Chennai slang Tamil and Nannan
Yesterday there was a program in Jaya TV showing Vivek speaking conversing with Abdul Hameed in Chennai slang.
It was just hilarious with Abdul Hameed speaking in pure Tamil and Vivek trying to teach words like ‘Naina’, ‘Eppadi Kire’, ‘Nashtha’, ‘Loves’, ‘Manja’ etc.
Just a few days back Nannan on Makkal TV was critizing people who had English ‘moham’.
But he was not informed . He said people for the sakeof fashion pronounce What’s ur name instead of ‘What is your name’, Bir-day instead of Birthday. Just like different Tamil dialects of Madurai, Nellai and Kovai English also has variety of dialects. English has over a 100 dialects spread across England and is the most mis-spect and pronounced language.
So Nannan instead of promoting Tamil was abusing people and English1
Compare this to a show on Jaya TV teaching English. I am in hurry is to be said as “I’m in-a-hury.” That is English.
Tamil can protect itself thanks to Tamils spread outside Tamilnadu and not Nannan who is fond of criticizing people and English language. The Nannan in DD many years ago was positive
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RANGARAJAN A L said,
June 23, 2008 @ 8:20 am
Ambimama
The same Nannan in yesterday’s programme on Makkal TV ( 22.06.08) said those withh ‘mummy’ ‘daddy’ culture in Tamilnadu should be burnt alive or shot. I was shocked at the audacity of aman who thinks that he can do goog by advocating violence.Is ther any wasy of legal action possible against these kinds of persons? Could he have uttered such things when he was on Doordarshan in the olden days?
RANGARAJAN A L said,
June 23, 2008 @ 8:20 am
Ambimama
The same Nannan in yesterday’s programme on Makkal TV ( 22.06.08) said those with ‘mummy’ ‘daddy’ culture in Tamilnadu should be burnt alive or shot. I was shocked at the audacity of aman who thinks that he can do goog by advocating violence.Is ther any wasy of legal action possible against these kinds of persons? Could he have uttered such things when he was on Doordarshan in the olden days?
KR Rathna Rajah said,
November 14, 2008 @ 10:18 am
Nannan is the best person and trademark of Tamil language. What he commented need not be taken literally.
veeeel said,
April 14, 2009 @ 9:31 am
hey ppl….you should be ashame of condemning
Prof.Nannan. he has all the right to say whatever he said.tamil is our mother tongue…..don’t let it down…why in hell for youmust uphold english. it is just another language. nothing comes near tamil.
Vijayan said,
August 24, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
both (Ambimama & rangarajan) as the names suggests have their grouse else where. with Mr.Ma.Nannan it has manifested due to the Aryan vs Dravidian and this is just a pretext to vent their frustration. the above rant as well as the comment (by rangarajan) has failed to observe what is truly being conveyed when Mr.Ma.Nannan opines is primarily on diction/syntax and has more to do with etymology than anything else. this site reeks of prejudice!!!