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| Lekhiika |
Posted
on 31-Oct-03 10:26 AM
Remember that famous dialouge from an Amitabh movie? "I can waak englis i can taak englis becaaj englis is a phunnie lyangwej!" Sometimes I do think englis (American) is a phunnie lyanguage especially when it comes to the pronunciation of certain words. Like for example:
Education pronounced as Education: where does the "ju" come from?
Schedule as Skejule
Pizza as Peetza
There are many more which I can't remember. Anyway speaking of words, I've been quite fascinated by how people in different parts of the world use different names for the same thing. Now if I'm confusing you, let me give examples of the US and Great Britain
AMERICAN BRITISH
Flashlight Torchlight
Restroom Loo
Frikkin' Bloody
Santa Claus Christmas Father
If you guys wanna add more to the list, please do so. It'll be informational for all of us.
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| Neural |
Posted
on 31-Oct-03 11:29 AM
>>>>Anyway speaking of words, I've been quite fascinated by how people in different parts of the world use different names for the same thing.
For instance: Water
-Thai ppl pronounce it as : WAAAAAATAAAAL (just like singing a song, they pronounce L for R)
-Japanese will say : Waataru
There was an incident while i's attending Chemistry class during my Ist yr of undergrad. The Chemistry lecturer (south indian) was helping us by his Lecturer notes. Suddenly, i had to halt myself cuz i cud not understand his pronunciation for "Water CIRCULATES..."
He was pronounicing it as "Water KARKULATES..." (it was in Karnataka state, India)
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| rajunpl |
Posted
on 31-Oct-03 01:35 PM
dnfO t s]xL kgL yfxf 5}g . cfkm' t ;f]kmf] g]kfnL k/Lof]
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| ru |
Posted
on 31-Oct-03 01:39 PM
yeh and ordering chinese...as chaini fu; po fri ri; and what not...those guys rock..but on a different note..taking "Test Of Nepali as Native Language" and most of us (at least people like me) would barely make it..Damn.
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| dautari |
Posted
on 31-Oct-03 04:59 PM
Yes, indeed, English is a very phunnie language.
bow is pronounced "bo" as well as "bauw" depending on its meaning. And again there is another word that is pronounced "bauw" - bough.
Now is rough is pronouced "roff" why isn't bough pronounce "boff". Tyo bhanda pani how did "gh" have "f" sound?
similarly, if "to" is pronounced "tu", "do" is pronounced "du" then why isn't "go" pronounced "gu"?
Just a few examples.
One can dig up many more queries like these.
In My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) says "Why can't the English teach their chidren how to speak (English)?"
Let's ask "why can't the English words have uniform pronunciation pattern?"
Is it because English has words borrowed from or derived from too many other languages?
Ashu dai, what is your opinion?
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| funnyface |
Posted
on 01-Nov-03 02:42 AM
it IS a funny language. im having a tough time trying to teach the kids at sunday school that u is also for umbrealla not just unicorn and uniform. and one of all time favourite is _ke noe ledge- knowledge that is. heehee.
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| Soleil |
Posted
on 01-Nov-03 11:06 AM
It's indeed phoney phunny language. There is no egg in the plant, still it is called an eggplant. Similarly, the fly without butter is called a butterlfy. And, more on phonetics, DO is pronounced "doo" where NO is just "noh". Shouldn't it be "noo"? Surprisingly GNU is pronounced "noo". COMB is "kohmb" where TOMB is "toomb"?
Kina yesto antar bhanera sochi topalinda, goray le "aa kaar" "uu kaar" ko gyan rainachha jasto lagyo. :)
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| dautari |
Posted
on 01-Nov-03 02:16 PM
hahaha .. soleil le hasayo
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| Lekhiika |
Posted
on 03-Nov-03 09:24 PM
Another one I just remembered: A symbol for denoting that a sentence is complete
American British
Period. Full Stop.
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| Bilbo Baggins |
Posted
on 03-Nov-03 09:29 PM
I wat to go at two to two too.
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