Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Invention of Flanguage

tl;dr
Flanguage is a version of English in which you make portmanteau of fuck & pretty much any word you can for added effect & brevity. That does not mean you do that to every other word in a sentence. You have to choose the right word(s) in the sentence to flanguagize for flanguage to have the best effect.
Some popular flanguagized words are

  • Fawsome - fucking awesome
  • Fuggly - fucking ugly
  • Fungry - fucking hungry

Fungry is actually the first flanguagized word.
It all happened on a road trip with 3 friends - Aditya(the first user of Flanguage), Ravi & Rakshit.
In retrospect, frip embodied flanguage & was the perfect frip to come up with it. A little background info is in order.
There was confusion as to where we were going & what we were gonna do there. We got lost quiet a few times, misjudged the time it would take to get to place, and after finally reaching there found it to be a huge letdown, got into a couple of tiffs with the locals, got into a heated debate about religion & spent a majority of the time driving around.
Even before the frip started there were signs that this trip wasn't going to be something F.
The plan was to take a bus to Jaipur after midnight & link up with Rakshit and then drive to our destination. So on Friday, 13th of August I left my house, on the edge of East Delhi at about 6pm, to Adi's place, in Gurgaon - beyond west Delhi, to meet up with him & Ravi. Luckily the metro got me there in an hour. But then what should have been a comfortable sub 30 minute commute from the metro station to Adi's house turned into a harrowing 2 hour adventure hopping the infamous Gurgaon shared autos.
But that was nothing compared to what happened to Ravi. He was home visiting his parents & planned to take the afternoon train into Gurgaon. Yeah right. All the trains were full, jam packed & he ended up riding on the roof of one.
Finally time came to leave & we got to the bus station. Yeah, we weren't going anywhere, all the buses were full. No space on the roofs even! Why would there be any space on any bus, the hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan was on the 14th & people were rushing back to their homes.
Luckily for us Adi called his dad & asked for the car and we were on our way to Jaipur.
So this was the trip during which Flanguage was invented.
So, on the morning of the 14th, I don't know the exact time - all I remember was that it was really early but the sun was up; we had just hit some town - don't remember which one; Ravi was sleeping in the back seat. Adi looks at me & says "I'm fungry, oh I meant fucking hungry". And that is when Flanguage was invented.
My contribution - Among other things, I coined the term flanguage :D
tl;dr : Invented a fawsome version of English called Flanguage.

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