Comments on: Ninde Achan Aara, Nel? http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: vineeth michael http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-112361 vineeth michael Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:33:16 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-112361 <p>*That was absolutely spectacular shot from the Young man from Kerala. *He made the malayalees proud! Thanks for instructions of Allan Donald, which made sree to gain confidence in bowling.Thereby showing aggression in batting.</p> *That was absolutely spectacular shot from the Young man from Kerala. *He made the malayalees proud! Thanks for instructions of Allan Donald, which made sree to gain confidence in bowling.Thereby showing aggression in batting.

]]> By: A N N A http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-108756 A N N A Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:40:35 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108756 <blockquote>LOL you actually joined a Sreesanth fan club :) I thought that was a one-off post at SM. I'm just a lurker who drifted here from Sandeep's scrapbook. Merry Christmas.</blockquote> <p>From my <a href="http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?uid=2084360110217259629">Orkut Scrapbook</a>. :) If it's "one-off", then my cricket tutors will be very irritated with me, I'm sure. ;)</p> LOL you actually joined a Sreesanth fan club :) I thought that was a one-off post at SM. I’m just a lurker who drifted here from Sandeep’s scrapbook. Merry Christmas.

From my Orkut Scrapbook. :) If it’s “one-off”, then my cricket tutors will be very irritated with me, I’m sure. ;)

]]> By: Kurma http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-108737 Kurma Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:42:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108737 <p>desishiksa, Maybe Sortova is a caste (boo!), not a dynasty ;-D</p> <blockquote>I'd say that you, like many people, are many things. Sort of one, sort of another.</blockquote> <p>Sounds good! Most people on SM sure are <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/navratan-korma/detail.aspx">a bit like this</a> :-). Many ingredients - Add, change or delete some, depending on taste. Merry Christmas to you all.</p> desishiksa, Maybe Sortova is a caste (boo!), not a dynasty ;-D

I’d say that you, like many people, are many things. Sort of one, sort of another.

Sounds good! Most people on SM sure are a bit like this :-) . Many ingredients – Add, change or delete some, depending on taste. Merry Christmas to you all.

]]> By: tash http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-108695 tash Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:16:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108695 <blockquote>The "-eda" ending of the first word adds some emphasis, kind of like the implied "biyotch" in the English version of the question</blockquote> <p>Vishy, that was a classic integration of 'biyotch' into linguistics...my favourite ghetto fabulous word casts its tangled net far and wide...:)</p> <p>Since it's the 25th here already, Merry Christmas everyone on SM! :) Well to the addicts who still check it on days like this....xox Hope you were good this year and duly rewarded... ;)</p> The “-eda” ending of the first word adds some emphasis, kind of like the implied “biyotch” in the English version of the question

Vishy, that was a classic integration of ‘biyotch’ into linguistics…my favourite ghetto fabulous word casts its tangled net far and wide…:)

Since it’s the 25th here already, Merry Christmas everyone on SM! :) Well to the addicts who still check it on days like this….xox Hope you were good this year and duly rewarded… ;)

]]> By: RC http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-108694 RC Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:00:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108694 <blockquote>Harsha Bhogle is an excellent commentator. He does not just know the game but is very insightful. Listen to his commentary if ever you get a chance.</blockquote> <p>Siddhu was good, but now he will be doing time for the manslaughter charge that he just got convicted of.</p> Harsha Bhogle is an excellent commentator. He does not just know the game but is very insightful. Listen to his commentary if ever you get a chance.

Siddhu was good, but now he will be doing time for the manslaughter charge that he just got convicted of.

]]> By: desishiksa http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-108692 desishiksa Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:31:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108692 <blockquote>So yeah... my point is, ABDs and 1.5 gens don't just need help with their vocab, they also need help gauging the appropriateness of expressions.</blockquote> <p>I beg to differ...I'm 1.5 gen (moved here when I was 16, sound American) and I can speak appropriately idiomatic Hyderabadi Hindi like a native (which I was). Your point is well taken, i.e. there are nuances of language that you just can't learn from a book, but my cousins speak perfectly appropriate Telugu (much better than mine) and were born here...it just depends on who you speak to and how you learned the language, i.e., did you take Hindi classes in college or did your parents speak it to you growing up. There are people who live in India and don't get the nuances of the local language because they speak predominantly English so I don't think it's just an ABD or 1.5 gen thing. It may or may not happen, as you said, but that's true of 1st generation people too.</p> So yeah… my point is, ABDs and 1.5 gens don’t just need help with their vocab, they also need help gauging the appropriateness of expressions.

