Kiski baat kar rahi aap ke Memory ki ya aap ke comparison ki?
________________________________ From: Archana Sharma <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 5 February, 2010 5:28:02 AM Subject: Re: nice way to combat common english mistakes :) i remember kumudam teacher reading out a poem about a small baby -- and reading-- mewing and puking --as pucking. A few seconds later, Mahesh A was asked to get out. I now realise he must have rhymed pucking to her annoyance. Kaisa laga? On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM, subramaniam sreenivasan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>I do make a lot of spelling mistakes ... Thank god for spellcheck these days. >>I am sure if I make grammatical mistakes as well .. >> >>I remember this at school (probably 8th standard) when Amin Bulsari was asked >>to read from the english book and he read Rhinoceros as Rhino-Cors > >________________________________ >Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:56:26 +0000 >Subject: Re: nice way to combat common english mistakes :) >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] > > > >Hey Nayan, > >I hope you didn't think I was picking on you, did you? > >The idea was to bring and discuss people's favourite/pet mistake. Mine being >the error in spelling "occasion" and many more. Since I already knew yours I >mentioned that. And this was because it was discussed a while ago. > >Of course, it doesn't matter even if you make mistakes and even i am guilty of >never reading what I write, until i hit the send button. And it is my >profession!!! > >I had a childhood friend who was quite anal about spellings...question or >contest him and he would immediately run to the dictionary and prove himself >right. > >A many years ago, while in a gossip session, i said, "your illicit >relationship..." and he laughed and said it is illict (pronounced as illikt) >and not ill-is-it. He had never realised there is an i before the last letter. >I protested quite confidently this time. > >And he again ran to the dictionary and was completely shocked to know that all >the while when he was reading the cover pages of Stardust, filmfare and gossip >fares, he just didn't notice the 'i'. > >This is what i meant by mistakes which may be silly but refuse to get shaken >off. > >Long mail? Well i have to make up for the lullness off late in the group, nai? > >Arch > > > > ________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
