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28 June 2024 05:52

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“Good morning, sir.”

“Good morning.”

“Sir, I shall like to know the difference between ‘talk to, and ‘talk back’.

“Well, before I go on to ‘talk to’, I’d like to say something about ‘shall like to’. You must say I’d like’ and not ‘I shall like’. ‘I shall like’ and ‘I will like’ are wrong. (I’d) stands for the contracted form of ‘would’ and it is ‘I’d like’ that is used in conversation and informal writing. ‘I should like’ is used generally on formal occasions.

I’ll give examples:

I’d like to meet him.

We’d like to go to a movie.

I should like to present the annual report now.

‘Would like’ and ‘should like’ are polite ways of making a statement. People who consider Fowler’s Modern English Usage as their Bible may disapprove of ‘I’d like’ and ‘we’d like’. Fowler felt that ‘I should like’ and ‘we should like’ must be treated as proper forms. However he himself added: But here ‘would’ has long been encroaching.... It is now more frequent, as common as should if not commoner. Fowler wrote this several years ago. Now would like has almost displaced should like.

“Let’s move on to ‘talk to’ and ‘talk back’. You talk to others when you want to tell them your views and find out their views. ‘To talk back’ is to reply discourteously or rudely.

When the boss asked the clerk to apologise, the clerk talked back to the astonishment of everyone.

I hope I am not talking over your head. Do you know what ‘talking over one’s head’ means?”

“Yes sir. I use it when I can’t follow what somebody says. But you aren’t talking over my head.”

‘I’m happy to hear that. By the way do you look so tired today? Anything wrong?’

“Sir, I came by walk today.”

“Did you? No wonder you are tired. You generally come by bus, don’t you? You travel by bus, by train, by car, by bicycle and so on. But when you walk the distance, you don’t say ‘I came by walk’. You can say ‘I came on foot’ or ‘I walked the distance’. Don’t say ‘I came on feet.’ It is ‘I came on foot‘. Also notice that in these contexts, there is no ‘a’ or ‘the’ before ‘train’ ‘car’ and so on.”

“What is gobbledegook, sir?”

“It is ‘writing, especially of officialdom that is pompous, wordy, involved and full of long latinised words’. The word is of American origin, but is used in Britain too. I’ll discuss this off and on.

I will give an example now:

“To reduce the risk of war and establish conditions of lasting peace requires the closer coordination in the employment of their joint resources to underpin these countries’ economics in such a manner as to permit the full maintenance of their social and material standards as well as to adequate development of the necessary measures“.

Do you understand this?”

“No, sir.”

“It is high-sounding with little sense in it. That’s gobbledegook. More about this later.”

“Thank you, sir. Goodbye.”

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