Dangerously funny quiz.Quite an information.But does the dude bloggers or twitters of today bother about it at all? Hardly. Millions of pages can be written on "COMMUNICATION SKILLS" and "GRAMMAR" but at the end of the day what matters is what is spoken and written should be understood by one and all irrespective of the language used.Eg the most despicable and irritating words being used by even intellectuals are "resign de diya" instead of resignation tendered and "bada danger aadmi hai" instead of a dangerous man. Further SMS MANIACS have made a mockery of style of any language written and spoken to the point of being debatable.
Re: Spell Bee
by Another Critic on Mar 02, 2012 04:16 AM
Depends on the person, people could go wrong with manuver, byurokrasy, enterprenor because of the way they are pronounced.
Broccoli and Supersede are pretty straight forward to me.
Re: Re: Re: Spell Bee
by Visharad Software on Mar 02, 2012 02:29 PM
I am sure he intentionally spelt that to show that some people could make those mistakes.
Re: Supersede
by Mail Reader on Mar 02, 2012 12:03 AM
You are right. 'Supersede' is the only word ending with 'sede'. However, I am in disagreement with the author as 'Supercede' is also correct. There are in fact, 3 nine-letter words ending with 'cede', namely 'intercede', 'retrocede' and 'supercede'.
Re: Re: Supersede
by Visharad Software on Mar 02, 2012 12:13 AM
@Mail Reader It is true that both 'supersede' and 'supercede' are in use, but better to write 'supersede'. Although 'supercede' has been in use for centuries, it is considered an error.
Re: Re: Re: Supersede
by Mail Reader on Mar 02, 2012 09:24 AM
I am an Oxford Dictionary / British English fan and follower and cannot take the side of Americans in this respect who have changed 'supercede' to 'supersede' for their convenience.
Re: Re: Re: Supersede
by Visharad Software on Mar 02, 2012 11:26 AM
I am also talking about British English. According to that, "supersede" is correct spelling.
Re: What about sanskrit
by Gajanan on Mar 01, 2012 07:11 PM
If you want rediff readers to know something about Sanskrit that you know well then do write to me I would love to publish it on rediff and few other websites/forum.
Re: What about sanskrit
by brijesh on Mar 01, 2012 07:26 PM
Sanskrit is a dead language....no point of publishing anything in Sanskrit now.....now many of us even know and those of us who know it, do we use it ? Is it a common day language ? Forget about its internationsl acceptance.....is it even our own national languauge ?.........
Re: Re: What about sanskrit
by Prasanth Balachandran on Mar 01, 2012 09:31 PM
Sanskrit is not a dead language...It is the medium of wisdome and knowledge..It should be popularized amoung new generation world wide..
Re: What about sanskrit
by virat v on Mar 01, 2012 09:59 PM
it shud b called sanskrUt. n not sanskrIt. englishmen hv done wrong spellings of ind culture/words, etc. eg ram is correct n not rama. dilli is correct n not delhi. merath is correct n not meerut.
Re: Re: What about sanskrit
by Kiran on Mar 02, 2012 10:51 AM
Even sanskrut and ram are wrong. We will have to blame the persian influence. Its so funny that people who blame the english for wrong spellings have forgotten how much of distortion has originally crept into their languages through previous foreign influences. Apabhramsa in Sanskrit literally means "corrupt" or "non-grammatical language". This is hat the modern languages of north india have evolved from.
