KEEP IT SIMPLE !

It sure is difficult to keep things simple in life. People talk of simple living but it is not as simple as it seems. All my student life i have heard my favourite teachers  (especially english) stress on the fact that we need to keep things simple.

Of late i have started blogging on a more regular basis. I also invite my friends to read my blogs. One of my friends Sailandra Harsha (shailu) called me up to compliment me on my blogs.

He said that my expression capacity in english was good. But he insisted that i explained to him what i had written. His point was that no matter how well i wrote, it would be difficult for him to understand my vocabulary.He hit the nail right on the head.

Of what use is all the matter we write if we can't make it simple.It's true that the use of proper words makes the sentence short and its meaning, precise. But all this talk reminded me as to how we regarded english speaking a valuable skill in school.

My school memories came alive as i talked with shailu over the phone.In the fourth standard, we had this notion that speaking english at bullet speeds was what we needed to learn, thanks to our limited exposure to english cartoons and movies.

Slowly it dawned on me, thanks to my teacher Mrs.Anuradha & Mrs.Subbulakshmi that speaking fast wasn't so in after all. The very purpose of language is to communicate properly and effectively.

It was then that i realised that imitating foreign accents wasn't what i needed to learn.However, I also realised that i needed to keep my accent as neutral as possible.

As my vocabulary grew I realized how certain words made my sentences more accurate in their meaning. But here too there was and there still is a lesson to be learnt. I realised that i needed to make use of words more commonly used so that what i wrote or said would interest more people.Also the length of my blogs is what i would like to reduce.

So here goes... all future efforts to blog will concentrate on using simple, plain yet effective english. and yes I will try to keep the blogs compact. 

After all, "small is powerful" :)