In the morning when i was reading the phrase I was stuck in a sentence which read:
““The teacher descended upon the exams,sank his talons into their pages, ripped the answers to shreds, and then, perching in his chair, began to digest."
As an average reader i didn’t understand these lines.This seriously need our text simplification.Same-thing i felt when i was reading some IEEE papers on text simplification. The sentences in the papers are very difficult to understand.There were atleast 3 complicated words in each sentence. It took me five to ten minutes to read a sentence,find the meaning of the words and then understand the context of that sentence. I don’t know why people make such statements with complicated words. Why is this need for people to complicate English??
We in text simplification group are going to do some field work on this tomorrow. Which will be an exciting and useful task. An experiment on our beloved and highly qualified teachers. The text-simplification group has done lots and lots of literature survey on simplification of text but we are more interested in finding why people make English language so complicated that the average readers find difficulty in reading and understanding it.So we start this research task by experimenting on our teachers. We want to know practically what makes people to complicate text.This experiment is going to be very exciting and i am sure that we will get lots of input from our highly qualified teachers which will be an important factor to be taken into consideration.
In preparation for the event of "Field Work" for our Project Text Simplification assigned to us,I am very excited to speak to my teacher's and experiment on them.
Well coming onto the process of Field work, we are going to ask our teachers to write a simple text on any topic first.Then we will ask them to complicate the written text obviously our teacher's donot require any use of thesaurus or dictionary as we did:):). I am very sure if I would have experimented this on Sudarshan Sir,Sir would have made us to use thesaurus for each simple sentence:)
This episode will continue:) I’ll update the status of our field work tomorrow:)
I see valid points in this post Ambika ,liked it :)
ReplyDeletehaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa innocently humorous :P
ReplyDeletewhy is highly qualified teachers stressed so much through out the article ? thankfully you didn't include them in quotes :-)
We teachers should be lucky to have a complimenting student like you :-))
Btw, that last paragraph about me....... was wondering whether it is a compliment or an insult :P :P
Very nicely written :P . Am longing to hear you write about your experience during field work.
(Took extreme care not to use complicated words through out my comment :-) )
Hey include some nice thematic pictures to make your blog more appealing (you have already made the appeal with your humour. Thanks for heeding to my advis on your prev blog)
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ReplyDeleteobviously it's a compliment sir :):)
ReplyDeleteHey Ambika nice write-up:)waiting for your next blog:)
ReplyDeleteGood blog Ambika :)
ReplyDeletevery informative ambika:)
ReplyDeleteNice thought, go ahead.
ReplyDeletehmmm waiting for field work event result:)
““The teacher descended upon the exams,sank his talons into their pages, ripped the answers to shreds, and then, perching in his chair, began to digest."
ReplyDeleteNice :-)