My English is not so weak. Our school final class teacher Mr.Ananthapadmanabha Iyer was a great devotee of Johnson, Boswell and had fascination for Wren and Martin grammar. I still remember the day when Balu alias Kullan could not spell the word "apologetically" and the entire class was asked to sit for one full hour after school time and write "apologetically" 100 times. Later on we learnt that the misspelling was a deliberate action by Kullan to settle score with ottarakuchi (thin as stick) Gopu who on the previous day was the cause of some group punishment. As a result Kullan and Ottarakuchi were kept away from Gilli-dandu till they came apologetically and expressed their "sorry".
When we talk of English I remembered an old English joke. A royal lady invited a Lord and a rustic villager for a dinner.
During the dinner the lord impressed the lady by asking, with rhyme and rhythm "Lady Divine! Please pass on the wine".
Not to be let down, the rustic man produced his rhyme by requesting the Lady's husband, " Friendly Bas%*@! Please pass on the custard". You can imagine the consequence.
Coming back to the subject, the topic is senseshan and not sensation. I had two colleagues Mr.Sen and Mr.Seshan who believed that the legs are there to pull. One day Sen asked Seshan " Saar, can you tell me comparative and superlative degrees for I”. Seshan replied, "I does not have degrees of speech". Sen replied coolly " I, Iyer and Iyengar"
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