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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Telugu will never be the same again!
19 Apr, 2003 l 0318 hrs ISTlDEEPA RAO/TIMES NEWS NETWORK
RECENTLY, on International Mother Language Day, discussions centred on how Telugu is dying as a language. Don't know what they would say if they heard teen-speak these days. Ask a youngster "Are you going somewhere for the vacations?" and you might get a cryptic answer like, "Anta scene ledu le." For a "How do you like your new teacher?" â "Katthi la untundi ra" is the reply.
Welcome to slang Telugu. Not that it wasn't spoken until now, but so far it was infra dig to be speaking in the vernacular. But now, as Santosh from Chaitanya Bharati school says, "It is in vogue to speak in Telugu. If we're playing cricket and somebody is not maroing runs, there's no more 'stupid, idiotting' them.We say, "Baavi lo dooki chacchi po ra." (Jump into the well).
These are some of the milder ones.When guys see girls, wolf whistles and 'Kya potti hai" have converted into 'Arre baap, potti chaana sexy ga undi'. "It's a mix of Hindi, English and Telugu. It's a cool language," says Arun Bhaskar, an engineering student.
Adding as an afterthought, "But we do ensure that we don't speak this way in front of teachers." The language is a melting pot of dialects from Telangana and Rayalseema, as well as filmi one-liners.
Now, even schools like HPS, Chirec and Bharitiya Vidya Bhavan have cliques of students who speak this way. Of course, purists don't like it. Says Kalpa Rao, an exasperated mother, "It pains me to hear my son speak Telugu this way."
Comments Parchuri Gopalakrishna, chairman of the Official Language Commission, which is working on reviving Telugu, "I don't like the way so many English words have found their way into our language."
But many others are tolerant and say, "Any language has to evolve. This is part of the process." [my comment: it's not evolution when you forget even basic vocabulary for mom, dad and friend but a sign of decay, death & shamelessness of Tenglish speakers]
hyderabadtimes@indiatimes.com
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19 Apr, 2003 l 0318 hrs ISTlDEEPA RAO/TIMES NEWS NETWORK
RECENTLY, on International Mother Language Day, discussions centred on how Telugu is dying as a language. Don't know what they would say if they heard teen-speak these days. Ask a youngster "Are you going somewhere for the vacations?" and you might get a cryptic answer like, "Anta scene ledu le." For a "How do you like your new teacher?" â "Katthi la untundi ra" is the reply.
Welcome to slang Telugu. Not that it wasn't spoken until now, but so far it was infra dig to be speaking in the vernacular. But now, as Santosh from Chaitanya Bharati school says, "It is in vogue to speak in Telugu. If we're playing cricket and somebody is not maroing runs, there's no more 'stupid, idiotting' them.We say, "Baavi lo dooki chacchi po ra." (Jump into the well).
These are some of the milder ones.When guys see girls, wolf whistles and 'Kya potti hai" have converted into 'Arre baap, potti chaana sexy ga undi'. "It's a mix of Hindi, English and Telugu. It's a cool language," says Arun Bhaskar, an engineering student.
Adding as an afterthought, "But we do ensure that we don't speak this way in front of teachers." The language is a melting pot of dialects from Telangana and Rayalseema, as well as filmi one-liners.
Now, even schools like HPS, Chirec and Bharitiya Vidya Bhavan have cliques of students who speak this way. Of course, purists don't like it. Says Kalpa Rao, an exasperated mother, "It pains me to hear my son speak Telugu this way."
Comments Parchuri Gopalakrishna, chairman of the Official Language Commission, which is working on reviving Telugu, "I don't like the way so many English words have found their way into our language."
But many others are tolerant and say, "Any language has to evolve. This is part of the process." [my comment: it's not evolution when you forget even basic vocabulary for mom, dad and friend but a sign of decay, death & shamelessness of Tenglish speakers]
hyderabadtimes@indiatimes.com
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...813709.cms<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->