Comments on: Humpty Dumpty is an Evil Imperialist

By: newmom

newmom — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:02:59 +0000

well I sing it like this to my baby...this is usually sung when the baby is 2-12 months old... spread ur legs together and keep the baby on the knees. and keep one hand on her back/neck and one in the front and rock the baby with this song

aani bantu aani ya ooru aani bijapurad aani,ilige yakke bantu haadi tappi bantu aa darige ondu doodu, ee darige ondu doodu, erudu sherkondu, sher khobbare thandu yellargu kottu, kuusin baayag battu

For non kannadigas, Elphant comes elephant comes, from which land did he come? Frm the land of bijapur, why did he come here? he forgot the way so.. he found one paissa this lane he found another on this lane he took them both and bought coconut he broke it latalatlata distributed it to all kids and the baby puts finger in the mouth...

By: Jai

Jai — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:22:38 +0000

Amitabh & Chandi,

Thank you both very much for your kind words re: post #71.

I wasn’t sure about “zindagi ki naseeb” either (hopefully you get the general idea of what I was trying to say), and I took a little poetic licence in omitting a couple of words (mainly “hai”, as in “hum sab hai kudrat ke bande”) in order to make the rhythm “fit”.

I have a feeling that if I’d been born a couple of centuries ago, I’d probably be spouting Urdu/Persian couplets all the time

By: chandi

chandi — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 03:17:56 +0000

Thanks PGW. I had heard that about Tamil–the vast difference between spoken and written. Makes sense now.

By: P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:17:49 +0000

Chandi:

Maitri: nice. But of course any Tamil pullavar who was going to put "Umtee Dumtee" into a textbook would insist on it being written in Sentamizh, no?

`Tamil pullavar' means Tamil pundit.

Sentamizh' is harder to explain. Tamil is diglossic, i.e., the Tamil that people use for day-to-day conversation is different from the Tamil they would write in an examination.Sentamizh' is the Tamil that people would write in an examination. Search this URL for `digloss'.

By: chandi

chandi — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:45:42 +0000

Jai, I second very nice indeed (a couple of words missing, and not sure about zindagi ka naseeb). And, it’s not a straight translation either, very philosophical. I don’t think there were many straight up translations. Everyone had a field day with the re-creations.

By: Chandi

Chandi — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:46:29 +0000

OK, I should be clear--what I meant was would the Tamilians explain what this means, what's the debate about:

Maitri: nice. But of course any Tamil pullavar who was going to put "Umtee Dumtee" into a textbook would insist on it being written in Sentamizh, no?

By: Amitabh

Amitabh — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:27:41 +0000

Jai:

Very nice.

By: Jai

Jai — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:18:06 +0000

Okay, one more from me. I speak Hindi fairly well but it's not my mothertongue, so my apologies in advance for any grammatical/linguistic errors in the following:

Humpty Dumpty baitha deewar pe Soch raha tha ande ke funde Zindagi ki naseeb mein faida kya rohne Girna aur tootna, hum sab kudrat ke bande.

By: Dr. Rajkumar

Dr. Rajkumar — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:47:41 +0000

Aane bantondaane Yaavuru aane Bijapurada aane Illige yaake bantu Daari tappi bantu Haadi tappi bantu Hittalige hoyitu Heeregida noditu Uyyale kattitu Juy-Juy aaditu

By: mastervk

mastervk — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:14:43 +0000

johnny jhonny in hindi::

johnny jhonny haan papa ladoon khaaya na papa jhooth na bolo , na papa mooh to kholo , ha ha ha .