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Amazon.com techies forgot their english lessons ;)
When you buy any item from amazon.com they send you a mail after your item is shipped. The email which comes to your email id comes with a message saying “Your Amazon.com order of “[Item Name]” has shipped!”. I had observed this grammar error long back but thought the mistake is minor and then forgot about it. Thinking they might correct the grammar, I didn’t bother to send out feedback mail like I always do when I come across some errors or faults on websites/products etc.
But when I ordered this book from amazon.com recently the same grammar mistake filled mail arrived again. I thought to hype it a little and put it up . So here it goes…
Wrong usage currently used: “Your Amazon.com order of “The Kite Runner” has shipped!“
Corrected: “Your Amazon.com order of “The Kite Runner” has been shipped!“
They forgot the present participle – “been“. This correction seems a necessity as its a routine mail thats being sent to everybody who buys stuff from amazon.com. Even though this seems very silly, I thought it would be necessary for them to correct as this is a common mail
I hope they read this post and correct it . Check the screenshots below. First More >
Why was BMW’s Greek Premium Used Car Ad called “Shameful” ?
Ad Text: “You know you’re not the first.” Most simply described “BMW premium used cars are so beautiful, it won’t matter if you’re not the first driver”
Brandy Schaffels wrote on Automotive Traveller:
Everybody on the American women’s blogging network is talking about a recent BMW ad (pictured at the right). And all of them are offended by it.
According to Interpol: “Age of consent for sexual activity: The legal age of consent for sexual activity is fifteen (15) years.” Whispering: Did you know they also allow nude sunbathing on the public beaches there? Some might also consider that offensive. I would simply like to remind “Different strokes for different folks.”
When the fact is clear that that was intended for Greek audience and the information above about the sexual consent is clear, why create a fuss about it. Instead of taking it personally, we should appreciate the way the ad was made. The fact converted so very nicely to an ad which conveys so much about the car !
I liked this sentence from the article by Brandy – “Trust me: BMW marketers spent a lot of time, money, and research developing that ad for its intended market. The fact that we are offended More >
Media Not Taking Any Sides? – 3 Idiots & Five Point Someone Issue
Lets list out the media comments and articles from different newspapers and sites. No site or newspaper has taken sides of any of the two parties, either 3 Idiots nor Chetan Bhagat’s. Media seems to be very clever in such issues. They remain silent to see how the controversy grows and gives more hits and readership to the papers and their sites . All the articles on the news sites don’t confirm anything concrete even though they have seen the movie and read the book too ? Why is everything left to the readers? If you people know the truth and believe in it, why not publish something concrete so that people will know whats wrong and whats right ?. Between.. the video by Raju Hirani and 4th Idiot site has umpteen convincing reasons about who is right and who is not ! Check out
Media Articles (without taking any sides):
India Today – 3 Idiots resembles Chetan Bhagat’s book, say readers
Express Buzz - Chennai spots Five Point Someone in the 3 Idiots
Business Standard – Three Point Someone Idiots
NDTV – 3 Idiots could sue Chetan Bhagat?
TOI – 3 Idiots is Five Point Someone: Chetan Bhagat
OneIndia – “3 Idiots retains the soul of Five More >
Harmonious Kannada Music – Overdose?
There was a time when kannada music was really soothing with a real blend of style and variety. No doubt, the music experience is still soothing but with less intermixture. The annavaru era was the time where we had an amalgamation of traditional classical, sooper romantic, senti and dance numbers. Those songs had a diverse melody in them and we can say present day music sort of has it in them and as well as not. This might be lightly controversial and disturbing statement, but its very true.
If you can recollect the number of good songs which have been coming up since 2006, we of course owe a lot to the amazing music maker Mr.Mano Murthy and his uncommon style of producing melody. But, wait a little and refresh your memory ! Even other music makers started cloning his style. Yeno antaar alla “atiyada amruta nu visha agatte” antha. Its not that this style of slow style music isn’t good or wasn’t done before and it isn’t experimental, but… there were several genre of music too – not just a single frequency trend (i hope you got it !).
Let me take you back to 2006 when this form of euphony More >
Ishqiya Trailer
This is what you call a real Trailer..
Exclusive First Look at Ishqiya From the Makers Of Omkara, Manorama Six Feet Under…
Video:
Mariah in Mohit’s Chauhan’s Debut Solo Album – Fitoor
Mohit Chauhan rocks again with his album “Fitoor”. It presents his originality of style with his unique voice. Being a huge fan since “Silk Route” – boodein, dooba dooba…Fitoor is quite catchy. The album has a lovely lady in the album. Mariah is a Brazilian model who is the video. The video looks quite nice with switching different bits and pieces of shots taken at different places. Every blog post or news site has written about Mohit Chauhan’s album, but none have told or written anything about Mariah… (thats the reason I wrote this ). And she is looks gorgeous in the video rather than in this two-piece
Watch the video on youtube – Fitoor – Mohit Chauhan
Check the lovely brazilian lady – Mariah on Maxim India
