“Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.”
― John Lennard
How do you feel when early morning, trying to disconnect from reality, humming onto the tip-toeing music number, cherishing the nature, you are walking to your building in the office and you bump into a team mate? Baaaam!! This was the only thing that you never wanted to happen. The sole thing that makes you realize, life is not that merrier as you assumed just a while ago. The weather, the day isn't that chirpy as it felt sometime back. And what follows next? The elevator trip to your floor and further to your desk would be more than enough to fill you up with the latest office gossip, something that you just didn't want to start your day with. But, sigh! That's how a 'Good Morning' sounds in our corporate world. Real world problems.
Though, this morning was a tad different. The team mate of mine asked me an English grammar doubt, thereby increasing my happiness quotient. Yes, when it's colleagues, talk to me about the language, I'll be more than glad to strike a conversation. Else, have my monosyllable replies served on a silver platter right in your face.
What propped up a question in his mind was a mailer for a team party that I'd sent last week for a tiny celebration. Yes, we celebrate when someone leaves the team. *insert the final cadence* Is it because we're happy to have him off the hook? Or for having a gathering where we get to openly state how envious we're of him as he gets to leave while we're being made to stay? Either ways, it's an occasion worth cherishing for both, the team and the person gaining freedom from it. Why? I still can't pin point onto one reason.
Anyway, the mailer's subject read: 'Tejas' farewell'. The obvious question of this team mate of mine was on the apostrophe. He asked, 'Hey! Did you forgot putting an extra 'S' in the subject that day?' Ask me how I resisted punching him in the face! No, not for the wicked smile he carried on his face thinking, he had pointed out my mistake but for that deadly usage of past tense with 'did'. Can I oblige him with an extra grammar rule apart from the one he has asked for? Oh, the enlightenment! Well, I clarified his doubt. But restrained myself from saying, 'Hey! Your grammar is wrecked. Forget Apostrophe.' and knocking him down a dark alley.
Nevertheless, I did look up online for what exactly is the story with Apostrophe and if there are some lesser known rules around it. I stepped onto some interesting images from a website:
Here's some of it ->
Closing the post with a quote that would force you to be careful with your grammar next time onwards:
“Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you.”
On a lighter note, never underestimate the power of punctuation for that's where all our emoticons originate from! :D
― John Lennard
How do you feel when early morning, trying to disconnect from reality, humming onto the tip-toeing music number, cherishing the nature, you are walking to your building in the office and you bump into a team mate? Baaaam!! This was the only thing that you never wanted to happen. The sole thing that makes you realize, life is not that merrier as you assumed just a while ago. The weather, the day isn't that chirpy as it felt sometime back. And what follows next? The elevator trip to your floor and further to your desk would be more than enough to fill you up with the latest office gossip, something that you just didn't want to start your day with. But, sigh! That's how a 'Good Morning' sounds in our corporate world. Real world problems.
Though, this morning was a tad different. The team mate of mine asked me an English grammar doubt, thereby increasing my happiness quotient. Yes, when it's colleagues, talk to me about the language, I'll be more than glad to strike a conversation. Else, have my monosyllable replies served on a silver platter right in your face.
What propped up a question in his mind was a mailer for a team party that I'd sent last week for a tiny celebration. Yes, we celebrate when someone leaves the team. *insert the final cadence* Is it because we're happy to have him off the hook? Or for having a gathering where we get to openly state how envious we're of him as he gets to leave while we're being made to stay? Either ways, it's an occasion worth cherishing for both, the team and the person gaining freedom from it. Why? I still can't pin point onto one reason.
Anyway, the mailer's subject read: 'Tejas' farewell'. The obvious question of this team mate of mine was on the apostrophe. He asked, 'Hey! Did you forgot putting an extra 'S' in the subject that day?' Ask me how I resisted punching him in the face! No, not for the wicked smile he carried on his face thinking, he had pointed out my mistake but for that deadly usage of past tense with 'did'. Can I oblige him with an extra grammar rule apart from the one he has asked for? Oh, the enlightenment! Well, I clarified his doubt. But restrained myself from saying, 'Hey! Your grammar is wrecked. Forget Apostrophe.' and knocking him down a dark alley. Nevertheless, I did look up online for what exactly is the story with Apostrophe and if there are some lesser known rules around it. I stepped onto some interesting images from a website: Here's some of it ->
Closing the post with a quote that would force you to be careful with your grammar next time onwards:
“Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you.”
On a lighter note, never underestimate the power of punctuation for that's where all our emoticons originate from! :D
Keep posting more. It's a delight reading experiences with your wicked take on them. Makes for a great stress-buster.
ReplyDeleteYou're blessed with finding perfect words to describe what you feel and I believe that every reader who reads your excerpts will definitely connect to them. Loved it.
ReplyDeleteYou both! :')
ReplyDeleteThanks.