Re: [jayaprabha marOsAri]
Jagdish Bisa (jbisa@bbnplanet.com)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 11:51:46 -0400
Hari K Tadepalli, quoting jayaprabha, said:
> > "alamElu manga adbhuta soundaryaanni padaMlO chindElaa
> chEyagaligina
> > annamayya anTE entO ishTaMtO paaTu naaku kinchit ukrOshamoo,
> asooyaa
> > kooDaa lEkapOlEdu.
> > ........
> > ........
> > ayyaa! annamayya!! neeku tappa E kavayitrikee bhaashalO ee veelu
>
> > lEnE lEdaa? nee naaTikee - naanaaTikee!!"
>
> Absolutely not ! So long as one has something to say, one will find
> a way to say it !
You're correct, from a communicator's or poet's perspective. It's seems
to me that jayaprabha's above quote reflect's a linguist's perspective.
Language sets the ground rules for what people see, understand and talk
about. A histogram of words in terms of usage in literature tells us a
lot about the culture that language represents.
Poetry, as you said, is certainly capable of conveying things for which
there's no word defined directly in that language. But that's not the
point in jayaprabha's quote.
-Jagdish ( A feminist is a feminist, sleeping or not! ) Bisa