Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Dgradation of Moi Grmr

The degradation of my grammatical skills(???If I had any) has been primarily due to the SMS culture we are in.I don't the remember the time since I wrote a grammatically correct sentence with all the punctuations,exclamations and pauses which merit for a good sentence.(Hopefully this sentence qualifies to be one).Why are we like this??Why did our so called English reduce to that of a language of smileys.Even as I write this post,Iam filled with doubts about the grammatical accuracy of the sentence which I wrote last.Did i miss a comma,did I screw up the preposition or did I simply miss it totally??Its not that Iam obsessed with grammar or anything but I have a feeling that the language is being degraded due to the laziness of our generation.

Another totally conflicting view point is that language is a tool of communication which deserves only the amount of respect we decide to give it.Language is not something which is decided by the intellectuals who speak them but the common people or the majority of us who speak it.If majority of the people,throughout the course of history have screwed up a word or used a wrong grammatical expression,then we must be allowed to use it by all means..
eg-
Moi-Knock! Knock!
Shakespeare- Who is it?
Moi-It is Me!!
Shakespeare-Dude..The sentence is grammatically wrong..It should be "It is I" and not "It is me"
Moi-Screw u ...I make my own rules...

If you could understand what I meant,does the rule really matter??




Just a random thought...

5 comments:

  1. When you say "Moi" instead of "My", that is "o" (M+O) instead of "a" (M+A), this is precisely Bengali ...

    Just recall how our names got screwed by de Bengali profs ... Mohes, Romakrissnan .. Remember ..

    Infact, they call Satyajit "Ray" as Satyajit "Roy"..

    U r a calcutta resident some time back and I needn't explain this to you ..

    Anyways, welcome Blogger Abhishek !!!

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  2. Haha..thanks(or should i say thnks.. :P) lufu..

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  3. dude...I began writing my blog exactly on the same topic...:)..anyways nice start..keep it rolling.

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  4. Nice one.
    One more point to mention is the substitution of fullstops, commas and semicolons with '...',the habit of inserting dots between phrases.

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  5. Thanks peru for ur insights and @vamsi..it was purely unintentional:P

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