Tanglish - Edited !?
Added on 27th Oct 2008 - I never thought my rants will offend some one. I knew this one may irritate Tamil people. I am not against Tamil. But there are things that make me wonder why only in Chennai? Why people in Chennai refuse to speak Hindi? Why there is no sign board in Hindi? Leave Hindi aside some times its hard to locate a sign board even in English? Why? A comment from Kamal says he is genius and I am a fool, his blog says that whatever is there on his blog is correct and if you dont agree with him you are wrong. Same here. If you find some thing offending, sorry, but you are wrong. Get a life.
Ch33r5 
When I first read Jayalalitha’s name I was amazed, why there is an extra H in Lalita. Anyway. I used to tell my self and never paid attention.
Now, when I am in Chennai, I hav just stopped asking my self why there is an extra H, in fact I suspect if I am reading a correct name if it doesn’t carry an extra H with T. Oh yes one more thing, here in Chennai, it is pronounced as HETCH not ETCH, like YEMM not EMM, YO not O and so many other words. So here is a list of words and phrases which have made me think, where am I:
- anything that sounds as T contains extra H, for example Amit will become AmitH, Tilak will become THilak, Thyagaraya Nagar, the famous T. Nagar and so on.
- Tandoor is Thandoori or Tantoori
- No problem is nothing problem
- Straight is Stait
- Cotton is Cotone
- Peas are spelled as pies, piece or some times pees, thank God I never found a menu with Pees Pulao
- Hey I even found Fruit Juice is Frut Joos, this was intentional I know.
- You can find many Lite Shops in Chennai selling decorative Lights.
- Added on 27th Oct, Sprouts spelled as “Sprouds“
I agree, we in North have same stuff but man, these guys are giving tough competition to our Punjabi guys where bulb is spelled as “ballab”.
And I didn’t invent the term Tanglish, its on Wiki competing with Hinglish.
Gaad knows who will win.
