In the context of grammar and all that it has to offer, there are a number of us who snigger at someone just because the person’s sentence construction does not meet the cut. Believe me I face flak by many who perceive my phrasing to be verbose. Can blame it on the potholes of my ever so dusty construct of verbs, adjectives, phrasing, simple past, past imperfect, present continuous and so on and so forth! But I try and do all that I can with a never say never attitude. Some may say that I speak better than I write or the other way round and some wonder why I bore them with this long-windiness. Anyway, in time I hope I can join upper end club of the grammatically correct!
I now move along to the context of Indianized idioms that are so part and parcel of our heritage. The merry mix of angrez infused with desi tones can make the high end club feel a trifle nauseated. As for me, I am pretty proud of some of the terminologies and guffaw at them heartily. The construction of ‘we are like that only’ is a merry mix of Indianism that is rather pleasant to the discerning Indian ear. Or ‘all is well’ so fondly remembered from the flick 3 Idiots. But what I just cannot fathom is the rather popular usage of words - ‘used to’ that is constructed in the present, past and future tense. Wonder if I do the very same too! We are a mixed bag of people – some who speak eloquently and others who try, some who think in their native lingo and translate, and others who just go with what the heck let’s get the point across already! Perhaps I fall under all the categories - after all I am pretty much like this only!
Write on and let me know what you think about my grammatically incorrect usage of verbs, phrases, tense, articles, speech… and spread the cheer.
Xo
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