Thisis Done Here ??
Today morning while hurrying back home from the neighbourhood bank through the narrow and further narrower by lanes of Dhakuria, a signboard suddenly caught my attention. Glared into my eyeballs the following text, bold and beautiful:
THISIS TO DOCTORATES DONE HERE.
Wow! Thank heavens they missed the “P” up front, otherwise I would be rather disheartened that all this while an outfit (hopefully Al Quaida – then Dhakuria comes on CNN!) openly ran a biological warfare firm here, right in my “para”, injecting some innocent PhDing mousy type academics with the dreaded disease, and I doing nothing about it. More atrocity on the bard’s language followed:
DEAD PICTURES LAMINATED HERE (Animation’s living I presume!)
STD WITH CHEAP CALL (No thank you- I prefer rubber!)
SURFING FREE INTERNET- 8/- per hr (Dream it!)
This ain’t the end dude. The icing on the cake: “GET XEROX SCHOOL/COLLEGE CHILDREN”. Nice option for harried parents-anyway kids are so troublesome these days.
As you can well gather from the above text, the business is quite huge with multi channels ranging from framing, binding to PCO and Cyber café. Why such a joint then can’t get a decent enough signboard? The owners are surely not illiterate. I don’t know the answer. If you do, kindly inform me. The “DENJERS” of HIV (Highly Incorrect Vocabulary) are not limited to truck drivers you see!!
THISIS TO DOCTORATES DONE HERE.
Wow! Thank heavens they missed the “P” up front, otherwise I would be rather disheartened that all this while an outfit (hopefully Al Quaida – then Dhakuria comes on CNN!) openly ran a biological warfare firm here, right in my “para”, injecting some innocent PhDing mousy type academics with the dreaded disease, and I doing nothing about it. More atrocity on the bard’s language followed:
DEAD PICTURES LAMINATED HERE (Animation’s living I presume!)
STD WITH CHEAP CALL (No thank you- I prefer rubber!)
SURFING FREE INTERNET- 8/- per hr (Dream it!)
This ain’t the end dude. The icing on the cake: “GET XEROX SCHOOL/COLLEGE CHILDREN”. Nice option for harried parents-anyway kids are so troublesome these days.
As you can well gather from the above text, the business is quite huge with multi channels ranging from framing, binding to PCO and Cyber café. Why such a joint then can’t get a decent enough signboard? The owners are surely not illiterate. I don’t know the answer. If you do, kindly inform me. The “DENJERS” of HIV (Highly Incorrect Vocabulary) are not limited to truck drivers you see!!
posted by alpha_ro_mel at 9:09 pm
4 Comments:
Great one! No wonder that such places exist in our 'porar desh'. The tragedy is they wont loose their business due to such a signboard. Because, all the important words are there, which our eyes try to find! ....which reconfirms that verbs are not important atleast to get the meaning!
'Priyo Bondhu'-r Joyitar mato bolte ichhe korchhe, "...banglay lekho na keno baba?"
Well, haven't we all witnessed the cherub eyed public looking up with a smooth cocktail of jealousy and awe towards the "English medium boys and girls", wishing how much that their offsprings would too speak the queen's langauge with equal confidence, never mind the grammatical goof ups. After 200 years below them this colony can't get rid of its fascination with English, even at the cost of mocking its won identity.
This again reminds me of a computer printed A4 sized notice that was put up on the 3rd floor bathroom of Shreeram Arcade. It read:
"Toilet Out Of Order. Please use the floor below."
Rest is history.
This is a better one my friend.....
But 200 years are enough to create a language in isolation which I agree Indians have hardl been in. But again that would be hard to believe after sampling a dose of the south indian variety - english I mean(the cuisine DOES NOT deserve a mention - and culinary traditions are integral to a civilizations progress-;) )And not to forget our own bangla-fied versions as well.....
Its a race that fails to distinguish between Vs and Ws - raising more than a few cynical laughs.
People -English is our first language! All of us learnt everything we know in that language - and do not give me the crap about blighty-cows(tansh goru)! Anyone who knows me would certify my bilingual credentials - and frankly Bengali's hardly speak good bengali either - or write for that matter. It all boils down to an awareness of linguistic identities and their importance - along with the lost art of elegant articulation.
Post a Comment
<< Home