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Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
9/07/2010
Linguistic Overtures
Noun and a verb as anagrams - proof - see the two end-letter reversal in the word
9/02/2010
Linguistic Overtures
This one is titled "Musically yours". Well, self explanatory-anagrammatic five letter words presented below -
Till its done well "Notes" and "Tones" are great. If not, all I saw was a "Stone".
Its like this cryptic world view of words.
6/24/2010
What's the difference ?
What is the difference between
Denial
Apathy / Indifference
Oblivious
Feign
I am really confused here reading about anosognosia (Errol Morris in NYT), a beautiful line comes by -
"Patients that are amnesic don’t know they are amnesic. " (From here)
4/02/2010
11/17/2008
Linguistic overtures - reloaded
Presenting the linguistic overtures, the longitudinal collections. At the behest of a cynic, here it goes, the time warped collection of tilted view of words.
And they say the problem with the devil was that - "Even after reading it backwards it lived"
It's very puzzling to see two words describing the same action, having different connotations but the same letters just rearranged. I need not explain, but see the difference between -
Two difficult words with the same letters but very different consequences for our world, today. How a flip can make something so dangerous?
Gateway = Getaway (flipped the three letters in between, and backwards)
Collection 1 - "Around the world"
Saluting the spirit of obsession - "Lust is contained fully in being a slut"
And they say the problem with the devil was that - "Even after reading it backwards it lived"
Devil and lived
Infact it goes a little inside as well, evil when prodded backwards is live
It's very puzzling to see two words describing the same action, having different connotations but the same letters just rearranged. I need not explain, but see the difference between -
Veto and Vote
Two difficult words with the same letters but very different consequences for our world, today. How a flip can make something so dangerous?
S AC RED
S CA RED
S CA RED
Collection 2 - "Mathematics on english - English language quirks, mathematically speaking."
A matter of taste : State - Taste = '\0' (Null character) which means for me (stating without having a sense of taste is meaningless). I am just curious or plain "wanton"Matter - Meter = Eat
Touch taken to hurting proportions loses a "t" and becomes ouch.
Intim"id"ate - Intimate = " ID ", coincidence or Freud coined these words.
Propitiously "women ...... men" and the question to you is what fills that dots (a mathematical symbol). The answer is ">" because men on both side cancel out. Now this has some deep insights.
Collection 3 - "Quirky, related? Yes the words in English"
Gateway = Getaway (flipped the three letters in between, and backwards)
Incidentally if you have not wondered ever "Bedroom" has an interesting jumbled up word which is "Boredom".
Two unseemingly related words which are again jumbles of each other -"Teacher" and "Cheater"
"Fresh from the rakes inside - doom is also after all a mood"
Disclaimer - Some of the listed contents above are plain rants or even beyond redemption. I know or sometimes I donot know. I have just documented as they occurred in that moment. Let me know which are "Meh"!!
PS - Meh is the latest addition to the English dictionary.
"Fresh from the rakes inside - doom is also after all a mood"
Disclaimer - Some of the listed contents above are plain rants or even beyond redemption. I know or sometimes I donot know. I have just documented as they occurred in that moment. Let me know which are "Meh"!!
PS - Meh is the latest addition to the English dictionary.
11/10/2008
Linguistic Overtures
Saluting the spirit of obsession -
"Lust is contained fully in being a slut"
And they say the problem with the devil was that -
"Even after reading it backwards it lived"
"Lust is contained fully in being a slut"
And they say the problem with the devil was that -
"Even after reading it backwards it lived"
11/06/2008
Linguistic overture
Two difficult words with the same letters but very different consequences for our world, today. How a flip can make something so dangerous?
S AC RED
S CA RED
S CA RED
11/03/2008
Linguistic overture - 7
State - Taste = '\0' (Null character) which means for me (stating without having a sense of taste is meaningless)
I am just curious or plain "wanton"
I am just curious or plain "wanton"
10/22/2008
Grammar 101.2
Today I was looking for books to populate my new bookshelf after shifting to a new home. I found it really curious and oddly intriguing. In terms of the job, it is a sheer pleasure (remember I am not saying SHEAR, imagine the consequence otherwise). In my own queer way I was searching for books are reflect something about me, something about my journey through these books. However, given that I have about 100 odd books, which pretty much seems like a tyro's library, I gave up pretty soon.
What did I do? Revel in my own collection wondering "aah - I do have this book, oh - I have this book as well, now I don't have to buy it again". So I had the likes of Francis Fukuyama, "A Portrait of the Artist as a young man", "Vedic religion", Primo Levi, Andre Gide, "Tin Drum", "Remains of the Day".
Out of the dark comes this book by Lynne Truss titled "Eats, Shoots and Leaves!". What is it about? Well, for those who are familiar with the term "grammar nazi", it is about punctuation. So I am back to my own favourite topic - finding gaffes in english usage around me. Perfectly captured here by the author -
"If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of pulse ...."
"... it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement."
It is always such fun to read about "mis-punctuation". Sample this (A panda comes to a hotel, eats a sandwich, fires two gunshots in the air, and leaves. When asked by the waiter, as to why, it says, refer the wildlife manual which mentions- )
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves"
Understand? Coming to the title, presenting today's gaffe over the web -
PS - What the two words really mean?
Fore·ward
What did I do? Revel in my own collection wondering "aah - I do have this book, oh - I have this book as well, now I don't have to buy it again". So I had the likes of Francis Fukuyama, "A Portrait of the Artist as a young man", "Vedic religion", Primo Levi, Andre Gide, "Tin Drum", "Remains of the Day".
