Foreign words into Telugu - one humorous episode!
Nagulapalli Srinivas (srinivas@eng.umd.edu)
Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:32:32 -0500 (EST)
Reading the foreign words getting into Telugu, I recall an incident that took
place atleast 5 years ago. I was travelling in a APSRTC bus in Bolarum,
near Secunderabad, when one person who was dressed in khadi white- Gandhian
style, aboarded the bus. Later some one told that he was a "successful LOSER"
in all the Municipal Elections held for the last 2 decades or so!!:-)
Anyway some one asked if he again filed his Nomination for the coming elections.
He said he filed his "naam- nishaan" yesterday,and when someone corrected saying
it is called "Nomination" and not "naam-nishaan", he exhorted vehemently that:
"It is only "naam-nishaan"- you put your naam= (Name) and also "nishaan"(Symbol)
And he theorized that the British had difficulty in pronouncing it as
naam-nishaan and hence it became "Nomination"!!!!:-) I could never forget
his audacity and impudence in deriving etmylogy of words with scholarly
vehemence !!!:-)
With regards
-Srinivas