Chrestomathy

[Sathyan]

For those who are still trying to make sense of the "Lascari" words...Refer to
http://www.amitavghosh.com/Chrestomat...

hope it helps :)

[Pallavi]

Even though lascari words are hard to understand, as u go on with the story u wil get a hold on them:)

[Marianne]

my edition of this book had the Chrestomathy included at the end, but that did not help me with deciphering what Mr Doughty the pilot was saying.........

[Shai]

For the first couple of paragraphs of Doughty's speech, I really tried to understand what the heck he was saying, word for word. Eventually I gave up and just sort of winged it. At that point it just became hilarious - really one of the funniest parts of the book, I thought.

[Marianne]

Shai wrote: "For the first couple of paragraphs of Doughty's speech, I really tried to understand what the heck he was saying, word for word. Eventually I gave up and just sort of winged it. At that point it ..."

Quite!

[Anne]

In addition to Ghosh "Chrestomathy" you can try :

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries...

but I don't think we need to know word by word

[Kirk]

My favorite piece of slang was Mrs. Burnham's description to Paulette of using an outhouse as "going outside to drop a chitty in the dawk" (literally, drop a letter in the mailbox).

[Stephen]

Kirk wrote: "My favorite piece of slang was Mrs. Burnham's description to Paulette of using an outhouse as "going outside to drop a chitty in the dawk" (literally, drop a letter in the mailbox)."

I rather liked that one, too :)

The slang could be a bit maddening, but one of the things that made the novel a delight.

[Karen]

Shai wrote: "For the first couple of paragraphs of Doughty's speech, I really tried to understand what the heck he was saying, word for word. Eventually I gave up and just sort of winged it. At that point it ..."

I tried to figure it out at first too but then I felt that a lot of the time he was talking to Zachary who also had no idea what he was saying so I was like getting the authentic Zachary experience reading what he was saying.