Typos...

Just a couple of days ago, i got this mail from a dood called Hari, who was in my class in VIT ( i cant say i 'studied' there, so i was in that collge would suffice)
When i say " I got this mail", i actually mean " I also got this mail". Apparently, our class is doing the Yahoo groups thing. Its big and all that.

Anyways, cut to the chase, a bunch of fellas from my class had been to some alumni meeting at VIT (My MFC ;-), and were just writing lotsa stuff to the grps...like abt the college's infra and how much it has improved and stuff like that. And everybody that had been there mailed in pretty much the same thing, as if it was a goddamn assignment or something. I even noticed a couple of copy, paste jobs there. Real neat.

Ok anyways, thats enuff for the background. This dood Hari had also been there and done that. So, promptly he sends a mail across to the groups abt how he was moved to tears when he saw the old classroom and stuff like that.

This is what he wrote " saw our class peeing over the window.. Was moved to tears by that sight". Me and roommmate PC, who is also from same class, sit down and analyze it.

I reckoned that was a typo and he intended " saw our class peeping over the window" (Bad English maybe, but then you get the point, so its cool) which brought old memories to the lad and he was moved to tears. Right !

PC wudnt have any of it. His version goes like " He ( Hari) actually saw somebody ( read - mischevious students) peeing out of the window and that appalled him and brought tears ". I mean, something there in what he says, unless you start to think " who is gonna pee outta the window" which took us to this guessing game of who would have done that in our class.

After an hour of discusing the pros and cons, ( see, whoever told ya we are busy lads doin MS just sold you some horsehit. Never buy that. This is what we do most of the time.) we decide to ...... stalk it up for laters ( Topics this good for dicussion come up rarely).

Me, PC, Sami, Komi and VIJ do a Small email circulation amongst ourselves then, adding comments and having giggles ( Sounds so much like what girls do, now that i think abt it). That actually gave us a bang.

That enuff of what we did. Lets take the typos.
This incident reminded me of my slam book, where some body had posted that entry " I like your casualty". meaning " I like your casual attitude/ outlook" .

After reading that, i was like - Dood/ Baby..you just murdered me. and well, thats the way you like it. Makes sense.

How typos change the perspective and message you intend to convey so much kinda belies my understanding. Could you call it a coincidence - or a play on the words? Or the beauty of the English language ( Ok, thats bollocks, but what abt the others?)

This is akin the mail i received a number of years ago, an email fwd that ribs the Indian Telegraph system, which does its own job of editing important messages which the public send.

The one that readily comes to mind is this - A husband on a tour telegraphs his wife " I wish you were here". The message reaches his wife as " I wish you were her".

And other such prototypes.. I actually stored that someplace. Will hafta come back and add them up to the list. It might be worth it.

Yea, typsos ;-) are ok , but make sure you get the msg across.

Funnier types are the spoonerisms and slip of the tongues, which i refer to are the 'slep of the tingues'. Come to think of it - That really would be a slip of the tongue.