tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post3348629453906201631..comments2024-01-28T00:22:37.487-08:00Comments on Senseless Sense?Or sensible nonsense?: The rape of the whore and languageSpaceman Spiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05143505093943885418noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-49010827316145856092014-10-05T10:33:27.264-07:002014-10-05T10:33:27.264-07:00i used to wonder what munda means in hindi...in te...i used to wonder what munda means in hindi...in telugu it translates as bitch(randi) lolAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14351591267704960548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-55669883707314611502013-04-26T15:04:18.055-07:002013-04-26T15:04:18.055-07:00Hehe.. lol thats a good one. Even i speak telugu, ...Hehe.. lol thats a good one. Even i speak telugu, toddy means 'kallu' in telugu as well. Kanulu or kanllu means eyes (there is 'n' sound here). OMG.. palli means Lizard?? Yakk!!Sharathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10916147177481952794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-22527165389664255362012-09-13T11:40:55.046-07:002012-09-13T11:40:55.046-07:00Really rib tickling post :-). Reminded me of my sc...Really rib tickling post :-). Reminded me of my school days.<br /><br />Our Marathi teacher would read from one of our lessons: "Shaam...kundit maati tak" (Shaam, put mud in the plant pot)...and all the mallu and tamilian kids would go into a giggling frenzy. It was a long time later when one of the parents explained the mallu meaning to the teacher. <br /><br />I wonder how she must have handled students in her future classes after coming to know this. Srinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12438925623934806790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-85195684067530844602011-12-08T00:18:16.144-08:002011-12-08T00:18:16.144-08:00Mujhe aapke post pe bada 'fukr' hai... ;-)...Mujhe aapke post pe bada 'fukr' hai... ;-)phaticharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01458914636112852499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-12007064502500053402011-12-06T20:42:50.938-08:002011-12-06T20:42:50.938-08:00Ha Ha very funny.
I am a Bengali girl married to ...Ha Ha very funny. <br />I am a Bengali girl married to a Malayali guy. Here are few more funny translations I came across..<br />Chor- Thief in Hindi/bengali, but rice in Malayalam. <br />Mundu- Funny way to say 'Head' in Bengali, dhoti in Malayalam.<br />Poti- Granddaughter in hindi, a potli type of bag in MalayalamPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17600166917889802165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-88098480316986760282011-11-28T02:55:23.392-08:002011-11-28T02:55:23.392-08:00@PeeVee: That was exactly the effect I wanted the ...@PeeVee: That was exactly the effect I wanted the title to have! :D<br /><br />@Rahul: The other way round, let me do some more research. :P<br /><br />@Express: I like listening to Bengali. It sounds lovely! It's as though everyone's put a rasagulla in their mouth and is speaking. :)<br /><br />@Destiny's Child: Seriously?? Samsaram in Tamil means wife??<br /><br />@Menachery: Oh I have no qualms about eating groundnuts still. I'm used to it by now. :PSpaceman Spiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05143505093943885418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-84347877404775509382011-11-28T02:52:11.486-08:002011-11-28T02:52:11.486-08:00@Sumitra: :D Good luck with that!
