Saturday, January 21, 2006

My English

This thing has been bugging me for some time now. For some unknown reason, the quality of my English dropped considerably. Not sure if that's because of reading too much of machine-translated englished in Japanese bugs. Whatever the reason may be, my english is in an appalling state.

I was trying to ignore such thoughts for quite some time. But whenever I get a chance to re-read whatever I wrote, I feel a pang of pain in my heart when I realize that king-size blunders are common-place in my English now.

A few years ago, I was extremely proud of my English. I used to sneer at every bad usage. My friend knows about it pretty well and this would always be the favourite topic in our endless conversations. But that was the time when I felt that a better English was the first thing that will convert a person from a "qualifier" to a "winner". Now, I know a lot of other parameters that can distort the selection criteria.

Can anyone here help me get back my English? Atleast help me get back my penchant for better English?
Posted by Sai Pondalur at 2:30 AM

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A year and half ago when I started blogging, I started it hoping that consistent writing expressing my thoughts would aid in improving my written english, (and hopefully spoken english) making me an artful expressor via this godforbidden langauge.

Now, I no longer write a blog (if at all I write one) for the purpose of improving my english. I don't find it a necessity any more, not because I think I am an expert now, but only because I look at this issue very differently. I discovered that, all through out, it is verbal and written communication that I am striving to master and not the language in which I communicate. In my view, language is only but a minor part in communication. But the overarching theme, as I find it, in communicating one's thoughts is to be able to think clear enough to express them. With some practice, I am sure, it's not a difficulty to find the right words in any language.

I no longer care for mastery of any language, and I don't consider it exciting (as I used to before) any more. You lost the interest - very well, thats one good thing to have happened in a long while. My advice - be happy about it.

12:13 AM

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