Epilogue
After my last Blog on the Cricket WC, I decided I would leave the job to the experts like Rajan Bala & Harsha Bhogle, I better be doing what I am best at. Retrospection – reflection of thoughts, theories of life, what’s right & what’s wrong. The idea of throwing your thoughts open on a blog, sounds as gamble to most people, but I have to admit that my most of blogger friends whom I know personally have caught me by surprise with their unique thoughts and certain aspects of life, which we probably would never have discussed face to face.
Euphemism !!! don’t get carried away by the title of the blog, I am not a MA in Literature or Phd in English.
“Honesty is good, but Euphemism was invented for a reason” sounds a philosophical quote by some great individual, not quite, one of my friends from Graduation had penned it for me on my slambook (yeah may sound silly now, but I managed to capture all those Quotes in one of those books). To be honest it didn’t make much sense to me, but then I would like to borrow a Quote from my friend Gajanan who said “You don’t need a book titled ‘1 million copies sold’ to teach you something, a small child can teach you"
“Honesty is good, but Euphemism was invented for a reason” sounds a philosophical quote by some great individual, not quite, one of my friends from Graduation had penned it for me on my slambook (yeah may sound silly now, but I managed to capture all those Quotes in one of those books). To be honest it didn’t make much sense to me, but then I would like to borrow a Quote from my friend Gajanan who said “You don’t need a book titled ‘1 million copies sold’ to teach you something, a small child can teach you"
For people who have been wondering WTF is Euphemism, I had to google it when I heard it from the first time.
Euphemism
defination: A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker.
Antonyms
dysphemism - offensive or merely humorously.
cacophemism - sense of something deliberately offensive.
power word - used mainly in arguments to make a point seem more correct.
Euphemism
defination: A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker.
Antonyms
dysphemism - offensive or merely humorously.
cacophemism - sense of something deliberately offensive.
power word - used mainly in arguments to make a point seem more correct.
Personally I come across as a very straight forward person who is brutally honest, (thought a few people would out rightly deny my claims) and I was very proud of the way I speak to people. I always believed – A hidden truth can cause more damage than a lie.
The key to being successfully is not just Hardwork, dedication, passion or smartwork. Its about knowing where you stand & where you start off from. (sounds philosophical ???)
I always have great respect for people who are realistic in their approach towards life. And I Love making people realize where they stand (yeah as if God has sent me on this planet just for this). So with a great sense of pride I used to criticize people as if it was my birthright to do so. It has gone well with a few people and not so well with others.
I regret occasionally having said something or done something in past, in the name of straightforwardness I have ended up insulting people. Had recieved a fair share of reverse criticism
I didn’t know what politically correct statements were. I screwed up my first job because I didn’t know how to make ‘politically correct’ statements and ended up leaving it in 10 months. Doesn’t mean I have changed much but I have definitely realized the value of sweet talk, glorifying the work you do.
“Truth is always Harsh” & “You learn your lessons the tougher way” may have been significant sayings, which are just confined to books, calenders and desktop wallpapers, but they hold no good in today’s world.
Euphemism has a long way to go…. Let me rephrase it.
Adapt Euphemism If you want to go a looooong way !
There is thin line of difference between Euphemism & Sarcasm, and that’s where I seem to be hanging now !!!
PS: The opinions or views mentioned by the author in this article are definitely influenced by occasional madness/frustration that normally lead to occasional states of retrospection. The readers are hereby warned not to pass funny comments or ridicule the author.
The key to being successfully is not just Hardwork, dedication, passion or smartwork. Its about knowing where you stand & where you start off from. (sounds philosophical ???)
I always have great respect for people who are realistic in their approach towards life. And I Love making people realize where they stand (yeah as if God has sent me on this planet just for this). So with a great sense of pride I used to criticize people as if it was my birthright to do so. It has gone well with a few people and not so well with others.
I regret occasionally having said something or done something in past, in the name of straightforwardness I have ended up insulting people. Had recieved a fair share of reverse criticism
I didn’t know what politically correct statements were. I screwed up my first job because I didn’t know how to make ‘politically correct’ statements and ended up leaving it in 10 months. Doesn’t mean I have changed much but I have definitely realized the value of sweet talk, glorifying the work you do.
“Truth is always Harsh” & “You learn your lessons the tougher way” may have been significant sayings, which are just confined to books, calenders and desktop wallpapers, but they hold no good in today’s world.
Euphemism has a long way to go…. Let me rephrase it.
Adapt Euphemism If you want to go a looooong way !
There is thin line of difference between Euphemism & Sarcasm, and that’s where I seem to be hanging now !!!
PS: The opinions or views mentioned by the author in this article are definitely influenced by occasional madness/frustration that normally lead to occasional states of retrospection. The readers are hereby warned not to pass funny comments or ridicule the author.
6 comments:
i think its incomplete..i no its flow of thots only..but i feel something is missing..coz u started teling something..got lost somewhere in middle wid something else..finish it up properly!!
Nice to see "your" talk coming on the post ... with a bit more of English :) !
LOL on the note. I completely ignored it.
Good luck on the sweet talk ra... lets see how well you adapt.
thats the problem with the bloggers..
Everyone turns into preacher!
:)
The only good thing about you post..i lwarned a few new word..will use it my coming posts :))
lol..well thankfully I have never been too critical abt things neither possessed that sarcastic tongue and the fact that I don't speak much in the office helps all the more otherwise kinda ppl I work with even I wld have been forced to leave my orgn. So a suggestion for u(welcomed or not welcomed)rather than offering honest views n getting into trouble why not avoid offering one at all.
whoa! stumbled upon ur blog & started reading it as i'd nothing better to do...ended up reading about half your posts! u write really well, inspite of that occational dig at trying to sound philosophical! Now this is neither sweet talk nor am I using euphemism ;-)
Keep blogging...
-Ravi
Well what can I say, there is a very thin line between Harsh and Harsha...(badmouthed and sweet amiable person) Speaking about straightforwardness I personally appreciate ppl who are straightforward, because atleast they show they have a mind that knows right from wrong... So I appreciated the guy who told me that I look gorgeous but my voice is not good... Now how many of u can ignore the pretty face and look deep inside the throat... Not many right.
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