Posted by: Sarkozy July 15, 2008
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Lahure Dai,
When I read your postings in this thread, I got reminded of the following quote by C.S. Lewis: "Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite." I don't mean and attempt to offend you but your overall writing and the way you present here reflects the attitude that this thread is really attempting to uncover: that the students of the so called elite school are hypocrite, verbose and showy. Sometimes, the use of verbosity does in fact have a political implication-- to use words as a weapon to rule over the common folks who don't understand without the help of a dictionary. Is that what you are trying to do? Is that the way you are trying to disengage your cult "XAVARIAN" with the rest of others?

Contrary to what you seem to believe, simple writing is not the product of "village attitude". A simple, unpretentious style has both grace and power. By not calling attention to itself, it allows the reader to focus on the message. I would not unnecessarily preach you about the use of language here but since you "implied" so many time that you guys are really good in terms of English language, I tried to feel the "Xavarian" nerve! What do you want us to focus while we're reading your thread? Compel us to frequently turn dictionary? Let me drag some of your pretentious and pompous wordings which in fact reflect your Xavarian mentality:

plaudits
decorous
disenchant
brusquely
truculence
solicitous
recalcitrant
......many more

At the same time, see the context and consistency of such words: in no time he mixes the filthy four lettered words with the "Xavarian" words to make a lingual porridge (पिन्ड बनाउन ). Stop it boy! Did the Father instruct you to make सराद्धे of English this way?
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