Samit Sharma
Published May 22, 2015
Hiya there !!!
I’m sure if I don’t pick a consistent greeting anytime soon, I’m gonna run out of greetings. There might be a dark day, when I greet you with a casual hello. That would really be a dark day in the history of email blasts.
I tried learning a lot of different languages over the past two months. Now I have a hotchpotch of basic French, German, Spanish and Latin in my brain. I should’ve stuck to one language and mastered it, but like I said, I hotchpotched. But I nailed some accents. Accents don’t need a particular language. So I practised and did well with Italian, Spanish, British, Scottish and Australian accents. Sounds like a lot, but it’s easy to pull off. And thus, I found a new forte. My new mojo in infancy : accents. Cheers to that.
All those languages and accents did some damage too. I’m forgetting Hindi. Or whatever Mumbai dialect of Hindi I speak in. I realised that I now don’t speak in Hindi a lot. Or listen to a lot of Hindi. So I took a test. I tried writing something in Hindi. And whoa, there was some vocabulary decay, the first phase of language Alzheimer’s. Grandma said I need to start reading Hindi books. But I won’t. I’m fine with English ones. And here’s a bumper sticker proverb that might make it big if the Government bans ‘Horn OK please’: LOVE THY MOTHER TONGUE. And make sure you don’t forget it.
Enough for ’tis week, people. The good thing is, I love English, and Email Blasts are in English. Hooray. And my hometown’s doing great in the IPL. Double Hooray.
‘Tis, mate was Weekly Email Blast, Email 9. Happy Holidays.
All Things Sam 