Teaching Foreign Languages is fun. The brand new learners do not carry a huge baggage of acquired and ingrained errors as in the case of English. Poor English! Most users use it as if they are teaching the erstwhile masters a proper lesson! Quite a vicious revenge it is, taken out on the poor language, believe me! As the motto is "wat laga denge", "mar dala" is the theme song of most users as far as the colonizers' control over/of/on their mother tongue goes!
"According to me", "you are having a lecture, isn't it?" That is mostly the level of the English usage. Poor language! No use correcting ''the faculties" or their "family members". "What mistakes you are finding ", they would snap at you. Our "faculty members are doing speaking like that only," they, moreover, assure you!
"Before i am forgetting", they suddenly remember, "you are not putting the sign on the backside". You stare open mouthed at that gem of a speaker. "Hear, hear, take pen,"they continue while you are thoroughly confused. "Their is the backside," the murder of the language now wears a written cloak. "Hear is pen, put, put your sign, not here, on the backside!" Though you blush at the horrendous suggestion, you do the needful. "That more better," the worthy grants you a certificate. "Since two months i waited for your sign," the relentless attack refuses to subside. Before you faint due to constant gasping, you somehow manage to run away!
The worst part is that such is the decades old habit formation that it would never ever get corrected. It is the proverbial dog's tail! Moreover, it is quite a fashionable fancy currently to teach fluency and communication rather than grammar! Lord save the language, in brief!
Pratima@When mighty ignorance speaks aggressively, it is wiser, I suppose, to leave the venu, eh, the arena quietly!
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