And what would the source of humour be?
"As a Thambi*, it is not unnatural to believe in the widely regarded notion that ONE can supposedly SPEAK Telugu merely by the addition of -soo,-roo and more popularly the -loo to the end of every word in Tamizh to get its equivalent word in Telugu".
What's more, this is such a widely acclaimed school of thought, that it is subject to ridicule and slander. How so? one may ask.....well, there are countless movies in Kollywood that can back my statement. Comedian Vivek, putting it to good abUSE.....
Now I'm here to speak nay defend my foster homeland against this very conviction and render it passive to the best of my effort.
It all begins when a word is spoken is English, that's where fate is sealed
Books become booksoo, pen becomes pennoo and so on and so forth, mostly because most of the words in Telugu end up with the aforementioned syllables.
Sounds- oo, written to produce the sound of oo in woo or loo.
THIS for some reason WE find extremely hilarious, I know i did till some time ago.
But, then it dawned on me......not too long ago......i heard my own voice in a conversation with my Thambi peers......We are not a whole lot different form our "G" friends with regard to regional language influence on our English....we also do get have something similar to the soo, loo thing.
We have it's TAMIZH EQUIVALENT, the "mirror image 6"or "uae" which blissfully encompasses everything.
Books become booksuae, pen becomes pennuae.
"THE uae sound"- remember the sound errrrr as in hesitation, shorten it to a really small fraction of time, is how you get the sound.
Why WE get away with it (if we do get away with it that is)is how this post ends and it is primarily down to two reasons
1. It doesn't slip out that often
2. It is not nearly as noticeable as the soo, roo and loo dudes, that linger on for just too much time for the others to notice it.
*-Tamil Nadu guy as is called by the others. Like Mallus to Malayalees
The SAD part is I don't remember any shit about vowels sounds to explain this properly.
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actually, it is rather noticeable... I know because I'm in Trichy, which, besides being flooded with thambis, obviously, is also home to a lot of Gults... It is quite sad, really... I, now really understand how Hitler must have felt about the Jews.. I mean, you can't call a microwave a TV in a gult accent and get away with it..
A very good observation venki...mayb u were destined to be a linguist.... but that aside wats the situation in warangal between the 'TG's and the 'AG's
dai venki..how come u stopped writing we are all waiting for the alliterator's penmanship
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