TELUGU
Usage in Telugu language
AMBIKA ANANTH
TELUGU BHASHALO MELAKUVALU: T. Sanjeevarao; Sunanda publications, 57, Prasanna Vinayakar Koil Street, Mylapore, Chennai-600004.
Rs. 100.
TO THE author of this book, working with zeal to instill in students clarity and flawlessness while writing and speaking Telugu the prescribed textbooks in schools came as a shock. Misspellings and grammatical errors are in plenty. Further he also observed erroneous usage of the language in newspapers, magazines and the electronic media. Writers, journalists and poets are also not above board. A serious study of this resulted in a series of essays and this volume is a compilation of those articles. The errors are classified as those of ignorance, of carelessness and those arising due to misconceived notions. By repeated usage in print and in day-to-day speech some of the bloomers gained general approval.
Most common and basic of these are analysed under various meaningful sub-headings, pointing out the correct forms of these words with grammatical explanations. One feels surprised at the predominance of Sanskrit grammar over Telugu.
Clarifications in the case of short and stretch syllables and `Repham' and `Vatruvasudi' would be eye-openers to many. Suffixes and resulting derivatives are other vulnerable areas.
The author is to be congratulated for taking up this very helpful study, which can be recommended as study material for language-teacher trainees and also as a reference manual for journalists.
Photographs and too many letters of appreciation are a burden on this slim volume. Instead there could be chapters dealing with sentence construction and phraseology.
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