Word: guddo
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...Moms and dads may hate it, but au courant street slang says a lot about any society. In Japan during the highfalutin '80s, lives were oshare (posh), and indeed they were considering those diamond Rolexes and $15 cups of coffee. Food wasn't tasty, it was chou beri guddo (very very good). Clothes weren't just happening, they were a five-second melody: chooooouuu kaawaaaiiiiiii (very cute). Japanese were enthusiastic once ... and rich...
...breath. I learned that only last month from an article by an English writer named John Hargreaves in Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine. Although the word kabaddi is used for the chant in most of the world, Hargreaves wrote, "in Nepal this is 'Do-Do,' in Sri Lanka 'Guddo,' in Malaysia 'Chaddo-Guddo,' and in Indonesia 'Techib.'" Imagine appearing before the Olympic committee to argue acceptance for a game in which players constantly...
...think that any committee member has ever considered the fact that the Olympic spectacle includes little of the human voice beyond an occasional grunt by a weight lifter. I don't think that anyone has speculated on the multicultural impact of allowing one team to say "chaddo-guddo" while the other says "techib." No, I think kabaddi was simply not believed...
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