Oxford Dictionary’s lexicographers study linguistic trends every year and announce a word annually. In the past words like ‘GIF’ (2012), ‘selfie’ (2013) and ‘vape’ (2014) have made it to the list.The close contenders this year were ‘dark web’, ‘refugee’, ‘they’ and ‘lumbersexual’, among others.
It has been a rain socked Bangalore for the past couple of weeks. No complains there. But now it has also become increasingly cold, chilling cold. Temperature outside went below 18 degrees, and its even lower inside. Time to bring out the room heaters.
Further south, its raining elephants in Chennai. Its flooded everywhere, and they have brought out boats into the streets.
It is a pity that even though India is known for its monsoons and huge torrential rains, the country still gets submerged in even the slightest downpour.
While the death toll from the rains is still climbing (60 at the moment), cricket-crazy-dumbos are complaining that a test match between India & SA had to be cancelled due to the rain.
Google is now releasing more of their doodles, more frequently now. And this has opened up a few job openings, at traditional news agencies ! I couldn't help noticing that every time a new doodle comes out, all of the nations dailies put aside a separate article about it.
Here's some from a few days back. Google released a doodle on Hedy Lamarr's birthday.
And it can be seen that every paper in the world is covering it.
The individual articles are examples of worst news reporting. They are nothing more than content from the subject's Wikipedia article.
The NDTV article was written by a Aditya, and it seems all this person does is cover Google doodles.
Pathetic.
