To My Friend... (Anil)

by **Anil** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 7:09 pm

Sunny, I am afraid, I can\'t be of much help in this aspect. Maybe try http://www.bizland.com. I think its free for 1 year, I am not sure. BTW, ignore Pavani\'s suggestion. I am sure you are aware of the whitehouse.com site. Its an adult site.
 
 And Pavani, this is for you especially. I also know that this will have no effect on you but thought may be I should give a try. The time you are spending to put those irrelevant and pathetic images is not even worth of it. They are not evoking a forced smile! Moreover, the moderator is unceremoniously deleting them. So, what are you achieving and what\'s your purpose? If you think, its humor, then I pity you. Or, if you are gaining some vicarious pleasure posting weird postings and replies, you urgently need some professional help. Well, to put it simply, mildly and very succinctly, Please grow up or give up!

by **pavani** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:48 pm

From today you are my friend as well.By the way, your sentence If you think, its humor, then I pity you should read as If you think its humor, then I pity you. there is NO comma after think. just wanted to let you know because you are an english teacher. hahaha.

by **pavani** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:50 pm

Thanks for opening my eyes, Anil.

by **Anil** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:00 pm

Pavani, I am neither an English teacher nor did I ever claim to be an authoritarian of this English language. And BTW, that comma was intentional. Read the sentence carefully again. The only thing I forgot was to put the word think in quotes!

by **sunny** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:16 pm

Anil, I think Pavani is a girl (technically). I don\'t think any girl from Andhra would behave in such a way (although boys do)... and Pavani... Anil\'s just saying what he has to, ok? He is not writing an essay here. So his language resembles the practical version of expression. U don\'t have 2 worry \'bout grammar here.... like Anil said \"grow up\"... ciao

by **pavani** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 12:56 am

I am not an english genius either (see I even I type in lowercase most of the time) but this sentence IS wrong if the comma is placed 
 If you think, its humor, then I pity you 
 just reflect on the sentence. in the past, lives have been taken and lives have been spared because of adjustment/moving of the comma. 
 if you say If you think, its humor, then I pity you it just does not make sense. try telling that sentence aloud over 10 times or so, with the occassional pause after the commas. then you\'d realise that there is indeed NO comma after the think. don\'t take it too seriously... just play cool. I only wanted to tell you that what you posted about intentionally putting the comma was not really right. take care.

by **Anil** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:30 am

Pavani, should we continue with this comma/pause or give it up? Well, I give it up. I know what you are trying to say. Anyway, if my remarks have offended you in any way, I apologise. Believe me, I meant nothing personal and it was all in good faith. And, you are yet to answer one of my earlier questions - why are you on this picture posting spree?? What\'s so fascinating?
 PS: Let me know, if there were any misplaced commas or any other punctuations! Happy friendship day!

by **pavani** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:22 am

hey anil, no hard feelings yaar. sorry if I hurt u too. I was just trying to make a point & I get very stubborn sometimes. anyway forget it. happy friendship day. haha I posted those pictures because someone taught me how to embed pictures in html. I wanted to be a little naughty and post some funny pictures. did u see the one with saddam\'s WMD? it is nothing vulgar but just to lighten the monotonous text that we see here.. all text and no pictures makes it a dull site

anyway take care.

by **Anil** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:29 am

Ahem! Care to share your secret of how to do that? I mean embedding the jpeg/gifs. No, I don\'t intend to post any pictures here (let\'s spare the moderator additional burden).

by **pavani** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:06 pm

hey anil the poor moderator removed my earlier posting in which I told you how to do the posting. so if you give me your email address I\'ll mail you the procedure.

by **Anil** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 3:28 am

Ah! That never struck to me. I wouldn\'t have used it to flood these boards with images but nothing would have prevented others to learn from your posting and indulge in it. Anyway, thanks!

by **pavani** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:50 am

this term is called hotlinking, and if there is any graphic on the web that you like you just hotlink to it, for example the one below:: 
 
http://www.zooish.com/_borders/frog_unicycle_sm_wht.gif
 
If there is a picture at http://www.zooish.com/_borders/frog_unicycle_sm_wht.gif, all you have to do is type
 
 
http://www.zooish.com/_borders/frog_unicycle_sm_wht.gif
 
and you get it embedded here.. now quickly copy the commands or else the moderator will remove it hehe

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by **sunny** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:06 am

hey Guess Pavani is NORMAL now.. good 2 see that happen. and Pavani thanx 4 the HTML thing....

by **Andhraite** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:05 pm

\"Ahem!\" - what does that mean? Man, saw this many times, but can\'t understand... May look silly, but...

by **Anil** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:20 am

Hey Andhraite, hope you are not drawing me into yet another controversy of using simple language ;-)

Well, the expression \"ahem\" is used to draw attention to. Its similar to what you do with your voice (as we say in telugu - \"gonthu savarinchukovadam\"), just before speaking in a gathering, to draw everyone\'s attention. Its also used when you are about to ask something inappropriate, a secret, or want others to put a stop to some \"unpleasant\" conversation!

