Doing a ‘ganguly’?
In the last couple of days, SMS and email messages doing the rounds are claiming the official acceptance of two new words by Oxford Dictionary with reference to India - ‘bangalored’ and ‘ganguly’!
While ‘bangalored’ is a term coined in the US for jobs outsourced to Bangalore as a result of which people are being laid-off in the US, ‘ganguly’ apparently means “something that comes and goes immediately”. For eg, his attendance in office is ‘ganguly’.
According to Vani Mahesh, proprietrix, EasyLib.com, “Such words add to a livelier conversation but should not be made official. They could be used as emoticoms like smileys. But they certainly should not become part of a dictionary. SMS culture is promoting such words.”
Sunil Kumar, founder of Samskrutha Surabhi, who has worked in the IT sector before says, “In a global village, it’s natural for words to find common acceptance. New words tend to have both positive and negative effects. Words like ‘Bangalored’ are hostile. But they are accepted once they become common. ‘Pink slips’ too happened post-9/11.”
He too feels SMS helps spread such words rapidly. “Most words are coined by people who are bored in life! I wouldn’t use such words even if Oxford officially accepts them.” A net search threw up some of these words as potential entries for the next Oxford update:
DicChicks (pl. n): Delhi-ites who travel at breakneck speed in their cars with loud blaring "dic-chick" music; Manjured (v): Slicing your fingers while flying kites; Howrah (v): The sneeze you feel but doesn’t come through (derived from Kolkata station where the rail always rattles but the train never comes through).
Source : www. deccanherald.com
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