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Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Is there no difference between "who's" and "whose"?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 9: "Who's" and "whose" may sound alike (they are homophones ), but surely literate people can ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Who is a "cousin sister"?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 7: From an article in "Open" magazine -- "My first grown-up book was Jeffrey Archer’s As the Crow Flies,...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

"U" vs "You"

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 6: Didn't I tell u it's a charmed life? That's a sentence from the "Letter from the Editor" in...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Isn't there a difference between "who's" and "whose"?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 5: The Times of India Crest Edition of June 30 features an interview with poet and author Jeet Thayil by Naomi Canton...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

A question of illiteracy

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 4: Headline in the Economic Times, June 24 — "Why the big four Andhra Pradesh-based infrastructure companies GMR...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Upliftment? UpliftMENT?

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 3: In The Times of India Crest Edition of June 23, Purnima Sharma interviews Salima Raza, writer and director of a ne...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

A prime example of an illiterate sentence

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OCCASIONAL RANT NO. 2: In "The Fantastic 40s", its cover story on June 24, The Economic Times on Sunday features Mumbai trauma ...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

50 rants to make you think about bad English vs good English

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Rant No. 1: Why do we ring up and say "XYZ is there?" Shouldn't we ask, "Is XYZ there?" *** Rant No. 2: Why do...

(11) Facebook rants to make you think about bad English vs good English (46-50)

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Ramesh Prabhu Rant No. 46: Why do so many of us insist on spelling "definitely" as "definately"? January 28 at 10:36am S...