Have you ever wonder what we Indians *majority of us* have done to English!! Be it mispronunciation or using wrong sentences we are surely taking revenge against the British Raj on our country.
I am not complaining against it as these slips lead to rather unintentionally funny moments in our life. Lemme dedicate this blog to those funny moments in our life.
I always have problems in getting the pronunciations right for few words, especially the ones with Silent alphabet. Ever wondered why Psychology or Psychiatrist is written in this particular way only, or why 'Knight' and 'Night' two different words with different meaning and spelling are pronounced in a same way? Like in the words of our great Monisha Sarabhai "Why waste an alphabet, aise hi?"
My sister's classmate * a typical North Indian* has a special skill for
mispronunciation, he pronounced 'Budget' as 'Bood-get' and 'Future' as 'Fatoorey'. This reminds me of an hindi movie dialogue * I dnt remember the film* "if TO is to, DO is do and why is GO not ..."
To talk of Slip of tongues made by us, there are quite a few real life experiences.
My favourite ones are:
One of our Professor was explaining a topic in Behavioral Dynamics. He was explaining a human following the 'i scratch your back and you scratch mine' part. When asked by a GIRL student to give an example of the same, our dear prof. ends up saying "I will remove your pants and you will remove mine" *yes, he said dat to a girl in front of whole class*
Another incident that comes to my mind is with another prof. explaining cultures of different countries. Of all the places in the world he selects Chile and Peru. Being a South Indian, he pronounced Chile as 'Chilly' and Peru as the fruit "Peru- Guava". I *half asleep* confidently gave an example of Mango!!!!!! My prof got really angry with this and took my case asking whether i think that he is making a fruit salad.
South Indian Accent reminds me of my Science Teacher who would pronounce 'Z' as 'eezat' and 'M' 'N' in a similar fashion. I once wrote 'Volume' as 'Ohlium' when she was dictating notes.
I, being a pakka Bhartiya and a woman, have a habit of clarifying everything in detail. So when i placed an order at our Jai Sandwich wala i went on something like "Ek SMALL cheese grilled snadwich, Chhota Haan" *yes i wanted everything explained crystal clear*
Will end this blog with an sms sent by South Indian friend, emphasizing on the South Indian art of using words in their own way:
A Mallu aunty went for an interview, the interviewer asked her to use words Black, Green, Pink, Blue, and Purple in a sentence. Our lady from the land of Rajnikant's Karmbhoomi says:
*try reading this in Mallu accent*
"The phone went GREEN GREEN, i PINKED it up and said BLUE speaking? Simply PURPELLY giving BLACK call and i kept the receiver" The interviewer faints.
So keep the tradition of:
“Bretis destraoed avar kantry far 150 ears, late us destraoe theare language farever. Pleej farvard dhese messaaje tu aal Indians. Eye lav mayi kantry”.
