As Karachi’s premier social event showcasing the edgiest, most profound art, attended by the intellectual and liberal cream of the metropolitan city turned controversial for all the wrong reasons, the entire country, on Sunday, was thrown into a tizzy as the nation struggled to grasp the correct meaning, spelling and pronunciation of the word ‘Biennale’. Story of the forced closure of an installation at the event was quickly taken over, in terms of virality, by heated debates over how the word is pronounced. Just a word!” commented one bystander unable to control his emotions, breaking down in tears. The Dependent’s research wing calculates around 99.2% of Facebook users, in their comments, had spelt the word wrongly, the closest version being ‘Biennale’. At time of writing the writer had used Windows autocorrect a mere two times.

Source: Pakistan Today October 28, 2019 15:56 UTC