Posted by Lale on 29/8/2009, 11:01:29, in reply to "A Suitable Boy"
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Did you wonder how Amit, Kakoli and Tapan were able to come up with those couplets, just like that?
It is possible. Sometimes when you educate your mind to do something like that, it becomes automatic and you can't even stop yourself from doing it.
When I was a child, with a friend of mine (I think we were 12-13) we invented a way of speech which became so natural to us we couldn't stop doing it. For other people this was very difficult to do so spontaneously, but for us it was automatic.
We were swapping the position of every consecutive consonants. This is not possible in English, but in Turkish, it worked very well. Like this:
Ben gidiyorum ==> Beg nidiyorum (I am going)
or
Bugun cok yorgunum ==> Buguc nok yogrunum (Today I am very tired)
Our parents hated it, because we talked to them like that too. They told us to stop it and it took months to re-train our brains to not do it.
Later, when I was in my 20s, one day we had a Kakoli-couplet episode. We were 4-5 friends sitting around talking, making plans for the day. One person happened to use a funny, well-known rhyming expression:
Ben diyorum mangal tahtasi
Sen diyorsun bayram haftasi
(I say fire tongs
You hear holiday week)
This is used to express someone not being in tune with what you are saying. As we know how silly young people can be, this easily triggered an entire weekend of kakoli-couplets, people talked like this, in rhyming couplets for hours and days on end.
It came more naturally to two of us, and they were able to come up with them without any effort. But some of us were like Dipankar and could not do it at all.
Lale
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