Posted by: sidster June 20, 2009
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Spreadlove,
Your experience/observation is similar to mine. I noticed the difference between S and SH the hard way. We were at the company meeting and i meant to say " we are just pushing it too hard" but my accent ended up saying " we are pussying it too hard" . Fortunately there was a 19 year old giggling girl in my team who actually pointed out how funny i was when i said pussying in front of higher management. Thats when i was made aware of two different sounds. I was so embarrassed and i decided to pay attention to words.
The other turning event for me with Rashwa and Dirgha was " when i couldnt say my friend's car name properly. He was driving Dodge Intrepid, but everytime i said the damn name i called it Intrapeed, for the love of good i could not tell the difference between Pid and Peed. It took me nearly 3 years in US to finally understand the difference and then the practice began. The difference that could have been understood on the first day in US itself could have been solved given the proper guidence or awareness.
My experience with the indian counter part was, we were speaking about violence in south asian and i decided to use the word Shanti = Peace, but when it came out from my mouth it came out as SAANTI, unfortunately i am still not acustomed to saying the SHs correctly while speaking Nepalese.
Then my Indian Co Workers remark was " kya bihari ki tarah saanti saanti laga rakha hey , saanti nahi Shanti bol" Then he added " it looks like your language is not mature enough and its still a tribal language because our tribal people cant say the words correctly either" another moment for embarassment. My question to myself was, how come we have words for all the sounds that there are almost possible and no one gives a rats ass about saying the words correctly. If indians are enough concerned about speaking their language correctly why werent we? Are we really not matured with language and tribal like my Indian Co Worker pointed out?
As Spreadlove pointed out the other sounding issues i have noticed among ourselves are
Ear/Year ( with E and Ya in Nepali)
Ore/Wore ( with O and Wa in Nepali)
Sid
Your experience/observation is similar to mine. I noticed the difference between S and SH the hard way. We were at the company meeting and i meant to say " we are just pushing it too hard" but my accent ended up saying " we are pussying it too hard" . Fortunately there was a 19 year old giggling girl in my team who actually pointed out how funny i was when i said pussying in front of higher management. Thats when i was made aware of two different sounds. I was so embarrassed and i decided to pay attention to words.
The other turning event for me with Rashwa and Dirgha was " when i couldnt say my friend's car name properly. He was driving Dodge Intrepid, but everytime i said the damn name i called it Intrapeed, for the love of good i could not tell the difference between Pid and Peed. It took me nearly 3 years in US to finally understand the difference and then the practice began. The difference that could have been understood on the first day in US itself could have been solved given the proper guidence or awareness.
My experience with the indian counter part was, we were speaking about violence in south asian and i decided to use the word Shanti = Peace, but when it came out from my mouth it came out as SAANTI, unfortunately i am still not acustomed to saying the SHs correctly while speaking Nepalese.
Then my Indian Co Workers remark was " kya bihari ki tarah saanti saanti laga rakha hey , saanti nahi Shanti bol" Then he added " it looks like your language is not mature enough and its still a tribal language because our tribal people cant say the words correctly either" another moment for embarassment. My question to myself was, how come we have words for all the sounds that there are almost possible and no one gives a rats ass about saying the words correctly. If indians are enough concerned about speaking their language correctly why werent we? Are we really not matured with language and tribal like my Indian Co Worker pointed out?
As Spreadlove pointed out the other sounding issues i have noticed among ourselves are
Ear/Year ( with E and Ya in Nepali)
Ore/Wore ( with O and Wa in Nepali)
Sid
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