Con-worse-ations!
“Hi! I’m Betty, remember the last time we met at Kevin’s birthday bash….it’s no more party! ‘Bash’ -I thought innocent souls were beaten up. Sophistication and style has gained importance rather than using the right words in the right context. The power of owning idioms and amassing wealth of rich creamy vocabulary is the ‘in thing’.
Acceptance plays an important role here. The first impression and the way one starts a conversation talks from which part of the town you are. There comes society, class and brand-centric community. From what we wear to what we shopped, we only believe in talking and flaunting, realizing we lose track resulting in gossip and a drunken state of mind that comes free, when we are brave enough to speak the truth.
Next day hangovers erupt news, rumors out of what we really said that what we ever meant.
Yes, it worsened words and relations. I truly call it ‘Con-worse-ations’. Mankind not kind enough to apologize and repeatedly inculcate it as part of our lifestyle. “Oh gawd! She wore the same black dress at Misty’s funeral….” (behind the back) . “Wow! You look gorgeous today! I love the earrings, it goes well with the dress” (facing the lady in black).
It doesn’t matter whether the conversation makes sense or no, nor does it have to be serious parliament discussions. It could be on a lighter note, but slangs, abuses and half-hearted and headed words that even if not used, wouldn’t have made much of a difference. I can make that easier, words of humble pie – “Sorry”, “Please”, “Thank You” were taught as mannerisms at school. Now the new school of thought, well no thought, in fact. The who care attitude and letting down people that we know better than them, and we speak things that they don’t understand. Probably an element of surprise saying, “You don’t know what procrastination means?”
“Soup with asparagus”-sounds like ordering for a reptile. The menu has high rated prices for the highly used words not understandable to the common man. It’s just like having a vegetarian omelette that has no eggs. When one moves from place to place, the language and cultures are different, so things have transformed, evolved from generations. Using Queen’s English was no more a civilized fantasy, but completely outdated. Yes, rejected of even being dated, so I just got updated on the fact that kids were no more a goat’s young one, but man bred them too. Interesting!
Impeccable English was a requisite for English speaking related jobs. Communication was so essential and a command over the language was like having acquired the Roman Kingdom in your hands. But now accent and diction, throwing off words like never heard before and coating them with abbreviated forms. That’s functional literacy with the advent of technology and reducing burden of time and words, the fast pace life has become a part of us in no time.
Conversations that involved tone, voice, feeling and expression has been lost somewhere in the way we interact now. An outer self evident look that can gauge class and acceptance within the group is overshadowing the power of reaching out apart from the class. This roadblock has not only created like-minded groups, but also have broken down the thought process of every individual to converse and not worsen words that can make a difference.
Acceptance plays an important role here. The first impression and the way one starts a conversation talks from which part of the town you are. There comes society, class and brand-centric community. From what we wear to what we shopped, we only believe in talking and flaunting, realizing we lose track resulting in gossip and a drunken state of mind that comes free, when we are brave enough to speak the truth.
Next day hangovers erupt news, rumors out of what we really said that what we ever meant.
Yes, it worsened words and relations. I truly call it ‘Con-worse-ations’. Mankind not kind enough to apologize and repeatedly inculcate it as part of our lifestyle. “Oh gawd! She wore the same black dress at Misty’s funeral….” (behind the back) . “Wow! You look gorgeous today! I love the earrings, it goes well with the dress” (facing the lady in black).
It doesn’t matter whether the conversation makes sense or no, nor does it have to be serious parliament discussions. It could be on a lighter note, but slangs, abuses and half-hearted and headed words that even if not used, wouldn’t have made much of a difference. I can make that easier, words of humble pie – “Sorry”, “Please”, “Thank You” were taught as mannerisms at school. Now the new school of thought, well no thought, in fact. The who care attitude and letting down people that we know better than them, and we speak things that they don’t understand. Probably an element of surprise saying, “You don’t know what procrastination means?”
“Soup with asparagus”-sounds like ordering for a reptile. The menu has high rated prices for the highly used words not understandable to the common man. It’s just like having a vegetarian omelette that has no eggs. When one moves from place to place, the language and cultures are different, so things have transformed, evolved from generations. Using Queen’s English was no more a civilized fantasy, but completely outdated. Yes, rejected of even being dated, so I just got updated on the fact that kids were no more a goat’s young one, but man bred them too. Interesting!
Impeccable English was a requisite for English speaking related jobs. Communication was so essential and a command over the language was like having acquired the Roman Kingdom in your hands. But now accent and diction, throwing off words like never heard before and coating them with abbreviated forms. That’s functional literacy with the advent of technology and reducing burden of time and words, the fast pace life has become a part of us in no time.
Conversations that involved tone, voice, feeling and expression has been lost somewhere in the way we interact now. An outer self evident look that can gauge class and acceptance within the group is overshadowing the power of reaching out apart from the class. This roadblock has not only created like-minded groups, but also have broken down the thought process of every individual to converse and not worsen words that can make a difference.
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