This is what I say when I feel totally flabbergasted........I’m sure you must be wondering what I get so flabbergasted about…I’ll tell you my friends, its nothing but eNgLiSh………..!
Dont shoot up ur eyebrows like that....its true.....!
It’s always been a subject which boosted my final percentage all through my school years...... It was by fate that I took up English as my major subject for my bachelor’s degree, but I couldn’t excel in using the language very effectively… a friend of mine, had the gift of using her language in a brilliant way (by now, you should’ve known it’s you Dhanya)….Her sentence constructions, vocabulary, method of writing anything in a very sophisticated manner was…sorry IS really amazing…!
This language drives me crazy whenever I open my thesaurus…Almost every single word there in that book, has a minimum of 10 different synonyms and most of the times one word cannot be replaced by another, due to the fact that no word means the same…..! Asked to write anything, I can only write the way I think….that is, I write whatever runs through my mind at that instant and do not think of any other word other than the ones I use in my day-to-day language…!
I could never think of the words my friends use in their essays n most of the times I wouldn’t even know such a word existed…! I always though English was the easiest language and I always could do well in that subject but college open my tightly shut eyes about how copious and heterogenous it is (as C. L. Wrenn calls it n so it is).
Phew……! This language can blow the air outta anyone, if it was challenged with….I don think even, ’Italian stallion rocky’ would be able to win over…..! It is the world champion…..!
I should tell u guys, that I thought I would be called a COXCOMB if I used a high funda language in school so I never took an attempt to learn new words n even if I did learn, I never used it n I so forgot it eventually or as mostly in my case-instantaneously…But I realized that I was only being a total…. …….ADDLE-BRAIN...BERSERK…CHUMP…DOLTISH…AN EASY MARK…FUTILE…GULLIBLE…HALFWIT…INNOCUOUS…JEJUNE…KOOKY…LUDICROUS…MORON…NINCOMPOOP…OAF…PUERILE…QUOZ…RASH…SHTICK…TWIT…UNDERWIT…VAPID…WOD.XEROTIC…YO-YO…ZERO….by not learning the language properly n making use of its vastness…(I really really regret it now…but mending my ways is posing a harder problem than I thought, as my brains have started to rust due to lack of usage of words n they refuse to absorb new words quickly…!)
Phew…..!Lemme tell u something…I did have to do a lotta research to find these words…and only after typing it down I realized I’d never-ever-forever use them in my life, unless required in a stage which might be like, say…saving a life.
Such being the state of me, I always thought that writing elegantly was not my piece of cake, but still end up beginning my career in that field…!(god bless me!!!)But English being the language of the world(as I cal it),it is the only medium thru which we can communicate to majority of the world and every literate human being (acorse the 1 alive)on its surface…!
Now…now….! Can anyone tell me why I wasted so much time writing about English while I don prefer writin much n think that this language is hard to handle… Coming to think of it, the time I spent doing the research for this eassay is much higher than the ones I’ve spent on my college assignments as well..!
Hmmm…..
But, why???
This is a question I think I’ll never be able to answer………!
Luv
priya
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6 comments:
First things first...
Never say this so-called friend of yours used language in a brilliant way (coz u and i knw wat she really was, with u teachin her the meanings of many words which she hardly knew before(?!))
and the problem with u priya is... u ve had me telling this to u umpty no. of times... u write as u wud speak... sometimes even worse!
jus understand this thing.. writin and speakin are two diff things.. though u might want to write as u speak sometimes.. tis not agreeable all d time...
and never say u cant do somethin.. come to think of it.. most of the time... tis is just a mind block!
PS - did u check d meaning of all d words dat u ve used? i wud check them again if i were u ;-)
hey sweetu.. come on.. u can always improve ur english n let me tell u.. u r not bad at all.. just that u never try things.. u r happy with wat evr u have, be it life or language.. he he he.. anyways.. a job well done!!! i always go with d opinion of my intimate mistress of sarcasm ;-p who said that u should start thinkin that u r capable of doin everythin.. :-p
luv,
shru..
Hi alien and the Mistress of Sarcasm Senior (MSS)... (after all, i had the privilege of learning from the best in practice!!)
U alien.. jus keep on listenin to the productive comments u get and go abt improvin.. im sure this job ll help u improve...
And U MSS... Thought u ll let me rest in peace... but this proves my assumptions are wrong and u still are devilishly active... fine.. after all.. u always have this habit of defeating my assumptions, havent ya!!
Miss.Incorrigible!
hmmm ..... i think its gr8 u write with words so simple.....i this way as it is easier to relate to and i dont need a dictionary to understand ur blog.
if u can say things in a simple way wat more do u want!!!!!!!!!
hi ya
Idid leave a comment earlier ...wondering why it isnt published...
i luv this way of writing...clean,simple,easy to grasp...
Good going...
Nirmala
OMG...ur english...seesh..n u think tat i've got gud english..no..think again...u raack gal...good post...n dont undermine urself..u r also equally good...
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