University corrections continue… and i relieve the utter tedium by jotting down interesting bits from answers. Here are today’s picks:
- As soon as TV media came into picture, most of the media had fallen week
- Then to there is no death for newspaper media
- In the field of politics it is giving us recent info (on television news channels)
- Youth magazine is generally famoused among youth – eg. Cosmo women and men
- Magazine like JLT that is just like that in that all issues of celebreaty is covered
- Developmental Journalism is a social economic problem
- The Bangalore Place is a famous place in India. It is far from Bombay. Bangalore people language are Urdu, Bengali, Hindi Maximum
- Situated in the lower end of the Himalayas (on Manali)
- Under the shadow of the Sahyadharis (on Mahabaleshwar)
What is scary is that the paper we set was one that a brain dead hedgehog — or a student who had never attended a single lecture — could pass. But, stuff that is going wrong in quite a few papers are fundamentals. We won’t even go into the fact that most of these are functionally illiterate in most languages (or can communicate very little in most languages) — but look at stuff like general knowledge, basic stuff . Two days ago i blogged about a student who wrote that the language spoken in Hyderabad is Tulu. Today there is a student who writes that the language spoken most in Bangalore is Bengali, Urdu and Hindi … I know that the ITES boom is getting people to Bangalore…but……
A few years ago while making [tag]Dial One aur Jeeto[/tag], the live interactive gameshow on [tag]Sahara One[/tag] – we had a caller who’s answer was “Chin ki Rajdhani Cochin Hai” (The capital of China is Cochin)…. and we laughed…. but today, we seem to be putting out graduates like that. And these are graduates who have a high probability of joining journalism as a profession.
My favourite is “Then to there is no death for newspaper media”. You’ve got to give it some points for literature unapologetic of its local culture. That’s someone who must read a lot of Narayan from Mumbai.
That’s scary, maybe they’ll learn how to spell too?
hi sriram … yes… but this is across the board bad writing, and complete lack of knowledge of the basics about India. Language is secondary == there will always be an editor who will fix that… what do you do about lack of fundamental knowledge……people in Hyderabad do not speak Tulu, people in Bangalore do not speak Bengali…Cochin is not the capital of China….:)
Hi Vi,
same as above. spelling, grammar and half decent sentence construction is the second step (and it is a bit too much to expect in today’s day and age because language itself is changing)… let them learn the basics first… Basic 1st and 2nd year civics..:)
My observation is that whenever I write about my grammar gripes, the loudest protests come illustrating why they protest. Now I am given up my strong desire to be the human Tipp-Ex and I leave the comments in, in all their illiterate glory.
At some level, it is quite pathetic and I am not even talking about those who learn English as a second language. These are monoglots, sodding monoglots.
He Shefaly,
welcome to this blog…..
lol..human tippex is an interesting concept
My problem is not so much with the grammar as getting fundamentals wrong… there is another list of these which still has to be put up…..!!
most of my music collection is gone…it used to be on tape and i had painstakingly built it up over the years. and then, technology changed….
I have some mp3’s…. but the mainstay is radio — there is this channel on Worldspace that is 24 hours of old HIndi music — complete manna from heaven..