Damn! I Thought I was Right!

When you hear someone say something that's the opposite of what you've always believed to be true, don't dismiss it. Pause. And ask yourself-how might they may be right? Maybe you were wrong. Maybe you misheard the lyrics

- Prakashlyer

REMEMBER THE NAZIA Hassan song from the 80’s “Aap jaisa koi meri zindagi mein aaye…”? It was quite a rage, and an entire country seemed to be dancing to that tune. I remember singing the song day in and day out, and the lyrics I sang went something like this: “Aap jaisa koyi meri zindagi mein aaye, to baap ban jaye!” The “baap ban jaye” I learnt much later was in fact “baat ban jaye”. But given the vibe of the song, and Zeenat Aman singing it on screen, my lyrics seemed to make a lot of sense. To me at least.

Much, much later, I learnt there was a word for this phenomenon. Mondegreen. Which means a misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song. Wow! Didn’t know there was even a word for that.