Blake and not some poor bloke with vernacular language medium education from a small town in India? How many conventions of grammar do you think Shakespeare broke when writing Hamlet? Or is poetic license not allowed for unlicensed poets?
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Hence, if the English language has evolved to the likes of STFU, WTF, WTH, PHAT, BFF, LOL, LMAO, ROFL, ROFLMAO, and many more from the Gen XYZ's social network dictionary, we can as well spare the mother tongue influenced diction.
On that note...TTYL..... XOXO :)
On that note...TTYL..... XOXO :)
But what is your grudge against the boss asking you to do the needful, although you may call her archaic. I am no neanderthal too and would prefer to take care of the task rather than doing the needful. But in a free country it is needless to reprimand somebody for doing the needful :P
ReplyDeleteBut I am on-board whatever else you are talking about. I too feel uneasy when someone 'prepones' the flight even though preponing is allowed by the OALD these days. I too lose my cool when somebody "looses" his mind. But hopefully I would become more accommodating with time and not allow these things to 'pain my head'.
"Pain my head"...cutest euphemism till date :P
ReplyDeleteMy grudge is not against the ones who "do the needful"...its about snobbishness in general where the likes of Shakespeare and William Blake have been spared of "grammatical errors" but not the same for others.
That makes me think...in a way I am also being snooty!...ummm...errr...WTH!
Masters of any art are never to be questioned for not following the basics. Since they are the masters, they are so skillful in the art that you would willingly want to ignore unimportant stuff to be able to soak in the grandeur of the masterpieces they conjure up. No such luck for the lesser mortals. That reminds me, when are you unraveling your masterpiece in your preferred art form? :P
ReplyDeleteThis is injustice meted out to the masses in the name of literature :P
ReplyDeleteAgree auto spell correct and grammar correct options were not available THEN (still, debatable)...BTW, what masterpiece are we talking about here...I am completely oblivious of the existence of any such capacity :/
Every artist has a masterpiece. You will have one too.
ReplyDeleteAmen! hope before next birth :P
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