You wake up one morning and have forgotten your mother tongue

[echarcha]

I have had a thread before about waking up one morning and finding that there is no Internet. What would your reactions be, how would you cope etc.

Well on the same lines, a wild thought came to me.

Imagine you can speak your mother tongue and English. You wake up tomorrow morning and find that you have completely forgotten your mother tongue. You cannot recognise anything about your language. Its all Greek to you.

What will you do? What will be your reaction? Will you try to re-learn the language?

[DesiBaba]

Originally Posted by echarcha

What will you do? What will be your reaction? ?

i'll consider mahself to be a southie

[Napolean]

My first thought will be :"Jhinga lala,what happened..why am I not able to think anything?"
Then I will start talking to even my good friends in english who will think this guy is drunk heavily and kick me surely....then pro'ly will help me in re-learning the language....

[dhurandhar]

Originally Posted by echarcha

I have had a thread before about waking up one morning and finding that there is no Internet. What would your reactions be, how would you cope etc.

Well on the same lines, a wild thought came to me.

Imagine you can speak your mother tongue and English. You wake up tomorrow morning and find that you have completely forgotten your mother tongue. You cannot recognise anything about your language. Its all Greek to you.

What will you do? What will be your reaction? Will you try to re-learn the language?

I would love it....will help me assimilate into US faster

[smellyfinger]

Originally Posted by echarcha

Imagine you can speak your mother tongue and English. You wake up tomorrow morning and find that you have completely forgotten your mother tongue. You cannot recognise anything about your language. Its all Greek to you.

What if one's mother tongue IS Greek?

[Desi24]

The biggest problem I would have is not being able to watch Hindi movies and enjoying the music as well. Other than that....it wouldn't bother me too much.

The thing that would bother me a lot would.....how in the heck did I forgot a language overnight!!!!

[Alibaba]

Originally Posted by smellyfinger

What if one's mother tongue IS Greek?

LOL...


Cha pai, where do you come up with such thoughts from anyways?? Interesting really.. A person who talks about shit almost everytime he writes on eCharcha can be so philosophical too..!! Surprising...

Hmm... it would be a challenge really... and frustrating too.. coz you have to re learn everything that you already knew at some point of time! At this age, it would definitely be more difficult for me to learn the language again coz I believe your grasping capacity reduces as time passes by. I mean, at a very young age, say when you are 5/6 your mind is the most impressionable. I am certainly not that young anymore! So, it would be a struggle of sorts.. probably I'll learn it better.. perhaps I'll not learn it so well.. Maybe it would all depend on the amount of usage of the language. I would certainly want to stress on languages which are more contemporary and more in use! For instance for me, Marathi is not as important as English anymore, so I would rather learn English better than Marathi now!

I hope I am able to convey my point.....

[Desi24]

Originally Posted by Alibaba

LOL...
A person who talks about shit almost everytime he writes on eCharcha can be so philosophical too..!! Surprising...

hahahahha.....echarcha bhai....aapki kya reputation ho gayi hai yaar.....

[Cooldude]

Originally Posted by echarcha

You wake up tomorrow morning and find that you have completely forgotten your mother tongue. You cannot recognise anything about your language. Its all Greek to you.

What will you do? What will be your reaction? Will you try to re-learn the language?

Though I can speak my mother tongue Tamil pretty well, I still can't read the script at all. Never learnt it during schooling. So even now, Its all Greek to me.

[Alibaba]

Originally Posted by Desi24

hahahahha.....echarcha bhai....aapki kya reputation ho gayi hai yaar.....

I do not mean to offend anyone here... cha pai... it was just an inoccuous li'll comment. Hope you find the humour in it... sorry if it sounds offending...

[Alibaba]

Originally Posted by echarcha

Let the Friday begin

I think we have had enough of the terrorists and blasts and all that. Atleast I have had enough. I know I came across as totally right wing and this and that. Well, that is my political opinion and I dont care how others take it.

As for everything else I am still the same.

So let me narrate something classic that happened to me in office yesterday, but the atmosphere on echarcha was so charged that I forgot to tell you about it.

I had a late lunch, rather a burger at Carl's Junior and was returning back to office. Now this burger gave me some flatulence so I let one small one out in the car itself and then was proud that I had to roll down my windows despite the sweltering heat outside.

So now, safe in the knowledge that I have let one nice one out, I rode the office elevator. In there with me were two colleagues from different teams. One was a lady and the other was a young guy. Lo and behold, I just let out a small one inadvertently. I could not hide my face or look elsewhere except the ceiling. I was praying that others wont make me feel embarassed and wanted to get off the elevator really soon. Just then the young guy also farted and started to look around sheepishly. I was relieved that one more person had farted and I was not the only bad guy.

One thing I noticed was that my fart in the elevator was just sound effects and no perfume. Same with the other guy. As the fourth floor approached and the doors were about to open, I noticed this lady shifting her weight from one leg to another in a typical fashion. I expected her to fart too, but heck no. She let out a Stinker Daisy Cutter and just walked out. We both were uncomfortable. The other guy and me looked at each other and there was an expression of recognition that "Hey this chick really outdid us both

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This is what I am referring to...