Thursday, May 17, 2012

Economic State of affairs of Countries in Simplified English Grammar

If someone asks you to describe the economic state of affairs of countries in as few words as possible, how would you do that?

Well, I tried my hand at taking the help of English Grammer, and here are the results:

USA                                                                                                                 - Past Perfect
(Has a great recent past, economically, but future looks bleak)


Eurozone                                                                                                          - Present Tense
(Going through hell right now)

China                                                                                                                - Future Tense
(I think it is going to be a tense future there)

India                                                                                                                  - Hyperbole
(Too much talk by Govt, and precious little by way of action)

Dubai                                                                                                                - Full stop
(Went full throttle and abruptly stopped)

Singapore                                                                                                         - Exclamation
(Wow! What a growth fora tiny nation!)

USA and China's mutual dependence                                                              - Paired Construction
( One cannot survive without the other, for now)

Bernanke's testimony to Congress                                                                   - Figure of speech
(His speeches are full of figures, but nothing else of substance)

Greece continuing in Eurozone                                                                        - Etymology
(Etymology in Greek literally means " putting dissimilar things together)

Obama's State of the Union Address                                                                 - Rhetorical punctuation
( Full of rhetorics like " let us change the world"... nothing has changed)

Pranab Mukherjee saying " austerity measures needed" ahead of raising taxes  - pre-position
(Warning to people to be prapred for more taxes, so that corrupt netas can continue to swindle even more)

Eurozone crisis along side American economic collapse                                    - Conjunction
(They always seem to happen in pair - the rise or fall)

The US Govt indulging in Quantitative Easing  to stop the economic rot           - Interjection
( Desperate bid to halt the momentum of economic decadence)









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