Feeling: amused Listening to: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were HereI’ve just started reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It’s a book about the incorrect usage of punctuation in the written language today and the misinterpretation the incorrect punctuation might cause. I’ve only completed it partly but it seems quite interesting except for the failing attempts of the author [...]
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Pedantic
July 18th, 2007 5 Comments
Tags: book · eats-shoots-and-leaves · grammar · grammar-nazi · language · punctuation · reading
Futile Attempts
June 7th, 2007 Comments Off
Feeling: quixotic Listening to: Iron Maiden – Be Quick or Be DeadI’ve been trying to improve my Hindi to an extent where I can go through an entire conversation without using a word of English. I’ve mostly failed miserably at it because I don’t know such pure Hindi. But I want to learn. Problem is, there isn’t anyone [...]
Tags: colleague · conversation · converse · hindi · language · nuts · pure