Mind your LINGO!!

No am not talking about interpersonal conversation.. use whatever language u want to.. uh uh… sorry pardon me.. use only marathi when ur in Maharashtra!! (Apologies to the ones whose sentiments got hurt when I said ‘use what ever language u want to..’ ) I forgot that though we have the freedom of speech we still have ardent leaders (don’t be surprised am calling such a loser, a leader. he/she is still the leader of some front) who insist we speak the language they want us to when in their territory or context.

 

Infact one is also not allowed to use old names of their own city when the new name is in existence. Poor Mr.Coffee with diKAshAN (now don’t tell me the spelling is wrong!!, I know u r smart enough), was witty enough to apologize immediately (obviously he dint want any of his latest films getting banned or whatever, mind you I used the word banned and nothing else tat is illegal ;)… I have to play safe too u see :P). So better watch your words, you never know when, where, who is listening to your crap!!

Now this was about anyone speaking and one person retaliating. And then you fear for life and livelihood. There is another place and context where you need to measure each and every letter you communicate.. And in this place one person speaks and a thousand retaliate… ironic but that’s the fact of today’s high tech life we live…

No business class tickets for the ones who guessed it right! Yeah.. am talking about our dearest Mr.Twitter!! ( I don’t think anyone else whom I know/heard of ever deserves this name more than this person). One thing that he could do to increase his pay cheque every month is ask twitter to pay him some royalty/goodwill.. for the publicity and name that twitter got cos of him. It is just tremendous!! (though it generally is the other way round.. but in this case he helped promote twitter more than the marketing honchos sitting in that multi storied headquarter)

 Anyways getting to the point.. Does any other top official in the country have the GUTS (in bold) to speak their mind in a public forum? Tat too in writing?!! This person does, obviously thanks to twitter for such a facility and a fraction of a million people following each and every character he writes. Be it a humorous comment on austerity or on the teachings of the father of the nation or on the amount of work pending in his office… ( is any of tat ur business??!! Get a life!)

But does that mean we also need to draw a line somewhere? Not necessarily!! We are a democratic country with ‘freedom of speech’ (at least tats what I learnt in my civics classes!). As far as one is not hurting anyone (obviously that doesn’t mean you can’t say what u feel cos someone else feels otherwise), not just ending up doing just the talking and no work at the end of the day!

By the way before I close this piece of writing, I must make you aware that am not following this person on twitter! I feel its too much an effort for me to log on to twitter and follow the process to follow him, I’d rather get the latest updates with the latest comments on those updates and the analysis of all this in the leading dailies every morning (how convenient you see!! Thank u media! ;) ). Sometimes I just wonder, is it the media using Mr.Twitter to fill their slots or is Mr.Twitter using the media to be one of the most well known Twister.. oops Minister!!

Anyways all I would say is “Mind Your Lingo!!”, someone somewhere is watching you and u never know when u get bashed up for any word tat u blurt out intentionally or otherwise.. Hope some media takes notice of me too… I ve not been careful at all!! Why would one be if that increases the probability of getting free publicity ;)

Today’s Favorite Line - You try from your side... If you feel they are not responding then chuck it.. they just don’t deserve it…

Today’s Favorite Song – More than a friend (Michael Learns to Rock)