Out of the dark comes this book by Lynne Truss titled "Eats, Shoots and Leaves!". What is it about? Well, for those who are familiar with the term "grammar nazi", it is about punctuation. So I am back to my own favourite topic - finding gaffes in english usage around me. Perfectly captured here by the author -
"If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of pulse ...."
"... it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement."
It is always such fun to read about "mis-punctuation". Sample this (A panda comes to a hotel, eats a sandwich, fires two gunshots in the air, and leaves. When asked by the waiter, as to why, it says, refer the wildlife manual which mentions- )
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves"
Understand? Coming to the title, presenting today's gaffe over the web -
PS - What the two words really mean?Fore·ward
The van; the front. [Obs.]
Fore·word
A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author.
Well, what can I say am I a grammar nazi? Well, yes. Maybe, no. Ohh! All of this later!!
Well, what can I say am I a grammar nazi? Well, yes. Maybe, no. Ohh! All of this later!!
10/19/2008
Grammar 101
Okay I cannot claim to be a "know-it-all" as far as grammar is concerned. But given minimal awareness I may not make such mistakes. This is live from a B-School (event frenzy in B-Schools going on these days)
due to a server error the attachments could be delivered.
Kindly RESEND this mail to all your college students.
Apologize for any inconvenience caused.
"
Okay so due to a server error normally the attachments cannot be sent, but curiously it was sent in this case. D'accord
But it get curious-er (pardon me), they want the receipient college to apologize for the server error. LOL, LMAO, ROFLOL and suchlike.
(so much for event organization pressure)
Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:15 AM
Subject: $%$%$ presents Paragana 2008 :Launch of Chrysalis and Engrave ,Business Plan Competitions
To: events@%$$%%.org
Hi All,Subject: $%$%$ presents Paragana 2008 :Launch of Chrysalis and Engrave ,Business Plan Competitions
To: events@%$$%%.org
due to a server error the attachments could be delivered.
Kindly RESEND this mail to all your college students.
Apologize for any inconvenience caused.
"
Okay so due to a server error normally the attachments cannot be sent, but curiously it was sent in this case. D'accord
But it get curious-er (pardon me), they want the receipient college to apologize for the server error. LOL, LMAO, ROFLOL and suchlike.
(so much for event organization pressure)
10/08/2008
Linguistic overture
It's very puzzling, for me atleast, to see two words describing the same action, having different connotations but the same letters just rearranged.
I need not explain, but see the difference between - Veto and Vote
I need not explain, but see the difference between - Veto and Vote
10/06/2008
3/03/2008
Linguistic overtures ...
Quirky, related? Yes the words in English !!!
Gateway = Getaway
On a completely unrelated note, a quote that I coined yesterday which had been on my mind for long. I can't prove but an empirical study on me reveals so -
"Success of any education is a direct measure of confusion that it creates."
So long as I did not know why did I pay so much for a popcorn in a multiplex, I paid. But now I know it is due to couple of factors -
1. Simple economics - demand and supply - Inelastic demand. (Is it right? I doubt)
2. Marketing - Discriminatory pricing, fleecing the customer.
A good education just widens the ways and angles in which your mind can roam. It gives structure but it also gives you so many roads and alleyways which you can now roam. Earlier there would have been the way, only one way or you thought there existed only one way which was the right one.
Gateway = Getaway
On a completely unrelated note, a quote that I coined yesterday which had been on my mind for long. I can't prove but an empirical study on me reveals so -
"Success of any education is a direct measure of confusion that it creates."
So long as I did not know why did I pay so much for a popcorn in a multiplex, I paid. But now I know it is due to couple of factors -
1. Simple economics - demand and supply - Inelastic demand. (Is it right? I doubt)
2. Marketing - Discriminatory pricing, fleecing the customer.
A good education just widens the ways and angles in which your mind can roam. It gives structure but it also gives you so many roads and alleyways which you can now roam. Earlier there would have been the way, only one way or you thought there existed only one way which was the right one.
1/09/2008
Linguistic Overtures
English language quirks, mathematically speaking.
Intim"id"ate - Intimate = " ID ", coincidence or Freud coined these words.
Intim"id"ate - Intimate = " ID ", coincidence or Freud coined these words.
9/11/2007
Linguistic Overtures
I am writing again after a long long time. This time my focus has somehow turned into language and its peculiarities. Here are some gems (according to me obviously).
1. "Begum" - "Be"+"Gum" meaning without any sadness, what a farcical word this one.
2. Incidentally if you have not wondered ever "Bedroom" has an interesting jumbled up word which is "Boredom".
3. Two unseemingly related words which are again jumbles of each other - "Teacher" and "Cheater".
4. Propitiously "women ...... men" and the question to you is what fills that dots (a mathematical symbol). The answer is ">" because men on both side cancel out. Now this has some deep insights.
Languages created by humans are so beautiful and they are so quirky that no one notices these small yet very profound links.
1. "Begum" - "Be"+"Gum" meaning without any sadness, what a farcical word this one.
2. Incidentally if you have not wondered ever "Bedroom" has an interesting jumbled up word which is "Boredom".
3. Two unseemingly related words which are again jumbles of each other - "Teacher" and "Cheater".
4. Propitiously "women ...... men" and the question to you is what fills that dots (a mathematical symbol). The answer is ">" because men on both side cancel out. Now this has some deep insights.
Languages created by humans are so beautiful and they are so quirky that no one notices these small yet very profound links.
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