Tunes Of Speech

Naradaa listens to many different kinds of speeches.  First of all, when someone says that he heard a few speeches today, what comes to mind is some political meeting and speeches. But there are many kinds of speeches and political speeches are just some of them.

What Naradaa means is not that kind of speeches. Should I say ‘speakings’ rather than speeches? The ways of speaking is what Naradaa means. You may say tones of speaking or even Tunes of speaking.

Bernard Shaw wrote a drama called Pygmalion based on the ways the English Language is spoken I different dialects by different people even within the same city. It was made into a movie, ‘My Fair Lady’ in English, adapted to a movie ‘Man Pasand’ in Hindi and a host of other adaptations were made in many languages – for stage and screen.

But the languages have already passed that stage. And this is not only for English or Hindi – but almost all spoken languages. Many new tunes of speech have been developed.

Naradaa is trying to list a few of these and later wants to collect audios. Some of the listed tunes are as given below.

Listen to children reading or talking in the class to the teacher. Right from ‘Good Morning Madam’ to ‘Once upon a time, there was ….’, they all speak the same way. Not only the children, but when teachers talk to the children, the same tune creeps in. What Naradaa is not able to ascertain is which is cause and which is effect. Luckily when the children talk to each other, or the teachers talk to each other, they have not started talking in that tune.

Or listen to the TV advertisements. I do not think anyone could speak in those tunes in normal life.

The anchors of many reality shows have developed their own way of speaking. Naradaa could only understand one point from these. There is almost an unwritten rule that they should not speak the natural way. Just like when one ‘walks the Ramp’, one should not walk the natural way.

This list is in no way, complete. There are sports commentators, news readers, corporate heads, spokesmen of parties or groups and a lot of others who has made the languages richer by adding more and more tunes to them.