Are you surprised? What is wedding anyway? It is the welding of two hearts and their families. Well! that seemed to be the attitude of my printer too. He cared more for the meaning than for the actual words in the wedding card!
I did not realize his attitude till my "mind reader" best friend pointed it out to me during card distribution. My printer is an ardent Shakespeare fan, it seems as he religiously followed-"What's in a name we call it a rose, rose by other name smell as sweet". Hence, he changed "Princeton" to "Princetion" on the reception card so also Carnegie to Carnegic.
I cannot blame him, as these days spellings have lost their significance. Look at one of the Greek yogurts-"FAGE" is actually pronounced as FAYEH. Why can't you spell it that way anyway! Though my printer does not live in USA, he has - eastern living and western thinking.
My brother pointed out that he printed Princeton correctly on the first card (Wedding) and it is just copy and paste for the second card (Reception). What can I say but, he remained sober for the Wedding but turned inebriated for the Reception even though I have eliminated alcohol for the actual reception, I could not prevent my printer getting intoxicated and pronouncing Princetion!!
Those who have already received the cards, just feel the emotion and do not focus on the printer's pareshaan narration.
as the day gets closer you will have more to write
ReplyDeleteKeep it coming, Pradeep!
all parents w/ texting teens gave up on spellings long ago.
Lakshmi Pasumarthy
Im sure we will find our way to the place one way or the other. How about convincing Radha to run a parallel editorial on "mother of the bride"??
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