I typed a comment on someone's post, "Beautiful portrait of a beautiful child".

Herr Otto Korekt nearly sent it as "Beautiful portrait of a beimaan child".

I didn't know auto correct could murder me in Hindi too.

Herr Otto Korekt at work again ( Read more... )

L. Shyamal....in a world full of serious ornithological study, he leavens his knowledge with a lot of humour. (He is still capable of a scholarly treatise with words I can hardly understand ( Read more... )

Here are three poyums (well, I'm sure that's the way she'd spell it!) by KTB on a single sheet of paper,with her trademark spelling. The erth, the "gordon" (garden), and bees...


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One of the problems that faced me as I learnt the English language was the contrariness of words and their opposites. I was fine with "interesting" being the opposite of "uninteresting" (I hope this piece of mine is the former and not the latter) and "amoral" being the opposite of "moral". But then I started getting into hot water. I ( Read more... )