@Confused soul...@Sumitra: :D Good luck with that! <br /><br />@Confused soul: :P<br /><br />@Deepthi: Ah! That's one more word I've learnt in Telugu.<br /><br />@kalpak: No no, not at all. This has been going on in my mind for some time. Kolaveri song doesn't really have anything to do with misunderstanding in a language, right? It's basically just bad Tamil and English. :)<br /><br />@TheBluntBlogger: 'Choos' basically means'see'. And yes, I agree, it's wuite a weird word. :D<br /><br />@Subroto: Didn't know that! Thanks for the info. :)<br /><br />@Srinidhi: Arre, come back here no then. We'll party together. ;)Spaceman Spiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05143505093943885418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-9842561568896610652011-11-28T00:36:49.804-08:002011-11-28T00:36:49.804-08:00HAahhahha loved th ereppu randi bit, and esp the &...HAahhahha loved th ereppu randi bit, and esp the 'kundi lagaya' one, am a mallu, and could never hold my laughter when i use to hear them frommy neighbours (They considered me slightly retard, till i told them wha it menas)<br /><br />I was teaching a friend mallu, and the only word he remembers is RANDU ... cz it apparently rhymes with a word, and well it has semblance to randi :D .. <br /><br />LAnguages are super cool, embarassing and fun, am i glad i was born in India or wat...<br /><br />Yuck imagine eating groundnut now :P ...Menacheryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641542758985010065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-52610110971494070442011-11-27T00:24:39.295-08:002011-11-27T00:24:39.295-08:00So true spiff and so hilarious. My cousins used to...So true spiff and so hilarious. My cousins used to laugh at me every time I used to tell my mother, 'Amma njan kundi ittu' :D, when we were at Kerala during summer vacations. I stopped used the word when we permanently shifted to Kerala...;)<br /><br />One of the professors at college told us about her experience. She told her Tamilian servant boy when he was talking too loudly, 'Ninte samsaram sheriyalla' and that guy got violent it seems. Later, the Professor discovered, Samsaram means wife! :DDestiny's child...https://www.blogger.com/profile/17057033204086978256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-42065116003731240942011-11-26T20:00:46.619-08:002011-11-26T20:00:46.619-08:00LOL! you have captured the flavor of the post just...LOL! you have captured the flavor of the post just so perfectly! <br /><br />The bengali words are hilarious cz of their accent. Well, I just blank out whenever any south-indian language is spoken, so i can say little about the words that scared me to the death.. <br /><br />:)Expresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181434250459614635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-81880920073976265222011-11-26T04:55:49.418-08:002011-11-26T04:55:49.418-08:00:-) Hell!!!!!Now how come so many words in Telegu ...:-) Hell!!!!!Now how come so many words in Telegu and Malayali simply have not so pleasant meanings in Hindi???:-P Does it work the other way around too....????Rahulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978139164983441198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-4665883357375104932011-11-26T01:08:48.818-08:002011-11-26T01:08:48.818-08:00I almost fell over when I read the title wondering...I almost fell over when I read the title wondering how you're going to explain THAT away:D <br /><br />And I actually DID fall over laughing about the kundi bit:P <br /><br />Kuthire:P I was imagining a field of horses and the hero and heroine on them, does that make me a true-blue Mallu with a wild imagination?:PCookieCrumbsInc.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06913746088715446566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-65380308782688744082011-11-25T22:37:03.275-08:002011-11-25T22:37:03.275-08:00I have thousands of comments on the reppu randi :D...I have thousands of comments on the reppu randi :D making it almost my favourite telugu worlds. :D heheheh.<br /><br />lovely post. made me crave for my beautiful city.Srinidhihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09828533428913795413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-27043284195323724372011-11-25T19:49:08.085-08:002011-11-25T19:49:08.085-08:00When my dad got posted to a cantonment in Maharash...When my dad got posted to a cantonment in Maharashtra from Delhi, my mother once sent someone out to get a kilo of meat. He came back with a kilo of salt.<br />'What is this?'<br />'Meath, one kilo'<br />'But this is salt. I had asked for a kilo of goat meat'<br />'Aaah, mutton....'<br />So now we know 'meath' in marathi means salt.Subrotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09201941160294779130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-31096466702370474572011-11-25T07:23:36.477-08:002011-11-25T07:23:36.477-08:00I never knew about all this! The only fact I knew ...I never knew about all this! The only fact I knew about Randi was Randy Zuckerberg....<br /><br />When I was in hyderabad, the only word I noticed was, cheppendi :) and choos....they say choos a lot and it for some reason made me very uncomfortable :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-56767502144536032542011-11-25T07:19:48.810-08:002011-11-25T07:19:48.810-08:00a very interestin post miss namibia :)
reppu rand...a very interestin post miss namibia :)<br /><br />reppu randi had me laughing hard<br /><br />im sure the recent kolaveri is the inspiration behind this post, eh?!kalpak n.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09923423050613007108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-48459573062658921432011-11-25T06:59:01.083-08:002011-11-25T06:59:01.083-08:00My friend cum roomie is a cheppandi, but born and ...My friend cum roomie is a cheppandi, but born and brought up in Kerala. Last night she was telling us an experience her mom had the first time she landed in Kerala.<br />It seems in Telugu "Kappa" means frog. And when she heard the vegetable vendor going around telling "Kappa, kappa", she thought he was selling frogs :P!!!<br />Really interesting are the linguistic differences!!!Writing Beehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03333799489599973639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-84686987395118583272011-11-25T06:56:07.444-08:002011-11-25T06:56:07.444-08:00"People were just too lazy to create words fo..."People were just too lazy to create words for each language, so they threw words from one language to another, and expected us to be ok with it."- haha exactly man... they were so weird man... reppu randi :P .. lol this was hilarious :DConfused Soulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11497512142703084234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-80080533076095547092011-11-25T04:34:52.193-08:002011-11-25T04:34:52.193-08:00Haha, lovely post. Very well written.
