Monday, December 29, 2008

My vocabulary

Its bad that we used "malayalam" as the official language in my earlier companies :( My english is the worst!

And now in bengaluru i am forced to speak "saippu's language. And my mallu accent brings laughter to many of friends here. They force me to tell - "coke" and "cock"; "pink" and "ping"; and "lorry" and "uncle" and all.... But still i have not improved.

But still i could go on talking on technical subjects with my mallu accent without any difficulty. So i was able to handle the official discussions properly. Till last-last week I didnt realize that my vocabulary is too bad...

Going to BTM layout from my office, my car was stuck in silk board junction for more than 45 minutes... And my collegues/friends who were in the car were frustrated that my car doesnt hav good audio system also. Finally they forced me to say the story of "maharathi" film which i recently saw.

I found out why "story telling" is the way english is taught in good kinder garden schools.. It is the way you learn the language. And for me - the only words i know are: "for", "while" , "is", "and", "or" etc etc... I was suffocating telling the story. No right words were coming to mind.

I dont want to attempt to tell the story here again. But finally when i was about to tell the climax my friends asked me - "Where are those kidnappers? ; What happened to Nasarudheen shah ? " Those who saw "maharathi" film will understand how well i told the story.

And now this has become a long post. So i bet, you have not understood anything from it.

God save my vocabulary!!!!

1 comment:

Santhosh Balasubramanian said...

That's ok AnoopG. Even I had same issues years back but eventually got over it.Btw, it is kindergarten and not kinder garden.