When Mistakes Make Sense
It's been a while since i wrote something. Big Deal huh? I gave a long holiday to whatever creativity I had, with impress-in-the-new-job week days, roam-around saturdays and do-nothing-lie-around-half naked sundays.
So, when i started typing without actually knowing what to write about, i was making a lot of typos.
So, I thought, why not write about typos. Thats something that everyone reading this could relate to. Everybody makes ishpelling mishtakes. No big deal. But the nature of the mistakes and the situation could make it a more sensitive issue.
First, Why would you make a spelling mistake, when you have a spell check in all the Office Applications? I, for example, turn off the spell check, mostly because I hate those irritating red lines and I hate Word telling me how to spell my own name.
My dear Microsoft word, I dont care where you came from, please shut it. Dont be a smart ass and get on my nerve. My problem with typos, even with the spell check on, is that even my mistakes make sense and fool the spell check. You see when mistakes make sense, it aint a mistake no more (justified my title!).
MS-word! if you cant see me omitting 'l' in public and 'f' in shift and if you cant prompt me when I type 'o' instead 'l' in blobs, something is wrong with you!
And speaking about the sensitivity of your typos, I once sent an email to a person by name Indar Bansal, but muffed it up by addressing him as Bandar Insal. And Word, thanks for missing to catch that. Were you expecting me to tell you that I dont speak hindi?
On a serious note, I feel that not only the spelling, but also our grammar and vocabulary have been seriously affected by the internet jargon. Emails, chat rooms, ebonics and now the blog world - haven't they contaminated the command(!!) we had on the English language?
I get really irritated with emails or messages, that are so full of abbreviations. And I am taking a stand now, to use the language as it was intended, as much as I can or as much I know. I would appreciate if my fellow bloggers spare a thought on it.
So, when i started typing without actually knowing what to write about, i was making a lot of typos.
So, I thought, why not write about typos. Thats something that everyone reading this could relate to. Everybody makes ishpelling mishtakes. No big deal. But the nature of the mistakes and the situation could make it a more sensitive issue.
First, Why would you make a spelling mistake, when you have a spell check in all the Office Applications? I, for example, turn off the spell check, mostly because I hate those irritating red lines and I hate Word telling me how to spell my own name.
My dear Microsoft word, I dont care where you came from, please shut it. Dont be a smart ass and get on my nerve. My problem with typos, even with the spell check on, is that even my mistakes make sense and fool the spell check. You see when mistakes make sense, it aint a mistake no more (justified my title!).
MS-word! if you cant see me omitting 'l' in public and 'f' in shift and if you cant prompt me when I type 'o' instead 'l' in blobs, something is wrong with you!
And speaking about the sensitivity of your typos, I once sent an email to a person by name Indar Bansal, but muffed it up by addressing him as Bandar Insal. And Word, thanks for missing to catch that. Were you expecting me to tell you that I dont speak hindi?
On a serious note, I feel that not only the spelling, but also our grammar and vocabulary have been seriously affected by the internet jargon. Emails, chat rooms, ebonics and now the blog world - haven't they contaminated the command(!!) we had on the English language?
I get really irritated with emails or messages, that are so full of abbreviations. And I am taking a stand now, to use the language as it was intended, as much as I can or as much I know. I would appreciate if my fellow bloggers spare a thought on it.
posted by Arm Pitt at 1:29 PM
5 Comments:
One after a long break uh?? I still remember when u told me about the Bandar .. thing.. lol..
Oops no abbreviations... Laughing out loud...
Cheers
I have 2 comments to make, Ram:
1. I miss the suspense, story, mystery, charm, crispness,exoticism (non-mundaneness) which your previous blogs posessed. If I remember clearly you even wrote an entry on this.
2. As much as I like Black and as colorful BLACK can be, the BLACK background gives your blog the doomed appearance. May be I am too conservative.
Sorry I dont intend to ridicule. I think you write great otherwise.
Hope you're having fun in LA.
yo tiya! thanks for the comments and dont feel sorry, i appreciate your honest criticism. keep guiding me.
and i dont know if my previous blogs had any charm, but if it did, thanks.
and btw I thought 'Arm' was a smart way of jumbling my name and concealing my identity. u spilled the beans!
oops sorry about spilling the beans..
this background looks much better :)
take care.
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