confusions of a wandering mind - III

superlatively speaking..... in this era of quantum computing.....

what could "extra virgin " possibly mean...?

speeking of inglish...

technical english... three long long semesters of it in undergrad...the whole purpose of doing it yet to dawn on me three years later... 

learning phonetics... sheer misery.....learning phonetic symbols... sheer sheer misery....write down words the way they are pronounced .. not in english... no... but using symbols specially made for that purpose alone...it is apparently not enough that after 22 years which also had  some time in  convent schools  thrown in ,I am able to write english words gramatically correct and pronounce them phonetically correct 95 % of the times... no... for the sake of survival and deciphering the dictionary ..I should be able to write the words down so that they sound right when seen...

what s easier....??

this....?

PURE.....pjںә Britainic-ally speaking...pjںәr  American-ally speaking....bringing tears of joy to  Miss D'Souza 's eyes( anglo indian english teacher/prof. )

or this....?

PURE...pee-or -(face the consequences)..general public-ally phonetic symbolically challenged (retarded is not a kind word) speaking....

better still... for people with a vivid sense of imagination ...conjure up a scene with one person telling another "piyo yaar...." in FF mode....so everytime one is forming sentences ,there is a frame sequence running in the head...neat aahn?.....bringing tears ..of frustration this time.. to Miss D'Souza 's eyes...

the latter two obviously ..no..??

pjںә  looks like/sounds like  and will continue to look like/sound like pee jay mho eh ...

can't associate color with numbers ..wish i could but am unable to...

tend to give a human like quality to letters of tha alphabet sometimes...in all probability this stemmed from being on the listener's side of long conversations almost always.....

an illustration

                  "n" man "ñ" man

                               

the ones in the head seem more human like... mexican almost...definitely..

think it's this association with letters.. an attachment to the characters associated with them.. that makes me wonder how people can switch accents so easily.. setting foot on american soil kills the "rr's" apparently....the blink and u miss transition so absurd that its almost fascinating....

people change.... fast...so fake that they sound real accents adopted...faster...whatever becomes whad-ev-aah ,Buddah becomes Boodaah and wauhter (fonetically righting.. ) becomes waughdah  in no time..

its still Indianised Queen's english for me... not that I didn't try... I did... made an honest effort.... just that each try created an image of "rr" man being smothered in a cheeseburger/drowning in chocolate malt....

too much of an emotional burden to carry around ..

and so I wait...

all for letter love....

vaazhkai.....