Posted by: Lakhee November 8, 2006
Things I hate about us Nepali
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Thank you all for you nice and not so nice comments. Every one has the right to say what they think and how they feel, and this is what I have done. The matter of the word “AMA” against “Mummy”, Let me make one thing clear to you all, that mummy is ‘NOT’ a Nepali word; it is migrated from the west, even though you addressed your mother “Mummy” as far as you can remember. Different parts of the country with different background and cultures have their own way of addressing their mother ie. “AMA”, “Mua”, “Mamu”, “Mai” and so on, but these words are from inside our own borders and are suited to our own cultures. I was born up in the hills and I always address my mother “AMA”, and to be honest I feel very proud and different kind of joy to shout “AMA” among those people who are shouting “Mummy”. And I will teach my kids to address their mother “AMA” no mater where I am. City people migrated the word “Mummy”, to bring their so called class status high. They think that calling “AMA” is very backwards, Pahaade, uneducated Gaule pakhe and low class thing, Not realizing that they actually are neglecting our own culture and decreasing their way of thinking to so low life parasite and sitting high and sucking the blood of those Uneducated Gaule Pakes. This is what is wrong with our society and our country. But let me just stop here in the topic of class, I was talking about Mother, no need to drag her into this, and remember people it is “Nepal AMA”, not “Nepal Mummy”. The matter of language. Yes language develops by time and generation, but how about developing our own language with our own words, instead of migrating English words in Nepali language, this isn’t called development, if you say that it is then, something is wrong with you. Yes Snoop dogg and afro Americans speaks slang, but they use English slang. I am not saying that we should stop speaking English just because we have an accent; the whole world speaks English with an accent. English is the mother tongue of England, USA was invaded by Europeans from countries, and the common language became English and there came an American accent, so accent is not a problem. Using English words in between Nepali language does not prove you are well educated, that just proves that you are and idiot who can’t even speak your own language properly, and doesn’t even know what it is called in your own language. So just using English words in between does not make you educated and higher class. I respect that person who speaks Nepali without any English word in between, and that person inspires me a lot. If you can’t speak English properly or have an accent so what, We are Nepali and we have our own Mother tongue. (Not Mummy tongue). I also hate those politicians who doesn’t know how to speak English and try to speak English, even I as a Nepali sometime have difficulty understanding their English, and feel shame that such an idiot is representing US to the world. Why the hell don’t they just speak Nepali instead and hire an interpreter, at least one unemployed Nepali will get a job. Beside there are lot of other countries leaders who speak their own language and they have interpreter to translate to English.
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