Causative Verbs

Managers, you listening? this piece of language belongs to you guys. Don't get me wrong as I am not in a mood of any mud slinging here. It's the evolution or the need to introduce 'Causative Verbs' in language is for the breed of people who want to get the things done.  As a first person, they cannot do these things or it's better to say that it's gets awkward and incorrect when some actions are described without Causative Verbs.
I am sure most of the pundits of the language will laugh on my attempt to describe it and they may even find it funny and unnecessary to read this piece as they are already well averse with Causative Verbs. However, this blog is actually not the right place for such pundits, this place rather belongs to those less fortunate who have a strong desire to learn the language but due to one reason or the other, they fail to realise their dream of mastering this beautiful language.
From my personal experience, I got a great Guru in form of Bakshi Sir who selflessly took me under his tutelage. However, I couldn't do any justice to his sky high hopes from me and I would never be able to pay his debt in my lifespan but sharing a few things that he taught me would be a tribute and my Gurudakshina to him.

To come back to the topic at hand, Causative Verbs. If I put it in simplest possible manner, Causative Verbs means "To allow/force/Convince/assign someone to do something"

1st Usage: To Force someone to do something. Trying using "Made/Make"
example: I made my daughter to brush her teeth before going to bed.
 

2nd Usage: To Convince someone to do something. Try using "Get/Got"
example: It's hard for government to get people realise the importance of paying taxes.

3rd Usage: To Allow someone to do something. Try using "Let"
example:It's important to let the children play daily.

4th  Usage : To assign someone a task or responsibility to accomplish something. Try using "Have/Had"
example: Doctor had his assistant to deliver medicines at patients home.


Correct usage of causative verbs eases out the sentences that otherwise appear ill formed or awkward while speaking. On a funny note, before the advent of causative verbs, a father printed the wedding cards for his daughter's marriage and the starting lines were, "It's such a auspicious day and I have been waiting for this all these years. As I want to marry my daughter, I cordially invite you to grace the occasion and bless the couple".
Thank god, the embarrassment didn't continued for the generations to come after the birth of causative verbs.

Oxymoron, Awfully Pretty

As the word 'Oxymoron' itself suggests, there is nothing usual about it. First it takes a word and then combines it with its contradictory cousin to form an Oxymoron.
In your school days, you must have heard your teacher saying, your hair are little big. Now, that's was an early exposure to the world of oxymorons but little I knew that these weird combination of opposite meaning words had a world of their own.

\Let's look at few of the commonly used oxymorons in our lives. Some are oxymoron by birth such as "There is abundant poverty in this country". Each word in this combination conveys contradictory meanings.

However, there are some oxymorons which joined this sect due to reasons other than their actual meaning being opposite to each other. Let's take a look at few such oxymorons. "This airline's food is horrible" , here, airline and food are not contrasting words but it has earned its oxymoron's status through years of consistently bad food served on flights.
A recent oxymoron that I heard on air was when a TV news anchor questioned his correspondent - "Are these rumours accurate". A new one that I can call my own invention is, "Indians and Pakistanis are living in Nuclear Peace".
As an amateur expert on this subject, I would now start to close this topic of oxymorons. In my future posts, I will try to explore a little more on various other funny aspects of this language. I expect you to forgive the shallow depth of my American English.