Unlearnt

Unlearn v. (past and past part. unlearned or unlearnt) 1 forget deliberately. 2 rid oneself of (a habit, false information, etc.).

Apparently the word does exist. What it is asking you to do is to ignore the lessons of the past and commit more blithering mistakes to get yourself noticed. Something on the lines of “No publicity is bad publicity”

It would have been a more eloquent excuse in school, imagining myself that it would add up to my check list of “The dog ate my homework”, “I was sick” and the usual “I forgot”. But there was this substitute subversive yet discreet new word, unlearnt. What a fine addition to the vocabulary. I could picture myself romping home with a pat on the back for making an effort to learn something so atrocious and getting away with it. But that would have been a dream or I would be high on cocaine.

Either way a futile exercise, to coagulate something so heinous into a brain that would not accept something far less complicated like the Theory of Relativity.

That brings us to another question. Sticklers, what are they for? Where are the grammar police when you need them the most? Oh wait! They are busy wondering that why the hell in the scorched heavens did they bring about a word such as the 'metrosexual' and then coined it as the worst word that came up in which ever year it came “out”. That’s a pun by the way.
Why do things have to be complicated? Is it so that the discovery of the ineffectual questions would lead to self-actualization and then self enlightenment? Or is so that the more questions you have the more you sell.

Now, if I want to unlearn something by definition, I hear the best thing to do is to get a scalpel, extract your brain with it and then feed it to the pigs. The word is out of context and disorder and should be executed with a lethal injection after electrocution of course. And maybe the guillotine would follow and let’s not forget the pyre shall we.

I have a lot of words around recently. For instance:
'Unlearn' - Grammatically correct because the dictionary says so. Sad to agree but it will never be a part of my tongue.
'Misselling' - The guy who came up with this word probably got asphyxiated with the speeding lights in the middle of the road released a huge amount of serotonin and then God rest his soul.
'Upselling' - Coined by the editor of Balbharti and Yuvakbharti (for all those cultured by the Indian education system)…

For me it would be another day in the office. By day, accepting turd and conditions, (No, that is NOT terms and conditions) and by night fighting injustice in my mask and cape. Of course nobody bothers and the crime rate is high.
Mr. Pablo Escobar here I come.

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