I beg to differ…I’m 1.5 gen (moved here when I was 16, sound American) and I can speak appropriately idiomatic Hyderabadi Hindi like a native (which I was). Your point is well taken, i.e. there are nuances of language that you just can’t learn from a book, but my cousins speak perfectly appropriate Telugu (much better than mine) and were born here…it just depends on who you speak to and how you learned the language, i.e., did you take Hindi classes in college or did your parents speak it to you growing up. There are people who live in India and don’t get the nuances of the local language because they speak predominantly English so I don’t think it’s just an ABD or 1.5 gen thing. It may or may not happen, as you said, but that’s true of 1st generation people too.

]]> By: RC http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-108691 RC Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:27:51 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108691 <blockquote>Harsha Bhogle is an excellent commentator. He does not just know the game but is very insightful. Listen to his commentary if ever you get a chance.</blockquote> <p>Well he sounds snobbish to me. Where is the Indian Madden ???</p> Harsha Bhogle is an excellent commentator. He does not just know the game but is very insightful. Listen to his commentary if ever you get a chance.

Well he sounds snobbish to me. Where is the Indian Madden ???

]]> By: Shruti http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-5/#comment-108690 Shruti Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:58:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108690 <p>Nope. I'm from Patna; I speak Magdhi Hindi. But I only speak mainstream Hindi with non-Biharis (people tend to look down on you otherwise). If I feel really insecure about my Hindi, I use Urdu diction. I know, it's sad :)</p> Nope. I’m from Patna; I speak Magdhi Hindi. But I only speak mainstream Hindi with non-Biharis (people tend to look down on you otherwise). If I feel really insecure about my Hindi, I use Urdu diction. I know, it’s sad :)

]]> By: Amitabh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-4/#comment-108687 Amitabh Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:52:02 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108687 <p>Shruti, did you ever answer my question about whether you know Bhojpuri or not? Sorry if I missed it.</p> Shruti, did you ever answer my question about whether you know Bhojpuri or not? Sorry if I missed it.

]]> By: Shruti http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/20/whos_your_daddy_2/comment-page-4/#comment-108684 Shruti Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:42:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4042#comment-108684 <blockquote>but some older folks will be really upset if a youngster says 'tera' or 'tu' to them. </blockquote> <p>I didn't intend for either of them to be formal because I wanted to use two sentences that were, literally, the same. "Bataye aap..." would have been too obviously different. "Batao, tum..." and "Bol, tera..." are both informal, but if you do happen make the mistake of addressing someone older in the informal, it would still be waaaaay worse to ask them "Bol, tera baab kwon?". Yikes!! But yeah, knowing when to use the formal and the informal is tricky. I still don't know which one to use when I'm speaking Spanish, but because I actually grew up in a traditionally patriarchal Bihari family, I have the Hindi formal/informal thing on lock-down.</p> <p>...but we're digressing far to much here. Anna and everyone else that celebrates it, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas eve, and a very merry Christmas day! :)</p> <p>(Ok, gotta go drive home now)</p> but some older folks will be really upset if a youngster says ‘tera’ or ‘tu’ to them.

I didn’t intend for either of them to be formal because I wanted to use two sentences that were, literally, the same. “Bataye aap…” would have been too obviously different. “Batao, tum…” and “Bol, tera…” are both informal, but if you do happen make the mistake of addressing someone older in the informal, it would still be waaaaay worse to ask them “Bol, tera baab kwon?”. Yikes!! But yeah, knowing when to use the formal and the informal is tricky. I still don’t know which one to use when I’m speaking Spanish, but because I actually grew up in a traditionally patriarchal Bihari family, I have the Hindi formal/informal thing on lock-down.

…but we’re digressing far to much here. Anna and everyone else that celebrates it, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas eve, and a very merry Christmas day! :)

(Ok, gotta go drive home now)

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