I became suddenly adventurous yesterday, decided to go for a Mallu movie. Like anybody else, I also became an enthusiastic person. I wanted to share the details of my adventure to somebody else.
I attempted to text to one of my aunts, "Premam movieyku pogunnu. Nalla movie aanennu kettu" ( this is current practice of using English alphabets to write Malayalam words - if this looks Greek to you what it means is that "going for Premam movie, heard it is good"). My editor dictionary was on and it would intelligently auto-suggest words if it didn't find a typed word in its vocabulary. Most of those mallu words it could not recognize, it could not auto-suggest either. But it found something for the word "Nalla"( good ). It found an "a" and two "l"s adjacent to it, all it did was prompted the word "balls" ( pardon my language, it is actually not mine but my editor's ! I think my editor has become smarter these days, it knows what am I up to these days !).
So my intention to tell good movie became balls movie. I noticed the error only after I sent the message. I apologized to my aunt for the error and sent the corrected message immediately. Though I knew my aunt is not that good in English, I didn't want to take any chance - People are not that dumb, they may not know a language well, but they will surely know a few bad words in that language.
Once I managed to finish watching the movie, I realized one thing - the editor, in its most innocent and inadvertent way, made a mistake but it was a correct mistake ! I should not have taken the pains of correcting my original, correct statement to my aunt ! Many a times we would be surprised to see that these slips are not slips at all, but they are hard truth.
Another slip I witnessed was in a cricket ground. I am not talking about those slip positions on the cricket fielding, but this was a genuine slip by the announcer. This was way back when I accompanied my uncle to watch a cricket match. Not that I knew the game of cricket that time, ( forget about complicated things in cricket like gully, slip, lbw etc, I even didn't know how many balls were there in an over - here no need to pardon my language, I meant much more frequently polished stuff here ! ). Attraction for me was a post-match stroll on the near by beach. And of course the pea-nuts and ice-cream which was mandatory while walking in that nice sea breeze.
Match started, score reached 8 runs. Suddenly one wicket fell and instead of announcing 8 for 1 wicket, the announcer shouted 8 for 4 wickets. No idea what made him say that, it was a big slip and he was quick enough to correct the statement. Whether anybody liked it or not, that slip became true in a span of next 2 overs, no runs scored but another 3 wickets fell. The score read 8 for 4 wickets and this time the announcement was true to its core. But my uncle didn't like it a bit. He was a strong supporter of the batting team. We got out of the stadium then and there. Good thing was that I didn't have to wait for the match to get over to proceed for the beach walk and associated goodies! Lucky slip for me !!
No slips, better. But watch out for those slips, they could just be genuine, intuit ones which are trying to fore-tell you the good or not-so-good realities in life though your expectations could be diametrically opposite.
I attempted to text to one of my aunts, "Premam movieyku pogunnu. Nalla movie aanennu kettu" ( this is current practice of using English alphabets to write Malayalam words - if this looks Greek to you what it means is that "going for Premam movie, heard it is good"). My editor dictionary was on and it would intelligently auto-suggest words if it didn't find a typed word in its vocabulary. Most of those mallu words it could not recognize, it could not auto-suggest either. But it found something for the word "Nalla"( good ). It found an "a" and two "l"s adjacent to it, all it did was prompted the word "balls" ( pardon my language, it is actually not mine but my editor's ! I think my editor has become smarter these days, it knows what am I up to these days !).
So my intention to tell good movie became balls movie. I noticed the error only after I sent the message. I apologized to my aunt for the error and sent the corrected message immediately. Though I knew my aunt is not that good in English, I didn't want to take any chance - People are not that dumb, they may not know a language well, but they will surely know a few bad words in that language.
Once I managed to finish watching the movie, I realized one thing - the editor, in its most innocent and inadvertent way, made a mistake but it was a correct mistake ! I should not have taken the pains of correcting my original, correct statement to my aunt ! Many a times we would be surprised to see that these slips are not slips at all, but they are hard truth.
Another slip I witnessed was in a cricket ground. I am not talking about those slip positions on the cricket fielding, but this was a genuine slip by the announcer. This was way back when I accompanied my uncle to watch a cricket match. Not that I knew the game of cricket that time, ( forget about complicated things in cricket like gully, slip, lbw etc, I even didn't know how many balls were there in an over - here no need to pardon my language, I meant much more frequently polished stuff here ! ). Attraction for me was a post-match stroll on the near by beach. And of course the pea-nuts and ice-cream which was mandatory while walking in that nice sea breeze.
Match started, score reached 8 runs. Suddenly one wicket fell and instead of announcing 8 for 1 wicket, the announcer shouted 8 for 4 wickets. No idea what made him say that, it was a big slip and he was quick enough to correct the statement. Whether anybody liked it or not, that slip became true in a span of next 2 overs, no runs scored but another 3 wickets fell. The score read 8 for 4 wickets and this time the announcement was true to its core. But my uncle didn't like it a bit. He was a strong supporter of the batting team. We got out of the stadium then and there. Good thing was that I didn't have to wait for the match to get over to proceed for the beach walk and associated goodies! Lucky slip for me !!
No slips, better. But watch out for those slips, they could just be genuine, intuit ones which are trying to fore-tell you the good or not-so-good realities in life though your expectations could be diametrically opposite.
