tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8390663173947135876.post2036390791108739305..comments2023-10-17T13:20:45.145+05:30Comments on The Little Ranting Reptile and Other Stories....: Apparently a Stupid school of thoughtStupidosaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440677810342540223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8390663173947135876.post-60994089712809729152009-10-13T04:33:00.900+05:302009-10-13T04:33:00.900+05:30Nice one! I'd not been able to understand it w...Nice one! I'd not been able to understand it without your explanation later on.<br /><br />This just made me think, English is considered to be an 'un-scientific' language as against Sanskrit or Latin, both in terms of its grammar and spelling-to-pronunciation correlation. Had English been a more scientific language maybe you'd have been able to come up with fewer word-plays. :) But I think that's why I started liking English more than any other language. It offers a lot of scope to experiment. Not that Hindi does not, but the moment one starts experimenting with it, it kind of becomes non-standard, whereas, English remains 'standard' with disparate ways of expressing the same idea. For instance, what you stated would grammatically more correctly stated as <i>appearance <b>is</b> counted</i>. And that too 'counted' would more appropriately become 'considered'. :)Ketanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622410643454108685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8390663173947135876.post-63231247479903664312008-12-03T18:36:00.000+05:302008-12-03T18:36:00.000+05:30@abhiBut it never went to school. Who taught it to...@abhi<BR/>But it never went to school. Who taught it to count?<BR/><BR/>@kanan<BR/>People say 1,2,3...<BR/>because they learnt to count.<BR/><BR/>Maybe appearance does not really count.<BR/>Maybe it just deceives us into thinking that it counts.<BR/>After all "Appearance can be deceiving." Right ;)<BR/><BR/>I guess I just extended an 'intelligent joke' further ;P<BR/><BR/>(When you don't understand or feel like laughing at a 'joke', you call it 'intellingent joke' :P)Stupidosaurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440677810342540223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8390663173947135876.post-77886215526021476702008-12-03T12:31:00.000+05:302008-12-03T12:31:00.000+05:30It does, no matter what people say.It does, no matter what people say.Kananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07935768144479233027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8390663173947135876.post-82078182137190464612008-11-29T10:50:00.000+05:302008-11-29T10:50:00.000+05:30Ofcourse (unfortunately?) it counts!Ofcourse (unfortunately?) it counts!Abhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00758774217194230453noreply@blogger.com