Saturday, October 2, 2010

Proposition: Reject the Silencers!

My fellow readers, comrades and colleagues.
We live in a world today that has been showered upon by the ism of democracy. We revel in the big glorious raindrops that pitter patter from this brilliant logic that was taken upon by each and every one of our forefathers. Choice, free market, liberalism, boom and more boom, the divine awesomeness (for the lack of a befitting word) that is the voice of the people has all but shown our enemies what and who reigns supreme.
We live today, my fellows, in a world of equality. Sure, some of us are more equal than others, and the naysayers say that the divide between the haves and the havenots is only increasing. But what do they know?
Alas friends they have a point. There is one particular area, where their logic and reasoning is infallible. One field where they bring up arguments that leave me and I'm sure at some point or the other, you too, stumped.

Stumped like a match-fixing cricket game gone horribly wrong.


Like you, I too lament the fact that there are scores of words in our daily speak, our squawk, our lexicon, that dole unforgivable injustices to letters. 
Why I ask you my peers, does this happen?
Have you no sympathy for the letter p in front of the words 'psychology', 'psychiatrist', 'psycho' (and many more of the like)?
Does it not hurt you when you forget that certain letters are silent in a word, you mistakenly mispronounce them, then immediately eliminate them from your tongue and lives like they're an obsolete piece of technology, akin to the 3-and-a-half floppy disks you used to love so much once upon a time?
Why is Reuters, whose main business is to deal with words, pronounced so? 
Why do we abuse letters and put them in words when we wont use them?

Why? Think about it damnit, WHY?


Thankfully, in this world where little makes sense, we have our saviours- the Indians. They and their entire people (which includes Bengalis, Pakistanis, and other brown-looking homo sapiens) never commit such unjustice- they pronounce the word Wednesday just like it's spelt, the good souls.

Therefore today my listeners, I'd like to propose a movement. A movement that will hopefully show the world how committed we, practitioners of Equality, are in being true to our word (no pun intended).
I hereby propose that we decree a Day to pronounce all the words exactly as they are spelt. A Day we reject the Silencers! A Day where we can match up to at least 1% of the Awesomeness that are the Indians.

I propose a Pronounce Properly Period!

LONG LIVE PPP!

PPP ZINDABAD,
A!

2 comments:

  1. PPP zindabad
    keep up the good work ABU!!!
    i for one am stumped :)

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  2. HAHAHA,
    what are you stumped by Chamath?

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