Telugu best spoken....??
Shyam Prasad Talluri
I mean from Rajahmundry and kakinada.
I would like to see what others have got to say...
Shyam Talluri
" Gala gala pravahinche Godavari....."
Chandra Reddy
|> IMHO the purest form of Telugu comes from East Godavari district.
How do you define "pure form of Telugu"?
Once that is decided, may be comparisons can begin.
|> I mean from Rajahmundry and kakinada.
|> I would like to see what others have got to say...
|> Shyam Talluri
|> " Gala gala pravahinche Godavari....."
In my opinion, a language X is what is spoken or written by people
who claim to use the language X for communication. Therefore, Telugu
language is the union of all the dialects(*) spoken by Telugu people.
If one uses this definition, one can't claim a language of a
particular region to be 'pure' (whatever that means).
If by 'pure' you mean 'standard', one may define 'Standard Telugu' to be
the one that is generally used in widely circulated newspapers
(eenaaDu etc.), and other popular magazines, etc. Using this definition, may
be Krishna district can have a claim to be speaking 'Standard Telugu'.
Hope that was somewhat coherent... (Can't do better -- I'm in a hurry!)
What do you say, folks?
cheers, chandra.
Ps: No, I do not belong to Krishna district.:-)
kumar vadaparty
> In article <1utr5n$2...@aurora.engr.LaTech.edu>, s...@engr.LaTech.edu (Shyam Prasad Talluri) writes:
> |> IMHO the purest form of Telugu comes from East Godavari district.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> How do you define "pure form of Telugu"?
>Using this definition, may
> be Krishna district can have a claim to be speaking 'Standard Telugu'.
>
Purest telugu comes from *my* district. Then, from *my* caste in that
district. Further, from *my* subcast; further, from people of *my*
last name. Finally, from *my* grandmother/granduncle/etc.
Get a life! Perhaps smell Coffee.
Gurajada and Gidugu have given their lives to fight this notion of
"purest" of a language. Then, here comes an "objective" evaluation of
the purest form of Telugu. When they history repeats, they were not
kidding, I guess.
Kumar Vadaparty
--
PVR Narasimha Rao
In article <1utr5n$2...@aurora.engr.LaTech.edu>, s...@engr.LaTech.edu (Shyam Prasad Talluri) writes:
:) IMHO the purest form of Telugu comes from East Godavari district.
:) I mean from Rajahmundry and kakinada.
:)
:) I would like to see what others have got to say...
OK, let me put it this way: The purest form of East Godavari Telugu is
spoken in East Godavari, the purest form of Krishna Telugu is spoken in
Krishna, the purest form of Waranagal Telugu is spoken in Warangal, the
purest form of Nellore Telugu is spoken in Nellore, the purest form of
Madaras Telugu is spoken in Madras and so on. :) :) :)
SPT, now you must _really_ be happy that FFT doesn't read scit! I can
imagine the junkie's followup [if he was reading scit]! :)
PVR
"Scotty, your Telugu is not pure. padi gunjeel tiy."
KANDALA SRINIVAS
>
>
>Purest telugu comes from *my* district. Then, from *my* caste in that
>district. Further, from *my* subcast; further, from people of *my*
>last name. Finally, from *my* grandmother/granduncle/etc.
>
i used to my grand parents house in mudunurupad ( tadepalligudem taluq,
w.godavari dist), some of my relatives (actually i think 2 or 3), used to
point out that i don't speak telugu properly (well, saying my accent is
different is one thing -- lived in hyderabad for most of life, so naturally
should have picked up the local accent). but not speaking properly? i always
used to wonder :-)
> Get a life! Perhaps smell Coffee.
thanks.. but it is time to go to bed :-)
>
>Gurajada and Gidugu have given their lives to fight this notion of
>"purest" of a language. Then, here comes an "objective" evaluation of
>the purest form of Telugu. When they history repeats, they were not
>kidding, I guess.
>
nope. it will happen even after hundred years. i always quote to my friends,
"humans will never learn from history and are condemned to make the same
mistake again and again" :-)
>Kumar Vadaparty
>--
srini
ps: no. i don't hold anything against others. some of my best friends are from
coastal andhra.
--
Blue Jays: 1993 World Champions
MALLIDI SATYANARAY
this type of discussion used to come now and then when I was in
A.P. Residential School, Tadikonda. There used to be students from
all the seven coastal districts. Everybody used to argue that their
Telugu was the best. Guys from Krishna, and Guntur districts used to
say that since thier form is heard in the movies (well, cine field
had always been dominated by writers/actors/producers etc. from this
area). I used to say that since the first literary peace came from
Rajhamahendravaram, the best form was from the Godavari area.
I used to cite names of poets from this area.
Eventually, I never cared for this type of arguements.
First written Telugu was found in the Anantapuram (if I am not
mistaken) area. So shall we say, Rayalaseema Telugu is the pure form?
Obviosly, areas close to a different linguistic region have the effects
of the other language well pronounced. Telugu from SriKakulam/Vizag
is greately influenced by the Oria (the style is very noticeable).
Same can be said of the Telugu in the Chittor disticts, or in
Telngana ( a good number of Urdu/Hindi words)
If we see Telugu words (accha Tenugu) a lot of them look very similar
to a distorted form of Tamil words. And, of course, until the
British came, Sanskrit enjoyed a better status than Telugu. A lot
of Sanskrit words became part of Telugu to a degree of indistinguisha-
bility over several centuries. Today, of course, same thing is happening
with Telugu, with the exception of Sanskrit giving way to English.
The notion of pure form of Telugu is not very practicable I guess.
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