To err is humour.

Hmm.. was thinking of what to blog about, and voila.. a Lecture at college(ya sometimes it pays to listen), made me wonder at the nonsense we put up with, in the name of classes, cos here's a lady who thinks her sole responsibility is to re-invent the English language while teaching Artificial Intelligence, like hitting two birds with one stone. So well, she's teaching us some "concepts", and we aint listening of course, when suddenly she starts telling us about pets that we keep in our house, citing poodles as an example.Now the problem demanded that the poodle be fluffy. Alriight we say, but she comes up with her magical touch:

Ma'm: What's fluffy? girls, can u tell me(clever way of saying...my ignorance gives me the power to question)

Class: (bleary eyed, wondering what important event caused her to wake them):fuzz? hairy? (wateva..get done with it already)

Ma'm: (A look of satisfaction hiding her actual relief at this discovery): YEsss, hairy, VERY hairy (One pauses to think of other double meanings that cross one's mind)..Have u seen new-born babies?they're SO fluffy..(oh GOSH, I'm awake now..what the heck did she give birth to?)

Anyway, if that werent enough, we move on, to the all important piece of information she gives, on an example for transformation: "When we were born, we were babies, but now we're not."(You don't tell me..dammmn, I'm numbed by all this knowledge hurtling towards me in one day)

She also likes to repeat herself in ways unintelligible to human kind.. for instance, the time when she wanted to say, (well I dont know what she wanted to say eventually), but she ended up saying,
"The commonality of the common person in the common surroundings of the person and his commonality ......................." (blink...blink....passed out).
Sometimes she emphasises her point with a whole lot of synonyms, figuring she might as well use all the words she knows.Ex: 'Illustrate, graphically with the help of a diagram, by drawing..........'

Other minor statements like "He'll be also useful it" are just a part and parcel of her class, so much so that we're actually lauded for answers like :

Ma'm: U dearr, tell me what i mean by knowledge representation?

Me: eh..um..(humming Aao twist karen..) representation of knowledge?

Ma'm: Yes, Very good ... it is the representation of knowledge, the way knowledge is represented.(I thought I was good at word permutation, but this puts me to shame)


Oh well, if not for her, work would seem more like, you know.. WORK! So hats off to her, for providing the much needed comic relief, even if it's done unknowingly, I need to stop now, and go explain that Cleopatra is NOT pronounced as Cellopatter.. so until next time, its ta from me.