A RULE OF GRAMMAR

When I was a kid I was taught about vowels and consonents. I was taught that I have to use 'a' before a noun that sounds to start with a consonent and 'an' when it sounds to start with a vowel. Have you ever wondered behind the reason of this very rule of grammar? I , as a kid, wondered and thought upon it. May be for some it would have been an obvious rule to understand.But for me it was not. I thought upon it. I do not remember how many times I wondered upon this rule and how many times I thought upon the reason of creation of such a rule.It was just another rule in grammar like many others and all the grammar books used to teach us this basic rule in the very begining.One day came when I deduced the reason behind this rule and I was so happy to do this. Some things we learn ourselves and no book or no teacher would teach you.Perhaps the same would have happened with many of you.

This is one of the things I rememeber today of my childhood days.Here I mention the reason that sounds so obvious to think.How does it sound when we say 'a' apple, 'a' alarm, 'a' umbrella, 'a' hour or 'a' era.It sounds as if we speak two vowel sounding words, one after another, without any separating factor.Of course, a momentary pause between them works as a "little separater".But again, the "little separator" almost vanishes when we speak fluently.In addition to it, the English language is supposed to be spoken fluently as it is done by the native speakers.So 'an' emerged and the sound of 'n' acted and has been acting since, as a "significant separator".But why 'n', not 'l' or not 'b'? I have to do some research again on this, but a guess is that 'n' would have taken the least effort, phonetically, to speak in between two vowel sounds and would have sounded a "significant separator"! So 'an' apple.'An' era.'An' umbrella.'An' hour.

All in all, point is that how many times we understand things ourselves without any piece of documentation.Everything is logical.Few thing might look subtle at first sight but they do work with a logic.Even exceptions have got a reason for being exceptions!

Media, the Octopus and Us!

I wanted to write(actually write off) something about the fucking Octopus fuss, and I found this place to be the best one to express myself.I genuinely feel that this is what in my mind today.

Firstly I wonder about the very educated and the very developed society which can make so much fuss about 'an Octopus making predictions' or other creature which are made to (sit on)/ pick a team's flag.Football is a game and we all can go crazy about anything.But can we go crazy to such an extent that we overlook the rules of simple probability.Just 2 teams, and choosing one of them-this simple mathematics is unknown to that ignorant creature.But why do we make the creature do the act?If one does, why does the insane media makes it reach us.Even if it reaches us, why the fuck we do give it a damn shit !??

Can't we just overlook such a fuss and just not talk about it.There are hundreds of other grave issues in this world which need attention.So why the Octopus or any other creature?Is it because this has not been proven wrong or we got an excuse to get some fun out of it?No wonder media makes it memorable in the coming years by tagging it to the world cup 2010!

What a SUPERSTITION in a well educated and civilised society?

कृति

खून की एक बूँद
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जिसकी कलम से
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नज़र नहीं आती उन्हें
वो लालिमा
शायद उन शब्दों में दिख जाएँ -
वे सन्दर्भ
जो लिखे हैं मैंने

हर शब्द
हर पन्ने में
मेरे हों -
है यही कोशिश मेरी,
पर क्यूँ
कुछ शब्द
यूँ
अनायास ही आ जाते हैं |
ये गलती -
क्या उस 'बूँद' की है
या इस भूगोल की ?
या चाहता है
वो रचनाकार
एक नई--
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