Well… I don’t know English grammar and Table counting. Not just now! I never did… Ya, not even in class 6th (former one) or while preparing for CAT (the latter one).
My father knew my brilliance (or the absence of it!) in mathematics when I could pick up the table of 5 while papa was teaching my elder. He got beaten up cause I could vomit just what he was expected to deliver. But alas! That’s where it stopped. I later learnt the tables of 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12, 15 and 20. But I remember I always had a reason to hide my poor memory by resorting to my super duper multiplication skills (yes… exaggerated).
I was offered many sops for filling my intestine (that’s where my table counting memory resides) with those exotic tables. My favorite biscuits, that toy, even money. But I’m quite ethical person (after all I got into SPJain)!. My intestines wouldn’t have allowed those biscuits to settle-in anyways. My father gave up as I entered class 8th. By this time math went beyond rote learning. And I survived.
Well, if you were to compare my table counting skill with my English grammar skills then I’m a genius in table counting. Need I say more about the plight of my father and teachers?
Till this time, most difficult learning of my life had been Grammar. [and not Marketing!]
Papa still can’t figure out and has serious doubts about how I communicate or write in English.
I’m somehow still not convinced of grammar being taught in bookish ways. Now some super intelligent readers of this blog might want to check my Hindi grammar skills… I would just say ‘Beware’. If I get a chance I would actually write-off Hindi grammar altogether and its stupid differences in things like chandrabindu and bindu, three types of ‘S’, two types of ‘R’, deergh-ekaar and harswa-ekaar and what not!
But I don’t want to remain “un-grammatical” for my life. Next time I will go home, I’m going to pick my cousins grammar book and read through all the pages of complex participles, adverbs and verbs… May be I’m negating the chances of my kid writing similar post on his blog :)
Any help or sympathies or even ‘me too’s’!
PS: I just saw TOI has come up with editorial page article on "Say No to rote learning" today...
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Pretty well proved here that grammar is not really required to convey the message. Good one.. I doubt that you can convey exactly similar message in Hindi with your strong Hindi grammar skill :P ... It was really good dude! keep rockin...
I agree Rajesh.... :)
how does grammar matter dude... einstein and newton was bad in math... but they were good in physics...
just keep us rich in the market and we will keep quiet about your grammar... ;)
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