“Malapropism- Part-1: My Mispronounced version”
This is a story of a word that I mispronounced due to a slip in my tongue. The word Malapropism sounds fancy but it's oddly funny. Actually, it's the time when you say something else instead of the right word because the words sound so similar but they're not.
Have you ever come across a situation like this where you might get confused by word sounds? Personally, I do get confused. Should I feel embarrassed about this? Yes. However, instead of feeling humiliated, I keep them in my funny scenarios of the brain, where a mistake becomes a joke.
Because of that mistake, the room bursts into giggles. Maybe two or three times isn't a big deal; Is it sometimes? Eh, it is still debatable.
It’s a moment where you are not even trying to be funny or crack a joke and it actually becomes funny. LAMO or LoL funny, whichever the case may be. Embarrassing moments turn into a daily comedy.
English becomes funny when a word is mispronounced or when someone says something else in place of the right word. It becomes a joke, you get embarrassed, you laugh, we laugh and move on.
But the story remains in the heart and mind forever. It remains as a joke or a way to get better at the language. During my undergraduate studies, we learnt about linguistics, thus I found inspiration in this. Whether I made a mistake that will never be forgotten or discovered a new word which is meaningless. I simply wanted to share this story.
This is a story of the creation of “Tortoise Blue”.
My sister, my cousins, and I went crazy for a photo shoot, applied some makeup, and pretended to be gorgeous Vogue models at home for a while. Posing and clicking and posing and clicking. Together, this continues for hours. We created some wonderful memories and had a great time.
After all the fun, round two began when we took off all of our makeup looking like hilarious ghosts—or, perhaps I should say, the makeup eventually evolved into a panda and we chuckled over it, ha ha ha.
After washing our faces, we thought of applying a face pack that made us look like ghosts again. As I would say, wearing a face pack is a way of caring for one's own skin. “We can't just sit here with the pack on our faces,” we thought, so we thought of making a fun video in which we introduced ourselves and talked about what we liked, blah, blah. We were trying to hide our identity with the face-pack and make the video seem very goofy.
The four of us are seated comfortably at the top of the table in my cousin's room with four walls, wearing comfortable, decent house clothing rather than the extravagant ones that will make us look attractive. However, what can you expect after a face pack ? We'll be dressed in highly fancy or exquisite attire. You're mistaken, Naur brother (In Australian, Naur means "no.")
All were excited for the video.With the camera kept at a distance we started filming the introductory video. Here we go, yay. With the same Josh we began our video just like any other You Tuber.
“Hi guys, and welcome back to our channel SOB(Sisters of the bitches).” We're pretending like we have uploaded so many videos. However, it was just the first video ever made.
After that, we asked some of the questions and began with our video. Among them were, “What’s your go-to comfort food? If your life were a movie, what genre would it be? If you could swap lives with a cartoon character for a day, who would it be? Etc..,
Then we reached the question on “Our Favourite Colours,” where I completely embarrassed myself. I don’t know what I was thinking at that moment. I usually go with the blue or shades of blue.
Here, however, my mind tells me to “be a fancy and unique girl.” Say “turquoise blue” to be different and creative. It turned out to be a complete mess, even though I thought it would sound nice.
I was waiting for my turn after everyone had said Purple, Pink, and White. After my cousin's sister, my turn had finally come. Even though there were just four of us, I made it sound like I had to wait for a long time. It was going to be my spotlight moment.
With so much confidence, I blurted it out loud, “ My favourite colour is TOR- TOR- TORTOISE BLUE.” It was supposed to be TORQUOISE BLUE. What the heck? My mind and my tongue ran away leaving me behind with all the embarrassment.
Just like that I ruined my spotlight moment, which resulted in total humiliation and a time where everyone in the room burst out laughing. Instead of saying turquoise blue, I said tortoise blue. Is it more embarrassing than it has ever been? After that, my cousin began making fun of me because of my Tortoise blue.
At this point, I questioned if English is funny language or whether we make it hilarious by making dumb, amusing mistakes with the words we use in sentences. In the most ridiculous way possible, I ended up inventing a brand-new colour called Tortoise blue. I laughed about it and moved on from the embarrassment, but it still bugs me.
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