Bizarre Vocab (standard:non fiction, 895 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: Jun 22 2011	Views/Reads: 2574/1740	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A student over enthusiastic in speaking only in English started using bizarre vocab.

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After several of weeks of comradeship during study group 

sessions, Mallikarjun invited Juggernaut to visit his home in another 

part of town.  His house was few hundred feet from temple of Hindu 

Goddess Lakshmi know to bless her devotees with wealth. People in 

business and young women seeking rich husbands were the ardent devotees 

of Goddess Lakshmi. 

Mallikarjun's house was a row-house on a very narrow street 

with open sewer drains on both sides of the street creating hazard of 

falling into if one was not mindful of street topography. Pedestrians, 

people riding bicycles and rickshaws mindful of each other shared the 

narrow path with utmost caution. Walking slowly, Juggernaut followed 

Mallikarjun into the house, momentarily blinded from entering dark home 

from bright sunlight. 

The living room was large with stuff stored along the walls 

some in metal trunks stacked up against the walls; a large high-rise 

bed occupied one corner.  Since no lights were lit, it was hard to see 

if anybody was sleeping on the bed. Mallikarjun introduced Juggernaut 

to his elderly mother and older brother as his good friend and mentor 

to the embarrassment of Juggernaut not used that kind of introduction. 

After spending some time in the large room, Juggernaut heard a feeble 

voice from the bed, with close attention he noticed an old man curled 

up sleeping on the bed. Without paying much attention, Mallikarjun 

pointed towards the old man on the bed and said “he is my father a 

rogue suffering from paralysis.” Juggernaut was shocked to hear the 

word “rogue.”  The word ‘Rogue' in English was meant a scoundrel or a 

scamp, a person with a bad character. In native language, the 

word ‘rogee' is a person with a disease. Mallikarjun's creative English 

vocabulary went haywire in the context to call his father a rogue to 

describe his father afflicted with paralysis. Baffled with the use of 

word ‘Rogue,' Juggernaut pretended as if he heard nothing. 

Mallikarjun proficiency in English was improved to such an 

extent, after completing High School, he went straight into the 

business of selling life insurance. Fluent in English, he impressed 

potential clients to buying into expensive life insurance policies. 

People were carried away with his fancy English words and bought 

insurance coverage well above their needs from Mallikarjun. 

Decades later, Juggernaut was travelling in a train suddenly 

recognized a familiar voice describing the benefits of having a life 

insurance policy only to meet  Mallikarjun trying to peddle insurance 

policies to fellow travelers in the train.  Mallikarjun has all the 

praise for Juggernaut for allowing him into the study group that led 

him into successful insurance business. Juggernaut in return praised 

Mallikarjun for giving an opportunity to become a serious student from 

an easy going student life.  Flashed into Juggernaut's mind, the 

word ‘Rogue' Mallikarjun used years ago to describe his father's 

disability from paralysis. Though his English failed then to describe 

his father's medical condition, he was certainly mesmerizing people now 

with his English to buying into insurance. 


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