Mediocrity rules the Day ! - Page 2

Originally posted by: *Maya*

The above sentence says it all. I will give an example from my experience. In Class VII our English Ma'am divided the entire class into groups and gave us situations of a Shakespearean drama and asked us to write about it. I used dictionary and used the toughest words possible and also wrote everything as much in Queen's English. In my opinion we did really good compared to other groups. When the grading came the other group got higher grade than ours and I was surprised at a mediocre work getting more grade. This is what the teacher told me 'Write simple and interesting. Don't thesaurize your composition. Don't try to impress your reader with big words.'

As I said before mediocrity is relative.

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Jus a note:

With no offence Maya...

I would not see thesaurizing a writing or a composition as losing its essence. Its all about conveying the point across , be it using better words or in lay man terms. Its all about being able to express.

A simple write up can fail to convey the point and so can a thesaurized write up...

Language at the end of the day is just a means of expression and it is up to the author to use it at his will to express emotions!

I am sorry , but I fail to see how the writing has been compared to mediocrity, it seems to have completely differed from the point of discussion.

I understand the purpose of this debate was to discuss mediocrity as a general perception and not jus for writing...

Mr Velu, correct me if I am wrong, was this the intention of the debate?

Originally posted by: sareeta

Jus a note:

With no offence Maya...

I would not see thesaurizing a writing or a composition as losing its essence. Its all about conveying the point across , be it using better words or in lay man terms. Its all about being able to express.

A simple write up can fail to convey the point and so can a thesaurized write up...

Language at the end of the day is just a means of expression and it is up to the author to use it at his will to express emotions!

I am sorry , but I fail to see how the writing has been compared to mediocrity, it seems to have completely differed from the point of discussion.

I understand the purpose of this debate was to discuss mediocrity as a general perception and not jus for writing...

Mr Velu, correct me if I am wrong, was this the intention of the debate?

I don't think I am moving away from Velu's actual topic. What I wanted to emphasize is that what according to me was a mediocre work was the one which was appreciated by my teacher and the reason given to me was 'to use simple and legible words to make my composition more interesting so that it can reach wider audience'.

Here our perception is different and that is why I mentioned few times already that Mediocrity is relative.

Originally posted by: velun

Is it not true that India in spite of not producing any World defining products or technologies is considered to be a technology super power and software companies are moving here just to cut costs and have cheap GOOD LABOR though not highly exceptional labor.

Mediocrity is relative but the fact that India is considered technology super power and software companies depend on the Indian talent proves that India is an equal partner and the whole world knows that. The so called supreme companies cannot survive without Indian "mediocrity" which makes India on par excellence.

From zero to technology superpower in less then 50 years is no small feat.

i strongly disagree ya true sometimes mediocure people r given preferance but not always certainly not in all reality shows.its just a matter of perception.its not abt being mediocure there r other factors which lead to make a winner.for eg the hard work the x factor as they say,the way u can relate to a candicate and many other things.
as far as india being a technology superpower if the whole world is saying that thn it canot be false.
one of the hinderance in india becoming a ceveloped country is that many indians lack patriotism we dnt appreciate our acheivements which is really disgusting.
and the pregudises like indian think something is better thn nothing or indians r lazy and all that or they r not efficient is all nonsense now wht more proof so u wnt?1/3 indians in NASA most doc. in america indians 1 IIT is more intelligent thn whole of harvard they work for 6 dyas a week rather thn 5 days.
if still us indians only cnt appreciate it thn i dnt knw wht to say?

"The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance of the third rate".
Eric Anderson

• We are pleased by mediocre jobs, which we have glorified due to sheer money earned through them, while failing to realize that somebody else in the US could be making 3 times more for lesser work provided.

• We are pleased by the mediocre movies we make and bother to send to international award competetions. (MOST MOVIES and the acting therein is PATHETIC imho) I am not even beginning to talk about TV shows.
  

• The whole country is proud of a bollywood actress who simply well-behaved as a composed human being against a person of no intellect or class.. on a reality show. We are pleased so easily!
  

• We are so involved in ideal-worship, that although many of our star players need to retire now, we are very pleased with a mediocre cricket team

• We are going to be looked at as a population mass for drug testing, but we are pleased to be that in the name of our next step into the future of pharmaceutical industry

We seem to be loving mediocrity.