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Writing is easy

We write to record a happening
We write to prove a point.
We write to argue with those unseen readers who oppose our point of view.
We write just to share the information in a systematic way so that the readers could remember in order to use the information in later stages.
All this involves writing for a purpose of the day to day happenings. We call them an article of argument or reflection. They consist of in depth information as they present for a thesis. Or a presentation. It takes the help of visual aids such as ppts or short informative videos. These writing forms include the various. This is writing for general purpose.People who like to make writing their profession become journalists, editors or content editors.



 Some would have the passion for writing but are indulged in other professions or established activities. Here writing is a vent out for the internal intensities. Writing them in words relieves them of the emotional or professional burdens. This equals a mind work out. These are amateurs. They write to express themselves. Literary works are the best examples for this. Writing a diary was considered as an art in the olden days. Now that lead to online writing in the likes of maintaining Facebook Pages or Blogging. But they could not be as secretive as a dairy.

One can limit the access and decide who could read them. But the data remains the same. This further lead to a regular readership on internet. Amitabh Bachan's blog is the best example for this.

Writing is Easy...
Reading a book is a hobby for some. While reading, the lines flow and the eye moves on them. The content forms a picture in our mind to correlate itself with our emotions too. Literary fiction works often have this impact. For general articles we need not impress the reader much. But the literary piece needs to be wrote, groomed and perfected. A continuous cropping of redundancies and addition of verbal cosmetics (finding decorative vocabulary) is a necessity. THis demands a better levels of reading and writing.

Once you attain sufficient levels of vocabulary and a grip on imaginary levels certainly makes a person feel "WRITING IS EASY"

-- noenglish

How many likes you got

From mother tongue, we move to the art of making words. Languages have different methods of making words. Before we proceed further let's refer to those methods opted in making words.

Like Unlike
These two words remind me of my confusion of their frequent usage as icons on Facebook. When I opened my FB account way back in 2008, this like vs unlike used to poke my mind. How can the word Like be used as an antonym for Unlike. Actually its Like Vs don't like and Hate stands as an antonym for Love.

Some more food for thought!

Sometimes social network sites promote particular words with a meaning altogether not applicable to it at all. Here we have these two words LIKE and UNLIKE. The vocabulary on Facebook, we see these two words placed side by side.
Like - is taken for the equivalent of liking the pic or the status or the video.
Unlike - this word is considered that the reader did not like the post or the status or the pic or the video.
Coming to the observation of the meaning of these two words gives us how wrongly we use words with wrong applications.
According to the grammar rules Like is a verb. 
eg: I like the film.
Liked is the past tense form.
But Facebook changed the grammatical verb into a noun. And we often hear this "Look! my pic has one hundred likes.
Or
My posts never get likes at all. I don't know why.
Or
How many likes you got?
Unknowingly we are influenced by the applicability of the word and started to use it as a known very comfortably.



Let's get back to the word's meaning once again.
It is used to mean to enjoy or approve of someone or something.
Usually we say
I like to hum melodies while driving.
You like her, don't you?
 Now see the drastic change in the usage of the word.

Now let's look at 'Unlike'
This word's meaning is "different from" and comes under the category of Preposition.
Monica is a shy girl - unlike her younger sister!
The Tech fest went well, unlike the previous year when very few people came

Another meaning is 'similarity' in ways of behaviour or appearance.
eg: My sister looks like me.
Your brother is not like you. {similarity in appearance/ways of behaviou)
Unlike - Different from, not similar

Such is the power of the social networks. The social acceptance makes right to be used in a perfect  way that is very much wrong. It's not a matter of right or wrong. Do you used it or Don't.


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