Sunday, September 30, 2007

Edit..

That's wot people interested in mag.com last year had to do with the passage given below. The language is not crisp. It's full of grammatical errors etc. I hope this uncorrected passage makes for interesting reading

It’s a wonder how some people don’t seem to never want to read. Or write, for that matter.

As far as I am concerned, reading’s like this periodic bouts of hedonistic recidivism- give me a good book and and in less time than it takes to dog-ear someone else’s book, I am neck-deep in the plot and totally, absolutely, completely lost to the world. There’s a book to suit every taste, every situation, every need, every emotion, every fixation! One needs to know only where to look. People who are weary of books or simply ignorant or indifferent of them, miss out on so much!

Writing! I’ve seen my sister fill up diaries and diaries of god knows what! And then there’s people who’ve been known to baulk at the very thought of putting pen to paper! Give them a simple letter to write or a notice to put up and they are confounded! What is the point of spending long years at school, if even these routine necessities continue to baffle us out of our wits and that too at our parent’s expense? Imagine how unthinkable writing for pleasure would be to them .And, for that matter, as a medium of self-expression, not necessarily translating into ‘Dear Diary’ entries.

7 comments:

Mufaddal said...

dont talk - how ironic

cool article very relevant in VNIT after all our library is testament to the deficiency of vitamin R(for reading)

writing is also not that popular but at least that become better with the advent of the newsletter

Sheetal said...

chennapamazing thoughts u hav expressed in ur article which might open blind eyes to go towards the path of the term known as "READING" rather than writing and pin pointing others gramatical mistake for that matter.

Jatin said...

"...like this periodic bouts of hedonistic recidivism..."

omg!
O_o

priyaghatwai said...

dear 08936665334860569743
"...like this periodic bouts of hedonistic recidivism..."
is wrong.
it should've been
"...like THESE periodic bouts of hedonistic recidivism..."

priyaghatwai said...
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Suyash Joshi said...

what does "hedonistic recidivism" mean anyways?

sweta yadav said...

i know what hedonistic means. radiwhatever is a martian word. m sure. n there too its a lesser known word. hey what do martians call it when they use flowery language? coz come to think f it, there are no flowers there! major problem eh, priya?