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 SpokenTeluguSpoken Telugu [sic], on the other hand, is so unrelated to written Telugu that the Telugu speeches of the leaders of the Telugu Academy which are quite as intelligible to the whole Telugu audience as are the English speeches to the English people, certainly require the aid of the Pandit or the lexicon when recast into what is called literary Telugu for publication in the journal of the Telugu Academy for it is considered beneath the dignity not only of the Journal but of the orator also that the printed speech should be in the same "vulgar form" in which it issued out of the mouth of the speaker. It is well known that every Telugu book printed during the last fifty years is deliberately composed in an artificial dialect under the influence of a false notion that the language of books should be as remote as possible from the current spoken language of the writers themselves.

Let us now proceed to enquire into the features of the English language in which 'popular books' are written. We shall discuss only a few of the most popular among them. To begin with Malory's Morte'd ArthurMorte d'Arthur [sic]. We have to note that Malory was a knight and not a 'scholar.' "The prose of Malory is admirable. It is spoilt by no tricks of affectation, It aims merely at doing its duty as a rendering of its master's thought. What particularly distinguishes it is its thoroughly idiomatic character. Malory