Re: a tangent on alu ... etc.
Srinivas Madabhushi (babu@ds5500.cemr.wvu.edu)
Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:06:00 -0400
At 1:36 PM -0500 10/8/97, Ramakrishna Sanka wrote:
>namastE !
>
>One observation made by Sri Hari Krishna, reminded me of something I noticed
>recently (not for the first time though !).
>
>In a film song compilation I borrowed from a friend I heard P Suseela sing
>"malle teega vanTidi maguva ..." and a couple of songs later
> ^^^^^^
>"veeNa lOnaa teege lOnaa ..." . Are they different words ?! (I dont think so).
> ^^^^^
Even in some of Ghantasala songs.. we hear "pha" in "saphalam".. and I hear
most of the people saying Safalam.. though I am not sure which is right..I
just found them to be different..
Srinivas Madabhushi
>I was left wondering if it was due to the poets of the respective songs being
>from different places (I dont know that for a fact).
>( as an aside I was also wondering how much control a film song writer has
>over
>the way his/her song is sung by the singer? )
>
>On another occasion I heard one of my friends, whose "native place" is
>some place
>in the Godavari districts, use the pronunciation "nooni" for oil (I am
>used to
>it being pronounced as "noone")! Is it really a maanDalikam issue or is it
>just
>the idiosyncracies of some people ?!
>
>Another such feature of telugu words is the use of 'l' and 'n' interchangeably
>in words such as munaga ceTTu etc.. This is considered by some as the
>reason we
>have the words telugu and tenugu!
>
>wondering at the wonder of words,
>
>Sankaram
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