Bud, bud, bud
By well-wisher
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Today I had a conversation with some of the locals.
"Bud, bud, bud" , they said, "Thats how you talk. Thats how paki's talk".
I tried to interest them in the Nobel Prize winning poems of Rabindranath Tagore, Indias National Poet.
"Oh bud, bud, bud", they said.
I informed them that Sanskrit, the classical language of hindus, is the ancestor of all European languages.
"Thats why they call them indo-european languages", I said.
"Bud, bud, bud", they replied.
I explained to them that actually, India has 22 official spoken languages; that in the standard hindi alphabet there are 11 vowels and 35 consonants.
"Bud, bud, bud. Oh bud, bud, bud", they said.
"The greeks had a similar idea", I said, "They thought that the languages of all non-greeks sounded like Bar...bar...bar and so called them Barbaros which is the root of the English word Barbarian".
"Bud, bud, bud", they repeated with vicious smiles and looks of arousal in their eyes.
I have to conclude that communication with the locals is going to be quite difficult.
They speak the same language as me but they understand so little.
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Reads like a prose poem.
Reads like a prose poem.
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The repetition of those words
The repetition of those words (which I'd never heard before) make this work. Prose or poetry, it has a very big impact
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