आयुष्यात अनेक प्रकारची माणसे भेटली आणि अनेक प्रकारचे प्रसंग घडले. काही चांगले, काही वाईट. त्यांतल्या लक्षात रहातील अशा व्यक्ती आणि घटना येथे मांडल्या आहेत. समोर येणा~या अडचणींतून मार्ग काढतांना बरंच काही शिकायला मिळालं. तेही लिहिलं आहे. त्यांतून माझा स्वतःचा मोठेपणा दाखविण्याचा हेतू बिलकूल नाही. इंटरनेटवर असलेली माहिती जगाच्या पाठीवर असणा~या कोणालाही घेता येते म्हणून हा सगळा प्रपंच. त्यांतले बरे वाटेल ते घ्या. जर त्यातून कोणाचा फायदा झाला तर हा सगळा खटाटोप सार्थकी लागला असे मला वाटेल.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Verb or Noun?
It is probably a firm belief of some municipal employees that the rules of grammar are different for them as compared to the rest of the world. It is with this conviction that they draft letters. Their superior officers either share the belief or are not bothered enough to check spelling and grammar in the letters they sign. The result is that people receive letters from the concerned persons which sometimes bordering on hilarious. Look at the following example.
The university has asked for detail information of all teaching staff. All heads of departments concern should send the information to the undersigned by tomorrow noon without fail.
I would have been happier if 'detailed' had been printed in place of 'detail' and 'concerned' in place of 'concern'. The part 'without fail' should be removed totally. An unfortunate part of the use of bad grammar is that new appointees believe this is the approved grammar and spend an entire career writing such English. Since most of these letters are circulated within the institute or withing corporation offices at the most, the outside world does not come to know about it. That is a great face saver.
प्रशंसा करायचीय, नावे ठेवायचीयेत, काही विचारायचय, किंवा करायला आणखी चांगले काही सुचत नाहीये, तर क्लिक करा.