They say 'thoughts become words and words turn into action', but here my actions of late have stirred up some thoughts about words.. Action here I refer to the billable time (My company charges a hefty amount to the client for the time I spend here in office!!) I have used up thinking about the productive work that could have been done and doing perhaps all sorts of nothing.. Action where i spend that same time conversing with friends and strangers-to-be friends through a chat window in a way that seems like I have not seen or heard about them for decades, and also try to extend those conversations in every way possible. Like the BoF (I will soon get into this!!) thing goes, seldom I get a like idle minded person to converse with on the other side of the chat window.. This diurnal sort of activity has evoked a random thought process in my numb mind, a thought about words.. words as they were and as they are and the English language in general...
English a dominant international language, is the official language throughout the world spoken by over a billion people. A language with one of the richest set of vocabulary among the languages borrowing words from several languages like the erstwhile British empire borrowing and many times looting( this word is borrowed from India.. Coincidence or Comeuppance??) several countries in the name of civilization and colonization. A language which has words like 'Floccinaucinihilipilification' just to describe something as worthless. The 21st century though has something else in store for the english language. The age of Nanos (Micros and Minis are done away with) where everything is getting narrowed(nanoed!!) like the Nano technology, Nano accessories - iPod nano, Nano skirts (Oh my Oh my!! wish we had those too!!), the words are also getting nanoed up!! Few words and sentences which have evolved(devolved??) to the nano age....
whats up >> wassup >> ssup>> zup ...........
anyway >> anyways (the s effect) >> neyways >> neways.....
cool >> kewl (???)
about >> abt.. you >> u.. we >> v.. the >> da
some sentences..
lol - laugh out loud
rotfl - roll on the floor and laugh (heights of communicating emotions!!)
brb - be right back
bfn - bye for now (may be replaced with boy friend for now!!)
BoF - Birds of the same Feather flock together!!
Then there was a menon from palghat who was complaining 'whots wid you misserable peeble comblaining about my zimble english??' This malayalish form of beautification of the language has taken south india by storm. Menon's english might be a source of parody to others but its valid to him just as its American or Strine variants are to their speakers.. Atleast its far better than the cacophonous sounds made by the Americans and the Australians.. Of course there is the Hyderabadi Hindi and Hinglish spreading across India.
Speaking about hyderabad, the bomb blast in the old city shocked the very foundation of this peaceful city. Hyderabad was always confined to the reactionary end of Newton's Third Law reacting to violent disturbances in other regions in the form of petty brawls and occasional stone pelting. But extreme emotions are shared only with the close ones, hence the altercations and hurling stones(??) are as much part as the affection among the hindu-muslim fraternity.. The bomb blast an action on its own was a tragic attempt to disrupt that fraternity. Like Mahatma Gandhi said 'Hindu Musalmaan Bhai Bhai' (bye-bye; by-by was always I thought it to be, making my own interpretations.. Bhai-bye, by-Bhai, where the Bhai would be the mumbai waala Bhai and the other one bid a good bye or gone by!!). Hyderabad always stood to follow that saying in its true form.. An intimacy that is often shown in the Indian patriotic movies with a muslim in a green dress, hindu a saffron one and others or sometimes mother india in a white attire clubbed together to somehow form the Indian flag and if divided, the green would turn greener with envy, saffron turns red with rage and white stained yellow.. The green, red, yellow combination of eh.. em.. oh yeahh.. you guessed it right, traffic signals(!!) depicting chaos and disorder (this reminds me of Indica, Indicabs which are ruling the roads these days.. They can cut you from anywhere scaring the living lights out of you and then flashing a sarcastic note on its back.. 'How am I Driving???' I missed being sandwiched between two Indicabs by a whisker today!!) Getting back, ultimately we are all Indians with our own flaws and foibles, vanities and inanities, nano cultures and zimple english, hinglish, we argue we fight with our neighbours and friends but we shouldnt allow the extra terrestrial and anti social elements to upset the unity that we share.
Jai Hind..!!
English a dominant international language, is the official language throughout the world spoken by over a billion people. A language with one of the richest set of vocabulary among the languages borrowing words from several languages like the erstwhile British empire borrowing and many times looting( this word is borrowed from India.. Coincidence or Comeuppance??) several countries in the name of civilization and colonization. A language which has words like 'Floccinaucinihilipilification' just to describe something as worthless. The 21st century though has something else in store for the english language. The age of Nanos (Micros and Minis are done away with) where everything is getting narrowed(nanoed!!) like the Nano technology, Nano accessories - iPod nano, Nano skirts (Oh my Oh my!! wish we had those too!!), the words are also getting nanoed up!! Few words and sentences which have evolved(devolved??) to the nano age....
whats up >> wassup >> ssup>> zup ...........
anyway >> anyways (the s effect) >> neyways >> neways.....
cool >> kewl (???)
about >> abt.. you >> u.. we >> v.. the >> da
some sentences..
lol - laugh out loud
rotfl - roll on the floor and laugh (heights of communicating emotions!!)
brb - be right back
bfn - bye for now (may be replaced with boy friend for now!!)
BoF - Birds of the same Feather flock together!!
Then there was a menon from palghat who was complaining 'whots wid you misserable peeble comblaining about my zimble english??' This malayalish form of beautification of the language has taken south india by storm. Menon's english might be a source of parody to others but its valid to him just as its American or Strine variants are to their speakers.. Atleast its far better than the cacophonous sounds made by the Americans and the Australians.. Of course there is the Hyderabadi Hindi and Hinglish spreading across India.
Speaking about hyderabad, the bomb blast in the old city shocked the very foundation of this peaceful city. Hyderabad was always confined to the reactionary end of Newton's Third Law reacting to violent disturbances in other regions in the form of petty brawls and occasional stone pelting. But extreme emotions are shared only with the close ones, hence the altercations and hurling stones(??) are as much part as the affection among the hindu-muslim fraternity.. The bomb blast an action on its own was a tragic attempt to disrupt that fraternity. Like Mahatma Gandhi said 'Hindu Musalmaan Bhai Bhai' (bye-bye; by-by was always I thought it to be, making my own interpretations.. Bhai-bye, by-Bhai, where the Bhai would be the mumbai waala Bhai and the other one bid a good bye or gone by!!). Hyderabad always stood to follow that saying in its true form.. An intimacy that is often shown in the Indian patriotic movies with a muslim in a green dress, hindu a saffron one and others or sometimes mother india in a white attire clubbed together to somehow form the Indian flag and if divided, the green would turn greener with envy, saffron turns red with rage and white stained yellow.. The green, red, yellow combination of eh.. em.. oh yeahh.. you guessed it right, traffic signals(!!) depicting chaos and disorder (this reminds me of Indica, Indicabs which are ruling the roads these days.. They can cut you from anywhere scaring the living lights out of you and then flashing a sarcastic note on its back.. 'How am I Driving???' I missed being sandwiched between two Indicabs by a whisker today!!) Getting back, ultimately we are all Indians with our own flaws and foibles, vanities and inanities, nano cultures and zimple english, hinglish, we argue we fight with our neighbours and friends but we shouldnt allow the extra terrestrial and anti social elements to upset the unity that we share.
Jai Hind..!!
