Syntax

A queer question was asked about something to do with the words we use.
I got the opportunity to ‘spell’ out my observations out of eagerly and curiously watching the shifting attitude that I have been noticing in the youth (especially pursuing study of IT related subjects, circuit branches), when they even find quality time to re-look at deeper concepts of ‘life’ itself(consequently, a look, also at the fundamentals of life).

The bulk of feedbacks that I get out of interactions with these youth is that the ‘essence’ of what we discuss simply passes over the head, at times. Good! ( I rejoice when this happens! Out of deep love, not out of that sadism of having ‘needlessly’ tortured their brains! The need is fuzzily fulfilled. Well, this ‘need’ that I refer to is a bit mystic-need, and stupid-looking from the worldly-ways of looking at it.) What they note a bit later is that the words used for these interactions seldom need any reference to a dictionary. And yet, the essence doesn’t feel ‘chewable’ easily.

Some of the ‘elders’ around seem to ‘feel’ that the present day youth are trying to return to the precious ancient ‘values’ and rich cultural heritage of our country, Bharat. What triggered this turn-around could be various factors. But I can speak of one such factor with ‘logical evidence’.


My answer is about such one of the factors. (Those youngsters who have been fortunate to have been ‘victimized’ by this factor are awed, baffled, and what not, when they find that our ancient scriptures are bug-free, and do not need updating of ‘soft-ware’, OS , do not even need disk-space, etc, and have stood the test of time for centuries!)

Psn(6th May, 2010)

Quote:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100505165101AAayJIO
This is an amazing answer. What do you think?
"None of these words really fit -- it's more like synchronicity, but not. I wish there was a better word. I know exactly what you mean, like when you've never heard a word before in your life (you think), until you learn it, then you see in 5 times in the next 2 days, it's following you around!"I love how the web allows children to express themselves! (and gives us an off switch:-) They are the way and we have to hear them, if we do not then there is only one other way.

My answer:
After this computer came in, it has done a very good thing to us.For a long time, we have got away with using words to mean anything, nothing or everything. Now that syntax error, semantic error, bugs etc has forced a change into our attitude. We have learnt to use the exact word for what we mean. The side-benefit is that we learn to look deeper into words. The next level of side benefit is that our perception "tends" to deepen helplessly. We can see the evidence from all sorts of mind-boggling questions being asked in the sections of R&S, philosophy, psychology, etc!