by **Andhraite** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:24 am

Thanx , dude !!!

by **sunny** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:41 am

see that\'s the reason why i started this board... very informative ha?!? btw Anil could u give me the exact usage of the word \'stereotype\' ?

by **Anil** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 10:47 am

Starting with the etymology, the word \"stereotype\" originally refered to a method of printing with a plate. It comes from a French word meaning \"printing by means of a solid plate of type\", from the Greek stereos (\"solid\") and the French type (\"type\").
 One misconception with the word stereo is its often presumed as something referring to \"two\". For e.g. stereophonic sound (mono versus stereo) or stereoscope. But the word root has nothing to do with \"two\" at all
 Stereophonic is simply \"solid sound\" (probably coined to describe the effect of two-channel sound transmission to reproduce the sound separation of live hearing). Similarly, by \"stereoscopic\" image, we are doing nothing but producing an illusion of a solid image (the technique however happens to utilize two images). In simple words, a stereotype is a collection of qualities all members of a particular group are assumed to exhibit. Actually, some people do argue that stereo refers to two!
 Coming back to your question, it is commonly used to refer to something or a person whose image has (or thought to be) not changed much. Some of the sterotypes are mad scientist stereotype, sexist stereotype, or the overly friendly and boisterous sardarji stereotypes in our films, etc. Examples for usage in sentences: 1. The African Americans in United States have been stereotyped for hundreds of years as ignorant, violent, poor and incapable of success.
 BTW, you might have heard the related french word cliche\'. It usually refers to any oft-repeated sentences, trite phrases, hackneyed themes, or just anything that has become far too familiar! I better stop, before I start sounding cliche-ridden!

by b. » Thu Aug 07, 2003 11:18 am

Somehow I am suspecting, that the Andhraite guys are slowly trying to be friends here:)

by **Andhraite** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 11:24 am

there is nothing to suspect , man
 We argue over athing which i feel is not correct in my sense , thats it , it atrts with that & ends there , but it doesn\'t mean that i don\'t like them , and i hate them ...
 its just that i don\'t agree with him over something and say \"my say\" ....

by **sunny** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 3:06 am

hey man thanx a bunch... yeah i know the word \'cliche\'. Anil i didn\'t tell u what i am doing right now. i\'ve just graduatd in computer science engineering and am stuck ona dichotomy road. not able to decide between MBA & Software (or M.Tech). do u have any suggestions? well giving my CAT exam this year but am not aware os one bit of the MBA senario. which one do u think is promising man?..............
 ....................... PS : sorry to put u always in a councilor like situation all the time.

by **Anil** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:44 am

Hmm... That\'s difficult. I mean it. Firstly, I don\'t think I am the right person to help you get over your dilemma. Secondly, even if I did, what\'s good for goose cannot be always good for gander too!
 However, on a more positive note, a dichotomous path is far better than being at the crossroads! Everyone of us has to pass this stage at least once! No one is immune from this career ambivalency. OK, if I were you, I would go for M.Tech. and postpone my MBA to a later stage. Maybe after getting a job and working for 2-3 years, I can go for a part-time MBA. Anyway, you are the master of your domain and destiny and you are the best and ultimate judge. No one knows better than you about what\'s best for you. Well, the very best to you, whatever path you are planning to tread on!
 
 hey man thanx a bunch... yeah i know the word \'cliche\'. Anil i didn\'t tell u what i am doing right now. i\'ve just graduatd in computer science engineering and am stuck ona dichotomy road. not able to decide between MBA & Software (or M.Tech). do u have any suggestions? well giving my CAT exam this year but am not aware os one bit of the MBA senario. which one do u think is promising man?..............
 ....................... PS : sorry to put u always in a councilor like situation all the time.

by **Anil** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:49 am

Oops! Looks like I inadvertently copied your posting too! Sorry about that. And no, I don\'t see myself as a counsellor nor do I want to be one. I guess, here we all are sharing just our thought processes and experiences, a sum total of what we did, what we are doing, what we should have done or shouldn\'t have!

by **Learner** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 4:34 pm

Thanks Anil, you write beautifully, we all appreciate your effort and time in sharing your views and experiences here. We all are grateful. Keep it coming.

by **sunny** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 8:04 am

That was optimistic. Sure if I were to confront a crossroad then gone case! Anyways, thanx 4 the advice (I suppose it is spelled \"Advise\")... But you know how things work right? Getting into a good Uni\' for M Tech demands arduous work. But I\'d rather get over with that and start working on getting into M Tech. You are right when you said work experience counts when doing MBA... Last year 85% students had work exp\' when they joined IIMB. 
 BTW my sister\'s interested in getting into MBBS, but with her rank (in EAMCET) I don\'t think she\'ll make it. So she has decided on doing Bio-Informatics. Is the course expectant? Or is Bio-Technology good??? 
 
I just saw HULK... all crap man. I guess it\'s the worst Hollywood movie this year. Background score sucked, except for Adam Clayton\'s number. And the graphics were devastating. \"Paathala Bhairavi\" was much better...

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