Popular belief is that with time and usage, your command over a language strengthens. But in my case, the reverse seems to be happening. No, this is not one of those self depreciating statements that expect reassurances from various corners. It’s a realization comforted by the fact that I’m at least slightly better than the commentary team of Set Max and IPL!
Before I go into my English, let me make fun of the IPL commentators. If I go down, I take them down with me. [:D] Probably we are partly responsible for a slightly perversive interpretation skills garnered by endless tirade of Two and a half men (there goes 2 of the 3 words that is interpreted as my “command” over English), but come on!! It can’t be just me.
When Rohan Jadeja took a catch at long off without moving from his place during the finals of the IPL Rameez Raja had this to say. “I can’t understand it. The young fielder totally doesn’t seem to be turned on by the ball in the air!!” (Well, no comments) There are almost a fifty other instances just in the semifinals and the finals (which I watched from start till end) when I wondered how stupid they will feel if it was played back to them.
And what was Ajay Jadeja blabbering all through the extra innings?!! If he had gotten two sentences in succession right, either factually or grammatically, I’m sure I must have missed the show.
If you remember from my earlier blogs (or you’ve heard me tell), I’m the party focal for my team. And of the strong opinion everyone has the right to make a complete fool out of oneself and I exercise every bit of it during these parties. But of late I find myself stopping in mid sentence, even before the punch line of an anecdote, cos I’m not sure about the grammar! Well Hindi, its kind of understandable since I am not still sure of the ki and ka and the ling concept is something that always make me stick to English. But when a reputation of “Talks a lot!!” is at stake, my incomplete sentences and occasional spells of silence are raising a few brows.
While I was trying to come to terms with the fact the instantaneous PJ’s end up being grammatically wrong (which I immediately correct and must stop doing), I kind of sought precedence to PDA(public Display of Absurdity). And these are my findings:
· Navjot Singh Sidhu, immaterial of the fact that he is uttering utter bullshit, says it with all that much confidence that its now termed Sidhuism. Probably a pointer there. (‘uttering utter bullshit’! How about that!)
· Banglore movie posters carry English that might make Wren and Martin perform a Ballet in their graves with occasional effects of banging their heads in the tombstone.
· The panel of commentators in Neo Sports and Set Max as elucidated with examples before.
· The Parliament sessions with the entire lot in whose hands rests the wellbeing of this mighty nation.
Basically, I could include a few more specific examples that might land me in soup (would that make me a crumb?). I’m not alone. Not the elite I agree, but nevertheless popular enough to be comforting. So here I’m better off than what I started with.
PS: For those of you, who understood what I was trying to do here, I have something to say – Sogar ich bekam es nicht :)
Adios.
Afterword: Ever notice how the title of the blog somehow never gives away the content? :D No nothing to it, just an observation.