I have both...Haha, lovely post. Very well written.<br /><br />I have both telugu and tamil relatives, and I'm used to such language misunderstandings on both sides. Often, I'm the only one that gets it and I have to do the explaining. But it is hillarious!sumitrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06982291967366746019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-56606973924551580342011-11-25T04:31:08.628-08:002011-11-25T04:31:08.628-08:00@maithili: Oh kundi has such a meaning also?! :O
...@maithili: Oh kundi has such a meaning also?! :O<br /><br />@Bhargavi: Stop!! I know what it means in Malayalam! :D Ayyo!<br /><br />@Shrijeet: Most non-malayalam speakers face the 'Chumma dilemma' the first time they hear it. :D<br />Thanks for dropping by. :)<br /><br />@Sunitha: I'm from North Kerala, so I would know. :D We also say 'chaadu', which normally means 'jump', for 'throw'. Having lived mostly in South Kerala, the first time I heard this in my native place, I thought somebody took the rotten vegetables and jumped! :D<br /><br />@Chandamna: Hehe. the next time you eat palli, I know what you're think of! :D<br /><br />@Red: My pleasure. Please go scandalize people. :P<br /><br />@Akila: :D We don't use that word for big vessel in Malayalam much, so I didn't think of it till you pointed it out. :DSpaceman Spiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05143505093943885418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-88579386208619910542011-11-25T04:20:28.527-08:002011-11-25T04:20:28.527-08:00@Kunal: Oh this 'randi' thing was like a b...@Kunal: Oh this 'randi' thing was like a big shock to me! :O<br /><br />@Viya: Karappu means black in my mother tongue as well! :D<br /><br />@Krishna: :D Ayyo paavam paatti!!:D<br /><br />@R-A-J: tell me about it! I'm from North Kerala, and I know exactly how we talk! :/<br /><br />@Keirthana: Oh this 'selavu' thing had me confused too. I was wondering why people were asking about 'tomorrow's expense'. :/<br /><br />@AS: Hahaha! :D "Kundi bandh nahi ho raha!!" :DSpaceman Spiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05143505093943885418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-65137226137838741562011-11-25T00:45:59.714-08:002011-11-25T00:45:59.714-08:00how did u miss ANDA???
hindi 'anda' is EGG...how did u miss ANDA???<br />hindi 'anda' is EGG-u (kola veri effect) and tamil/malayalam 'anda' means huge vessel<br /><br />ANDAVULA ANDA cheyya mudiyumo???Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04378818137285877952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-5490381095804777502011-11-24T22:44:14.175-08:002011-11-24T22:44:14.175-08:00hehehehehehh awesome yaar
REPPU RANDI!! Now i will...hehehehehehh awesome yaar<br />REPPU RANDI!! Now i will piss of some people aorund me :P<br />Thankyou for thisRed Handedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17062645716811851771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-27142876248698069932011-11-24T22:32:46.198-08:002011-11-24T22:32:46.198-08:00hahah this is so hilarious! I speak telugu at home...hahah this is so hilarious! I speak telugu at home everyday but this is the first time am looking at it from a different angle! <br />LOL.. Palli means lizard? Eww! <br />Kallu means toddy even in telugu. But kallu (with a heavy l) means eyes.<br />But yeah there were many such incidents with my north indian friends..They mix up all the words and genders and what not! Its so fun to teach them telugu!Chandanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17306046117454371506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008635650302032737.post-8279494931319821562011-11-24T21:48:32.786-08:002011-11-24T21:48:32.786-08:00ha ha .. hilarious. I haven't been to andhra p...ha ha .. hilarious. I haven't been to andhra pradesh, so most of the words were new. But I have heard of the reppu one as a joke from one of my friends. I have also been realy confused when I hear thural in tamil songs as it means totally something else in malayalam. <br /><br />When I was working in chennai, my roommate was from north kerala (kannur) and her language was a lot different from mine. We wer walking in the rains one day when we came near a puddle , she suddenly said thullu thullu.. I thought sh went crazy as in normal malayalam, it means to do a kind of dance. But she was referring to jumping across the puddle.Sunitha Vijayanarayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01456891222849014131noreply@blogger.com