In A Lighter Mood

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Putin" is pronounced "put in" in Africa and pronounced "purin" in Europe and America.

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-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet, IIM Professional Fellow, MIT Chief Data Officer Ambassador and Founder/Publisher of, www.publicinformationprojects.org)

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

I wonder how the Arabs pronounce the name since they don’t have the P (plosive) sound – as the professor of correct pronunciation should be the first to inform us.

So Brer Gaddafi was always going on with his usual babble about “da bebble” ( people) and without the p ( a very aggressive sound indeed) in the general babble about Putin, I suppose that dear Putin would always come out as “Butt-in” - exactly what he’s doing now, butting in, in Ukraine. His military in-put. My good friend on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean uses the B-word, says that “Purtin” is the son of a bee, you choose, but I suppose that just B is for Biden, B is also for Bitch, whereas P is for pitch, D is for Dick and dictionary. P is also for prick – a special word in colloquial turn of the word when for example ( a good example) someone says, he’s a prick – different from brick...as in my favourite English op album of 1977: Thick as a Brick - wherein he complains “Your wise men don't know how it feels, to be thick as a brick.”

I wrote this to you ( Chidi), last night:

Take it or leave it:

A short view, or a rather dim view:

Playing on Hindi-influenced English pronunciation

in North of South VS’s brother Shiva Naipaul

jokes about “shorti stories”

This keen ear for the local, colloquial accents and the ability to capture and reproduce them on the printed page, is a quality that is so admirable (fleetingly) in Patrick White...

Take the opening conversation in The Solid Mandala

Something of a trademark in e.g. Sam Selvon’s Moses Ascending - the Caribbean lilt, the spoken word on paper, the language of the theatre, could even be the language of the novel of ideas...

I’m looking for some of that in what I’m reading right now, Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Woman

Dear Somebody,

Try this for poetry:

Let us concede now, you and I

When the evening is spread out against the sky

That “a short in the dark”  or "a shorti " in the dark could be the equivalent of what the deep English refer to as  "a dip"

“a quickie” 

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

"my favourite English op album of 1977"?  I meant pop album. It's dangerous when the first letter is missing and filling in the blank could be, bop, cop, fop etc...Also incomplete when the last letter is missing; in a lighter mood (like a short in the dark in the light of the continually shifting political variables) it could be worse than a Sardar joke 

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