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HOW TO APPROXIMATE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN TELUGU

as ungrammatical as colloquial Telugu. This contention is obviously due to utter ignorance. We shall in future number attempt to explain what is meant in English by the terms colloquial, vulgar, slangy, dialectal, archaic etc., and wind up this article by saying that the idea that those speakers of English who do not speak what is technically known as a dialect in the special sense of the term. are reproducing or attempting to reproduce, in their speech the language of books is fundamentally erroneous.’ Call it by what name you like, polite English, Standard spoken English, it is a living dialect, and as grammatical as any other language and is mother tongue of all the living English women, of English boys and English girls of the upper class. Wherever they may live. It is not learnt from books but from living persons, by association. It is at any given moment nearly uniform but never fixed; is always tending to change. It has more prestige than other English dialects which are now disappearing before it.

  Such is also the mother tongue of the upper classes among the Telugus. It is imperceptibly assimilating to itself the dialects of other classes who are now in close contact with the upper classes who are now in close contact with the upper