Thursday, December 28, 2006

The ‘I’ word

To complement my earlier confabulate article, I am writing this. Its not that I have gone mad with the English words. It’s just my observations and I how relate and connect them, ultimately to bug you. I was reading an article some time back. It was a result of a survey. A survey carried out by a company to find out the most used word in any business conversation and to do this, they could not get any other better place than a call centre. The word/letter was ‘I’. I personally think it is the only alphabet in English which is both a word and a letter. It was found that on an average the agents used the word ‘I’ for 60-65 times in a conversation. It just shows how important the word is. It is not a mere word/letter, it is YOU’ described in a single alphabet. The physical embodiment of you, your identity, your ideas, your thoughts, your life and ultimately ‘YOU’. It is so weird that we don’t think of such things in our daily life. As I mentioned earlier in my ‘confabulate’ article, the ‘ear’s’ wish is never taken into consideration. Observe a typical conversation between any two, you would always see the ‘I’ factor. The person would be waiting to let off some information about him/her and the same holds good to you as well. No wonder there are centres set up just to listen to ‘I’’s story. Did you notice how many ‘I’s I have used in this small article. That is the power of ‘I’.

8 comments:

Harsha S Rao said...

Nice obsersvation!!

Anonymous said...

Sometimes you do make some nice observations

Guru said...

@Harsha and @Anon:

Well, the TRIVIAL is all about such observations. A few more to come :)

Rafiki said...

Tough I is the shortest word it is the heaviest word allva?

Guru said...

indeed rafique...

Anonymous said...

:) nice write-ups. Nowadays even 'YOU' is becoming another letter cum alphabet.

Anonymous said...

did I say alphabet!I guess U got it right.

Guru said...

Anon: I dont know about YOU... but I am sure of 'I'