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Source:<\/span><\/strong>Island<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The English language has spread world-wide like the pandemic of Covid. In Sri Lanka the English language has become our\u00a0lingua franca.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

We vintage colonials, use English in conversations at home but when my friends cross-swords with me, they use Sinhala occasionally which is more expressive. We Lankan locals have expressive repartees,\u00a0\u201cAdo<\/i>\u201d for look here,\u00a0\u201cBambuwa\u201d<\/i>\u00a0for nonsense,\u00a0<\/i>\u201cyako\u201d<\/i>\u2019 for you devil, and\u00a0\u201ctho\u201d<\/i>, \u201cthopi\u201d\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0\u201cpissa\u201d\u00a0<\/i>for inccorrigibles. And bravo, the Oxford English Dictionary has now included the Sinhala word\u00a0\u2018Aiyo\u2019<\/i>, so why not enrich the English language with these other words also? Though English is often our\u00a0Lingua domestica<\/i>, it continues to plague me. Here\u2019s why.<\/span><\/p>\n

At a recent party, the comper\u00e8 invited \u201cmen and their spouses\u201d for a game. Look, the plural of mouse is not mouses but mice, so why shouldn\u2019t he have asked men and their spice to join? That\u2019s more spicy and s-exciting. Many from Portugal are Portuguese but one chap should be a Portugoose, as with goose and geese, but not so, why? I like being outspoken, but I cannot be inspoken. The pragmatic Americans who invented the atomic bomb also made reparations to the English language. They dispensed with unnecessary prefixes that fix me, but we in school were taught English-English which had these prefixes. I was driving behind a petrol bowser which admitted being \u2018Highly Inflammable\u2019. Being a literal man, taking it as English-English, I lit my pipe but my passenger threw it out of the window. He was an American to whom petrol is flammable, and in America I wouldn\u2019t have lost my pipe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cricket is thoroughly English, but we former British colonials won the Cricket World Cup in the 1990s. We spend five days in the hot sun (when is the sun not hot?) playing it, and when an American wanted to know what this game is all about, he was told by his English friend: \u201cYou see,\u00a0you have two sides, one out in the field and\u00a0<\/b>one in. Each man who\u2019s in the side that\u2019s in, goes out and when he\u2019s out, he comes in, and bats until he\u2019s out. When they are all out, the side that\u2019s been out comes in and the side that\u2019s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When both sides have been in and out, including the not out\u2019s, that\u2019s the end of the game\u201d.\u00a0<\/i>Having won a World Cup in cricket we Lankans are not bowled-out by that explanation but the pragmatic Americans called it a day as they found English cricket is confusing and settled for baseball instead; all\u2019s well as it lasts only a few hours. But we intrepid Lankans still play cricket and not our traditional game of\u00a0gudu<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are other hiccups in the English language; these relate to the prefixes \u2018ex\u2019 and \u2018in\u2019; We have an exhaust but no inhaust. Amogst other former colonials, the Malaysians are reasonable people and so, despite their British colonialism, they have simplified English with\u00a0exhaust<\/i>\u00a0and term it\u00a0egzos;\u00a0<\/i>Ice cream, to them has become simply\u00a0aiskrim.\u00a0<\/i>Other outlandish folk also use English as when a Thai lab-lady told me, on seeing me enjoying music \u201cBuchy, you are so enjoyable\u201d.<\/i>\u00a0I dared not relate that to my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/b>And we simple ex-colonials are sometimes just as blunt; a restaurant in Kandy has the name \u201cEat me<\/i>\u201c, and another advertises its ware as being of \u201cPurity, quality and tasty\u201d.\u00a0<\/i>But when a grocery store in Kandy advertised that it sells \u201cCow Pee<\/i>\u201d my wife asked me whether they also sell \u201cBull shit<\/i>\u201c. There are other quandaries. There are in-things but not out-things. I have met insufferable people but never a sufferable one. We then have in-laws and sometimes they are outlaws.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kids find this in-out matter amusing, with the following story. Two skunks that are known to stink,\u00a0In<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Out<\/i>\u00a0went out for a walk. In got lost but Out located him. When asked how he did it, he replied \u201cIn stinked\u201d; it could also have been because of Out\u2019s instinct. Animals display instinct but seldom outstinct; species sometimes get biologically extinct. The only animal that displays out-stinks are skunks. The remedy for this in-out imbroglio is what we had in junior school,\u00a0Practical English<\/i>, but I think this has now disappeared from school curricula; it should be restored. I\u2019ll stop wearing decrepit clothes and shoes and wear only crepit ones but shops do not sell crepit footwear. I prefer to doctrinate folk to be good, not merely indoctrinate them. So it\u2019s no wonder that some wise guy said that\u00a0the English language takes the cake for blatant inconsistency,\u00a0<\/i>and I\u2019ll vote for him for the Pulitzer Prize for Archaeo-Linguistics. The late Professor S. R. Kottegoda, who was the Founding President of the\u00a0Society for the restoration of the Lost Positives in the English language,\u00a0<\/i>would have been happy to read this, but the old bard at Stratford-upon-Avon might not have been amused.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humour is what keeps me going. As a youth I enjoyed reading Stephen Leacock, James Thurber, Damon Runyon, Bill Bryson, PG Wodehouse, Lord Chesterfield\u2019s Letters to his son, and our own Tarzie Vitachchi of yesteryear, and last Sunday, I read an ad for the fare in a guest house \u201cup-country\u201d (note-we have no down country but only low country). \u201cNewly Tourist Hotel, Working distance from the city, beautiful cold, mist windy, Buffet and Ala Cart<\/i>\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n

However insufferable English-English is, and despite these hiccups in I will not use a sufferable lingo such as Urdu or Esperanto, I\u2019ll continue to hiccup in Singlish, the local dialect of the Queen\u2019s English. However we Lankans are claimed to be high on English literacy scale, and our debt to papa Shakespeare must be acknowledged. And now that our word \u201cAiyo is in the Oxford English Dictionary, I might be permitted to greet the old Bard Bill Shakespeare with another common Sinhala word \u201cAdo\u201d and say to Bill patting him on his back, \u201cAdo Bill, Sinhala is now in the world\u2019s English\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite our massacre of the English language, we owe a huge debt to old Bill Shakespeare the father of the language. He is so great, several compatriots claim him to be of their own kind. Many articles have appeared on him, but I want to know who Shakespeare really was. He is so famous that diverse people claim him as their own. The Sinhalese think he was Shakes Perra of Bambalapitiya, the Burghers think he was Shakes Pereira a Burgher from Kotahena, those of Portuguese origin think he was Shakes Fereira from Lisbon, the Tamils think he was Shekar Periar from Killinochchi, the Muslims swear that he was Sheik Shapir from Kattankudy, The hiccups in our use of English could have originated from the diverse ancestry of the olde Bard. But Ann Hathaway had the last word and hath her way; she knew that he was really an Englshman from Stratford Upon Avon, and she married him as women always have the last word. But dear reader, you can have it\u00a0As you like it,\u00a0<\/i>as Bill himself wrote as the title of as his play.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bill was a great writer and philosopher who wrote\u00a0All the world\u2019s a stage and the men and women merely players.<\/i>\u00a0And as we age we get\u00a0sans eyes, sans ears, sans hair and sans everything<\/i>. So naturally I was scared about my being sans hair but my barber reassured me that being a thinker I am bald in front; sexy people are bald behind and people who think they are sexy are totally bald which I am not. My optimist doctor reassured me that my eyes are OK, as I can see through people, and with both eyes through one keyhole.<\/span><\/p>\n

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