So we have all heard the acronym ROTFALMAO which expands to - Roll on the floor and laugh my ass off. I get pissed when Mallus who are already poor in English resort to such writing. How we Mallus think its all 'kewl' (not even spelt cool) to stay in the game by occasionally remarking to someone's comment with "Whadda F***?" or "Whadda hell?"
Question is 'Who is kidding who?' Its like taking candy after making sure your teeth have already become rotten with all the soda pop that you gulp down.
With Manglish being spoken by a third of India's population, how I fear that it will make its appearance on a global platform. 'Lolakutty' made a lot of Manglish usages popular, thanks to (was it Asianet? or Surya?) it has been aired to and accepted by many more Mallus.
Anyways, the point I was coming to was that it would nice of us Mallus to maintain some form of purity in the language, even if we were to spell it out in English.
For example, if mallus wanted to exclaim that a column or post was really funny...why not use KAVC - 'Kamizhnu Adichu Veenu Chirikkuka? Sounds novel, doesn't it?
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Happy Birthday Annie kutti!!!!! btw, lola kutti wasnt on asianet....sony or star plus or smthng like tht.....keep writing...i am enjoying this....maybe i will be inspired to revive my long dormant blog
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ReplyDeleteIf I say that, u may think I have a gender problem coz of "Molleee". If you don't think so, prod on. Long live Mallus.
Good read Annie
-Swindle@MumboJumbo
nice one sajish !
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