Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Ooh..awwww..ouch

Suddenly we have all become very Englees, French, Italian in our speeches. Junta used to talk about filling 'gas' in one number TVS 50. My first reaction - "Gas in TVS 50 na they fill petrol in Cylinder-a? Technology has imbroved so much eh?" Honestly, I thought 'gas' meant some pudu, special petrol exclusively for two wheelers in Madras. Wonly after sometime (months,days...hehe) I realized the Englipeesness of peoples.

Oflate, I seem to be hearing and reading a lot of 'awwwwwwwwws'. I don't know if its the 'aw' or the 'w's in the entire expression that bugs me. 'awww' is the annoying akka of 'cho chweet'.

Another most annoying expression / word is 'mwah'. "Thxs 4 rding ma blog.. c u ltr... mwah", read officially unofficial blog posts (I don't want to elaborate on this - velai mael aasai). Do you literally go around kissing everyone and anyone when you meet them? "Ma blog?" - I thought it was your blog and not your amma's.

And what's this 'moi' business? Official mails read "This has been adapted by moi" . Initially I thought it had something to do with 'Moi-ppanam'. May be the mail recipient owed some Moi-ppanam to the sender and using a 'moi' was a reminder for the pending amount.

I must've been snoring asusual when this great evolution of the language happened? Can you please to be telling me when and how the Great englipisification, French and Italification happened in our lives? Thanking you.

Updated - 21st May

"Sorry babes!", "Hi Babes!" is something I get to hear atleast a million times. Arrrrrrgh! Babes probably makes girls look / sound hip. Babe to me is a 'BABE'... The Ollipicchan models with LIC building heels, the Malaika Arora types with skirts shorter than jettis are BABES! Enna paatha Babe madiri teriyidha... I refuse to be associated with kutta skirt ollipicchans... Sorry babe!

22 Responses:

Jayaprakash Sampath said...

avvvvvvvvvv.... ( in vadivelu ishtlye)

WA said...

:) If only I still blogged I would have said, Thxs 4 rding ma blog.. c u ltr... mwah

Sugar and Spice said...

Hi.. Just happened to browse through your blog. Makes really good reading!

And BTW, what about the WASSUP(S) {sometimes it is only SUP!!} and the NOPE(S) used often?? Do we call it Great englipisification?

RAJI MUTHUKRISHNAN said...

Adi en chellamey!

Harini said...

:D ROTFL (this is also englisification) reading this post...
People in my office turned and gave weird looks...
don't forget the yup, nope, oh jeez, holy christ (irrespective of their faith), holy cow etc etc...
u jus attained them peaks of posts wit dis blg girl

artnavy said...

jeeee- moi wld have to agree!!

YUVA said...

sema kalay.

DC said...

agree 100%. this moi, awww and 'ma blg' kind of talk is plain irritating!

Maddy said...

hahhaha! sonnathellaam unmai thaan....Paarthu...chinna pasanga pullainga yaaravathu paartha/ketta...ungalai....Palangaalam ( Ancient) nnu solla poraanga

busyblogger said...

Nice post.i read your blog regularly.I like the sarcasm and pun in the posts. i am with u in the engleepeesu...i hate the "ma this" " ma that" peoples as well.another is the dude factor.wassup dude...drives me nuts

Lavanya said...

sariya soneenga! Inda "mwah" kuda poruthukalam aana inda "ma blog, ma pic" solravangala manikkave mudiyaadhu! Orkut is full of these biladyfellows! pakathu veetu sankar kiterndhu vadaga vaangina pulsar-um burma bazaar-la 70 ruba beram pesi 30 rubakku vaangina cooling glass-a potundu caption ezhudharanga "lookin cool on ma bike" nnu.

Aala vechchu adikanum!

Bhel Puri & Seekh Kabab said...

Came here via Chutney's tweet. Rather than Englipication, I would call it Ameripication, courtesy "Friends." Also, rapification, as in "yo" (which I am guilty of)

When you can't beat them, join them, I always say. Ta-Ta

Julius Dhandapwni said...

Same blood.

For 5 years i thought mwuah muah was the Dr. Evil laugh!

:(

Great post!
:)

Karthick Krishna said...

good nakkals.. i use to kalachify all these peters usually. Almost all the blogs i visit wher in englipees, nice to see something similar in the blogulagam. ... the last paragraph update was great.. :)

Karthick Krishna said...

sorry, chinna mistake...
//"nice to see something similar in the blogulagam".//
i meant, similar to my thinking...

Manchus said...

Super post po. Now that is Englipich. Super is totally a Tam adopted English word to be pronounced in Rajanikant style.

maxdavinci said...

ROFL....

late coming but latest coming is I..

also people be the use the ciao very the much. Some peepuls calling it chau due to pronunciation!

That is the truth said...

I was just thinking of ciao as maxdavinci, and the liberal use of dude in a conversation :D

Anjana R said...

lol. very nicely put. awwwing is the new way for losers to appear cool it seems :D

Karthik Sriram said...

Awwwww.

Moi comment on ya blog. Puleez visit ma blog.

:P

Anonymous said...

You have a good blog :-) Makes a very interesting read! I will definitely be back :-) Kutta skirt ollipichaans :-P Please do visit my blog if you have the time :-)

Mumbai Diva said...

also 'anyways'. hahaha. but am guilty too!!!