January 5 at 3:25pm
- Asif Ullah Khan ramesh, my son arsalan says there is no such thing as two persons. it is either one person or two people. can you help me
Aravind Baliga Ramesh, good one. Without the question mark at the end, it would be a statement, hopefully followed up by the article explaining exactly why this is difficult. On the other hand, the header "Why IS keeping New Year resolutions difficult? " (note uppercase IS) would be grammatically correct as well, followed by an article explaining why its difficult.
January 6 at 6:52am
Ramesh Prabhu Asif: It is correct, but perhaps rare, to write "two persons". Ask Arsalan to just Google the phrase "two persons" -- there are plenty of entries. (Though I must add that there are one or two websites that say "two persons" is wrong.) Read the second para here: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/him.html.
January 6 at 2:19pm
Vibha Ghai Another prospective rant ... if you have not listed it already ... why 'momento' instead of 'memento' ? The Italian connection somewhere? :-)
January 6 at 1:48pm
Sudhir Prabhu Blame all the Dias' from Mangalore such as Priscilla Dias and Edwin Dias :)
January 6 at 2:31pm
Tania Sarkar this one we did in class, sir! :) thanks... i miss your phrase of the day! :( couldn't it be on fb?
January 7 at 1:18pm- ***Rant No. 33: Why is it necessary to use the word "dusty" to describe libraries or encyclopaedias?
Padmini Nandy Mazumder Uh... Yes I have! The District Library at Guwahati is full of dust! :P
January 7 at 3:51pm
Ramesh Prabhu Clearly, I have to go to Guwahati and give the librarian a piece of my mind.
January 7 at 3:55pm
Debmalya Pablo Dutta Me too... The famous National Library in Calcutta... The old periodicals department... Besides having the choicest collection of magazines and dailies,it has some of the oldest dust in the country... :P
January 7 at 6:54pm
Ramesh Prabhu Do our other cities have dusty libraries and encyclopaedias? I haven't seen any in Mumbai or Bangalore.
January 8 at 10:50am
Saffana Michael I dont know about libraries but my bookshelf at home often collects dust.... maybe books just naturally collect dust?
Sunday at 9:02am
Patrick MichaelYou have dust mites, dust storms, dusty roads and dusty libraries. Try the public library in Panjim, or the Asiatic, or the the one that used to be opposite the Jehangir Art Gallery in amchi Mumbai. If you sneezed, you'd trigger a dust storm! Sorry Ramesh, guess you've not been to places I have!!!!
Sunday at 7:00pm
Ramesh PrabhuPat: The situations you describe may have existed 20-30 years ago. Do you think the scene will be different today? Also, these libraries are all public libraries -- does anyone still visit public libraries? I am curious.
I am a member of the Just Books chain of libraries -- the branch I visit is air-conditioned; I use radio frequency ID, or RFID, technology to return and issue books at a touch-screen kiosk, and I have access to some 4,000 new books every month. I just can't imagine "dusty" being used to describe any Just Books branch or the books on their shelves.
Monday at 10:22am- ***
Bala Murali Krishna Here is one from Business Standard's Page one: "When contacted Bonanza Director Bonanza did not take the call."
Monday at 3:31pm
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Kirti Bhotika Garg it's a shorthand for "yaar" Sir... :D lol, I could imagine you speaking out your rant :P
Yesterday at 10:54am
Nandini Hegde sirji txt language ko baksh do!! nahi to Rant No. 555 tak pohach jaaoge! :P
Yesterday at 11:05am
Vibha Ghai I think once you reach 100, it will be time to look for a publisher ... The Rants You Always Wanted To Air But Could Not !
Yesterday at 11:09am
Tania Sarkar sir, although I never use it... but normally people use it as a short form of "yaar"... and this is not just a form of shorthand but they also use it in spoken language too!
Yesterday at 11:24am
Ramesh Prabhu Nandini: My "Bambaiya" Hindi vocabulary does not include the word "baksh". Please translate your comment for me. :-)
Yesterday at 11:46am
Tania Sarkar Sir, that's what I said... that in spoken language too people have started using this word! :(
Yesterday at 1:03pm
Ramesh Prabhu Koyel and other young people: You will notice that in the examples quoted in my status message there's an ellipsis after each "ya". That's three presses of a key, right? Why not press "a" and "r" instead and complete the word in the same amount of time taken to key in the ellipsis? (Assuming that "ya" stands for "yaar", of course.)
Yesterday at 2:13pm
Ramesh Prabhu Ah, I get it now. No, Nandu, I am not going to be taking on our texters but I was really curious abut this "ya" business. I have my answer now. Thanks.
Yesterday at 3:26pm
Harshada Neem i salute thee for all the rants u can think of !!!!! sirjee tussi great ho !!!
20 hours ago
Mini KolluriGrowing up in Bangalore, it was a part of the slang. Almost like "da" in Tamil or "o" in Kannada. Not sure what the origins are, but "ya" would translate to "man". So, "What ya?" or "Tell me ya". "Ya" by the way is gender neutral.
Before you get mad at me, I haven't used it since childhood when we'd jokingly use "poriki" English.
16 hours ago
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