Inscriptions and Dravidian sound changes "y" > "c" and "y" >

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 07:31 PM 5/25/98 EDT, S.Palaniappa wrote:

>The hyper-corrective behavior Krishnamurti mentions can be expected from a
>person with literacy in Sanskrit and comparative/historical linguistic
>knowledge.

This is not correct. It is the illiterate person who is afraid that
he is pronouncing a word wrongly that tries to hypercorrect.

For example a street vendor selling limes
calling 'darbhakAyalu' instead of 'dabbakayalu'.

Sometimes even the learned fall into the hypercorrection trap but
more often it is the unlearned and illiterate.

regards,

sarma.