Before she could step onto a film set in Telangana, Sai Pallavi had a medical degree to finish in Georgia. What followed was a Tamil actress learning a dialect she had never spoken, and walking away with one of the most celebrated debuts in Telugu cinema.
I did research first of all. In La pocatière, Québec, they pronounced the ê as like the I in fight, so that’s the sound that ê makes for me and what I say. Do I look stupid pronouncing it like this?…
Grant Barrett is now doing a weekly language column for the Malaysia Star, and this week he talks about saying things the wrong way on purpose — intentional errors like the Internets and coinkydink.…
