Prof.Dr.K.Loga muthu krishnan, Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon.
Created | Updated May 29, 2012
Hello! hullo! hi! howdy! Hallo! salut! ciao! hej! olá! ??????! hej! moi! hei!! morn!
hola! ??! ?e?a! (ep?f.) (???)?! All mean the same albeit in different languages!
Talking about Translations and Languages - DYK (Do You Know) How to find the
mother-tongue of a seasoned Multilinguist who can speak in umpteen languages
as fluently as you can speak in your own mother-tongue?
When such a multilinguist - basically a Tamilian with Tamil as his mother-tongue -
baffled and challenged the court of King Sri Krishnadevaraya of South Indian
Vijayanagara Empire and none of the scholarly courtiers could find his
mother-tongue, all eyes turned to the court's scholar-poet-clown, Vikata Kavi Tenali
Raman (full name - Garlapati Tenali Ramakrishnacharyulu). Tenali pretended to give
up and go away but surreptitiously went behind the multilinguist and hit him in the
back, on which the multilinguist instantaneously shouted in pain, "Ayyo! Amma!!"
(Tamil Phrase for "Oh Mummy!"). Thus Tenali exposed the multilinguist's
mother-tongue to be Tamil, as anybody's instantaneous cry in unexpected pain
will be only in his (/ her) ("Man Embraces Woman" - as Sir.Winston Churchill
said in the English Parliament - very parliamentary indeed!)) mother-tongue!
