VYAKARAN: Re: Classical Sanskrit Accent

[Narayan S. Raja]

> >  dc> Oh, and BTW you'll probably be understood better if you
> >  dc> refrain from, as the
> >  dc> South-Indian idiom goes, "speaking in Sanskrit." <grin>
> > 
> > Is this South Indian? I've never heard it. Perhaps you mean Tamilian?
> 
> Oh, yes :)! Its said even in Telugu, and have heard some of my Malayali 
> friends saying something 'very' similar.


Yes, it's used jokingly in Tamil.
It's also used jokingly in Marathi, 
to mean "saying something obscene".

Regards,


Raja.