In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
--Karl Reiland
--Karl Reiland
Eager to preserve the English language against a rising tide of nonsense, we asked readers to compose a piece of prose crammed with as many infuriating phrases as possible. Christopher Howse is amazed and amused by the torrent of replies...
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I hear what you're saying but, with all due respect, it's not exactly rocket science. Basically, at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is you have got to be able to tick all the boxes. It's not the end of the world, but, to be perfectly honest with you, when push comes to shove, you don't want to be literally stuck between a rock and a hard place. Going forward we need to be singing from the same songsheet but you can't see the wood from the trees. Naturally hindsight is 20/20 vision and you have to take the rough with the smooth before proceeding onwards and upwards. The bottom line is you wear your heart on your sleeve and, when all is said and done, this is all part and parcel of the ongoing bigger picture. C'est la vie (if you know what I mean).
Less than 200 kilometers from the Capital of India, a scene of barbaric brutality, a mindless medieval mandate that has cost the lives of a young newly-wed couple.
Manoj and Babli got married on the May 18, not realising that their village panchayat would take strong objection to this.
The panchayat's logic was that both Manoj and Babli were of the same gotra and that, in the eyes of the panchayat, makes them brother and sister.
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Their bodies thrown into a canal, hands and legs tied up and were cremated by the police who declared them destitutes.
Finally, under pressure, they acted, arresting three people on charges of killing the couple but even then, the alleged killers show no remorse.
“Those who do wrong have to die. Law does not recognize this but society punishes such people,” said one of the accused.