My letter to Sidin Vadukut
My letter to Sidin Vadukut The world famous Author of Dork Trilogy
Note: No Malayalis were hurt (physically) in the making of this letter.
Dear Sir,
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for
your Dork trilogy. Thanks to your books I have started picking up the basics of
Malayalam (Mostly abuses).
The process of learning has been extremely progressive and
downright ingenious.
Basically I go and speak some random Malayalam (notice I can
distinguish between Malayalam and Malayali unlike some of my other uncultured
Northie brethren) word to an innocent Malayali passerby and get shouted at in
Malayalam (ex: Someone’s grand father died; Me screaming Adipoli followed by a
tight bear hug by me followed by gun shots and abuses by someone else)
I keep a small notebook for such occasion diligently noting
down all the words this person is shouting, again mostly abuses. I repeat the
process every day and though this has resulted in banishment from 3 or 4
functions, 5 or 6 death threats and a marriage proposal from a 60 year old
female the result has been most satisfying. I can now fluently order Filter
Coffee in small restaurants in Kerala and negotiate the price of Falafals in
Abu Dhabi besides throwing an occasional 'Nayyinte Mone' to a difficult nephew
or niece.
Pandaram Adangan
Dev Adiploi
My friend tried teaching me Hindi for 3 months. He now speaks fluent Malayalam. I still suck at Hindi. You are welcome to try out.
ReplyDeleteYour classes start from tomorrow..:D
Deletethat was a good start..trust me i wasnt offended in any way ;)
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