mothertongue

Today was a brainstorming day for me....As m very particular in not giving much strain to my lazy brain it was rather a sought of punishment which i thk our department head purposefully gave us.....I believe no body would have felt the other way after attending todays workshop on translation of public education material........
2 emminent personalities well versed in this field adressed us......after quiet a long lecture on tecnical sides of translation...we started the actual task of translating materials in English into our native languages......
And i realised how strong my and even my friends knowledge of our mother tongue.......we were struggling like anythg to get the corresponding malayalam words....when we get words it will not be appropriate to the context and vice versa...starting at 12.00clock we could finish only around 1 page each by 2.00clock.....

But we should appreciate ourselves as we are great creators......

somebody asked a malayalam word for babbling and the answer was so spontaneous......
"bababa"adikunathu is babbling......literally true!!!!!
solitary play became swayam kali
social play ....samuhika kali...
coopertive play:sahakarana kali....
......this ended with a very interseting translation of word bench........
bench:naalu kaal kutti ottapalakayulla ..................................(rest of the part u may guess)

one thg i understood.....love u mothertongue....learn ur mothertongue.....use it.....but .....their is always a better way to do things...like that their is abetter way to communicate,....so for making our language better and for using it in a better way if we need the help of a foreign language their is no harm in tat.........