Madras bashai favours Tamil syntactic structures, with heavy use of English words..

The following examples illustrates the heavy use of English words, even for basic concepts:

Code-switching also plays a very important role in Madras bashai. For instance, a person aggrieved with the English in this article may plaintively wail:

किंवा खर्या तमिळभाषेतील वाक्य न समजल्याने एखादा विद्यार्थी नकारार्थी मान हलवत महाविद्यालयातील विद्यार्थ्यांसमोर देखील असे म्हणेल ::

इथे हे नमूद करणे महत्त्वाचे ठरेल जर हेच वाक्य तमिळ मध्ये व्यक्त करायचे असते:
"वा तलैमुई ऍल्लाम्‌ मुलुक्क आंगिल्मदान् पेचूवांक्"

even in a colloquial form (as evidenced by the verb, "pēcuvānka", as opposed to "pēcuvārka"), the word choice itself would make the sentence sound lofty and formal; words such as "talaimuai" are associated with literature, not everyday speech.

Readers can understand immediately that this was done to save time, so that in the same period of time a Madras Tamilar can convey 1.5 times that of a Madurai, Tirunelveli Tamilar and 3 times that of an Erode Tamilar and 5 times that of a Coimbatore Tamilar (depending on the length of the drawl, like 'yaeeeeeeenunga?') One anomaly to this shortening rule is, some words get suffixed with the syllable 'ka'. So, summa = summaka, dhoora = dhooraka.

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