Wah Crazy English..!

Wah Crazy English..!

Recently there was a report which said In India English has become 2nd Major language. Barring Hindi, most people who speak other Indian Languages use English as main language and their mother tongue as secondary or even third language.

Bengali which was first language after Hindi went to third place and gave its 2nd place to English!

In India, 55, 14.00,000 people use Hindi Language while 12, 50, 00,000 people speak English. English Speaking people are twice in numbers in India when compared to Briton.

Though it is funny language we love and speak it even more than Englishmen!

I, still remember my school days. When I was studying in High School my Teacher Mr. Angri Shankara Bhat, of course he was Hindi Teacher used to explain the specialties of English.

'English is such a language where we write one thing and read another whereas in Kannada or any other Indian Language we read what we wrote. For example the word ‘Psychology’ which we prounce as 'Sychology'.

In a funny way he used to say 'navu oduvudu sychology bareyuvudu piskalogy.

In the same way for word 'walking' we read as 'waking' but write as 'walking' (Oduvudu waking, bareyuvudu Walking).

One Interesting mail from my friend B.K. Ganesh, remembered me my school days where enjoyed these funny specialties of English.

I don't know who is the author of this mail or writer of funny write-up below. But definitely it is interesting to read. Pls enjoy it. I thank B.K. Ganesh for forwarding this mail.

UNDONE..!

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England ..We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English could be running the danger of being called verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

We ship by truck but send cargo by ship. We have noses that run and feet that smell.

We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway. And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?

I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN

PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS GERMS!!!

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara

Attempt to balance Rural and Urban Development

Attempt to balance Rural and Urban Development

Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa who presented the State Budget 2010-11 on Friday 5th March 2010, attempted to balance the Rural and Urban Growth by providing Rs. 500 Crore to 'Jalasiri Andolana' to built 2 Lakh Water Recharging Units for stabilising agriculture while proposing Rs 600 crore urban infrastructure development programmes.

To improve power supply in rural areas for irrigation pump sets in 126 Taluks, he proposed Rs. 1200 Crore investment grant to Power Supply Companies in 70 Taluks for Nirantara Jyoti Project in the year 2010-11. He said the Project will be materialised in two years.

He proposed to establish 'Antarganga Sookshma Neeravari Nigam' with Rs. 100 Crore investment, Karnataka Mavu Mandali with Rs. 10 Crore, Food Processing Development Corporation with Rs. 10 Crore. He said Agriculture Sciences University will be setup at Shimoga with Rs. 10 Crore, Horticulture Collages will be setup at Mysore, Hiriyur, Shirsi, and Koppal with the assistance of Rs. 5 Crore grant each. He also proposed University of Animal Husbandry at Athani with the grant of Rs. 15 Crores. He said an Institution for Sugar also will be setup at Mandya.

While increasing taxes on tobacco as also slapping a toll of Rs 500 on heavy goods vehicles entering the state to raise revenues, Yeddyurappa, who also holds the finance portfolio, announced reducing VAT on some commodities, including, masala powder vermecilli and schools bags, from 12.5 per cent to five per cent, the state would end the 2010-11 fiscal with a revenue surplus of Rs 51.42 crore.

The Rs 600 crore allocated to the urban development programme "Mukyamanthri Nagarothana Yojane" will be spent on developing seven city corporations, 44 municipal councils, 94 town municipal councils and 68 town panchayats.

On tobacco products value added tax was raised by 2.5 per cent while an upward revision ranging from 1 to 2 per cent was announced on the motor vehicles tax.

The life time tax on two wheelers with selling price of up to Rs 50,000 was raised from eight per cent to ten per cent and vehicles with selling price from Rs 50,000 to Rs one lakh from 10 per cent to 12 per cent.

Additional resources of Rs 249 crore is expected from the changes made in the motor vehicles taxes, he said.

The budget also proposed a toll of Rs 500 on every trip made by vehicles of more than 16 tonne weight in transporting materials, including mineral ores.

Yeddyurappa sought a vote on account for four months till July 31 PTI adds.

As per the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2009-10, Yeddyurappa said, the total revenue receipts are expected to be Rs 55,381 crore against Rs 61,070 crore in the budget estimates.

The RE of total government expenditure was expected to be Rs 60,051 crore against Rs 62,414 crore estimated in the budget.

The final deficit after taking net of public account is likely to be Rs 44.80 crore, while it was estimated to be Rs 43.08 crore in 2009-10 budget.

On the 2010-11 budget estimates, he said total receipts are estimated to be Rs 68,564 crore, consisting of Rs 53,639 crore of revenue receipts and Rs 2,903 crore non-debt capital receipts.

The total expenditure in 2010-11 is estimated to be Rs 70,063 crore consisting of Rs 53,138 crore of revenue expenditure and Rs 16,925 crore of capital expenditure.

The government expects to collect Rs 36,228 crore of tax revenue and Rs 2,820 crore of non-tax revenue. The total central transfers, including taxes and grants, would be Rs 14,591 crore, he said.

The revenue surplus is estimated to be Rs 500.49 crore, while the fiscal deficit is estimated to be Rs 9,708.46 crore, which is 0.15 per cent and 2.96 per cent of the GSDP respectively.

This is in accordance with the stipulations made in the Karnataka Fiscal Responsibility Act 2002 for the current year, he said.

Imput Courtesy: Various sources including PTI. To view the Budget details in Kannada click the image above.

-Nethrakere Udaya Shankara