Arun Sundar thinks...: NEWS!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

NEWS!

Why was it not called SWEN, SEWN, WENS, EWNS for these can be pronounced too?

Even by folk etymology, North always has to come before South.

One Sighs!

26 comments:

busy-writer said...: North is forward. Forward is optimistic. Hence, priority to north.

SWEN-similar to swan. hence, ruled out.
sewn-err, we dont want another homophone now, do we? so ruled out.
wens-too un-english sounding. ruled out.
ewns-un-pronouncable. ruled out.

what's left now? NEWS.
so that tis!

:D

5 am in the morning and this is all i can think of. :-\; May 15, 2008 at 7:31 PM
N.V.Prashanth said...: Between North pole and the South pole ( I haven't read any where abt East pole and west pole) comes the directions east and west... hence insert Eand W between N and S... NEWS! Did the reasoning sound objective?; May 15, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Lavanya said...: Summava sonnaaru bharathiyar - First-la yaaru irukkangardhu mukkiyam illa. Aana last-la yaaru first vandhu nikkarangardhu dhaan mukkiyam.

Maybe not bharathiyar, but I'm pretty sure you get my point. ;); May 15, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Prashanth's reasoning sounds cool!

btw, if 'north' is considered forward, one has too come to north madras. :P; May 15, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Anonymous said...: *one has to*; May 15, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Unknown said...: NEtWork Stations ???; May 16, 2008 at 12:01 AM
m said...: Now this is what known as an young mind?! questioning the age old traditions!; May 16, 2008 at 7:22 AM
Guru said...: They wrote all combinations of S,N,W,E on different sheets of paper and picked one.

'NEWS' came up.; May 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Shiv said...: too much yosichings; May 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Arun Sundar said...: Busy-writer,
At 5am, that was quite good. And a time like 5am would leave one in confusion whether u woke up just then or u were up till then!

Prashanth,
U utilising the fact that Earth is flat. Accepted. But my topic was south being degraded in front of north. These Indhi pasanga....

Chutney,
Adha simbu sollala??

Victorious,
Exactly. And one has to go north beyond Gummudipundi.

Narayan,
Ada!!

Ela,
Ok Ms.Ouvvayaar.

Guru,
Adhaan baa solrein. South yaen baa last?? south Indians'a saadhaaranama nenachuttaanga. Sigh.

Shiv,
I'm from south.; May 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Slogger said...: Sometimes Arun Sundar thinks too much ;); May 16, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Gayatri said...: lol @slogger! i think i agree with him :); May 17, 2008 at 12:11 AM
busy-writer said...: I was awake till then, :-\; May 17, 2008 at 3:51 PM
rantravereflect/ jane said...: why were you arun?
n not naru,runa, unar?

hop tat answers ya ques :); May 18, 2008 at 12:59 AM
Lavanya said...: hmm..naru.
Suweet nayme! (goundamani style); May 18, 2008 at 2:53 AM
Lavanya said...: hmm..naru.
Suweet nayme! (goundamani style); May 18, 2008 at 2:53 AM
-=A.R.N.=- said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; May 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM
-=A.R.N.=- said...: Whoever said NEWS stood for North-East-West-South anyway?

Maybe they had a list of wacky words and just picked one so that people could have fun guessing what it stood for.; May 18, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Jayaprakash said...: Originally the word meant new things ,which we are not aware of...it's like pluaral form of "New"....then it started getting used to denote NEWS as in today's sense - current happenings around the world...the abbreviation of NEWS is just an after-thought , hence I believe there is no bias behind this word....; May 18, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Preeti said...: Cha! I dont have any witty answer to give! Maybe they r giving out all new stuff, so plural la NEWs...maybe??? :-/; May 19, 2008 at 1:51 AM
Rayees Ahamed said...: N E W S = Naaasamaaga Ezhuthum Wetti Sangam; May 19, 2008 at 6:17 AM
Absconding said...: It's got to do with magnetic field lines and electric charges, I bet!!! So since these 'originate' from the North, 'N' must be given the first priority in the acronym (it's more like a mnemonic).

So these lines end up in South, right? Well..so you'd think that South would be given the next priority or the next SEAT. It was!

But then, they both produced two children - East and West- twins (a boy and a girl). Since we have a tradition of putting children in between the parents, East and West were put in appropriate places.

Ofcourse, E comes before W and there is no question a bout it. ... and..Voila..

N E W S

SWEN is used by those who are advocates of South. But those are people from the South, mainly!

Any other combination is screaming out a dysfunctional family..since both parents are in opposite ends and children must be in the middle!!; May 19, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Arun Sundar said...: Slogger,
Yaaa. People get old. And they become so :)

Gayatri,
Ayye thu!

Busy-writer,
Very good. Keep it up, for '6 or 7 is 'up'per than 5 :)

Ranravereflect,
Hey! smart!! And I used to call myself so when I was bk in 3rd std. Later I came to know my name was formed, not just by jumbling letters. But by folk etymology(source:wikipedia), 'news' is formed so. And I did not have a problem with that. Just that I asked why does South have to come behind North in this.; May 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Arun Sundar said...: Chutney,
I know. Its indeed a suweet nayme like 'Mandaaghini'.

Rahman,
My history mam told me long ago. Stupid her.

JP,
Correct. I did some google, before posting too :) But what the heck? Still they shouldn't have called it an acronym. South paavam.

Preeti,
You are actually right. And as jyotika says in 'dum dum dum', its not that if one blabbers, everybody has to blabber :); May 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Arun Sundar said...: Rayees,
Cool expansion. But media ppl would hunt u down and kill you :)

Absconding,
The award for the 'most sensible comment to the most silly post' goes to you :) Very good, with the kids in between the parents and all!; May 19, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Absconding said...: :D I'm honored and ecstatic! :D Yippee!; May 20, 2008 at 12:05 PM