Comments on: Your nepotism is my family values

By: levorotatory

levorotatory — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:59:46 +0000

Port, Is that "gauche" as in awkward, or as in "of or from the left"?

Come now, Rob, are you trying to suggest that Portmanteau really is that "sinister"?

I may be ambivalent, but not ambidextrous. Due to a congenital deficit in dexterity* , I am guilty of being sinister as well as socio-politically gauche.

It is intriguing that, although this word derives from the Latin dexter, meaning â€˜on the rightâ€™, its definition in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary lists â€˜right-handednessâ€™ as only the fourth meaning, and describes that usage as â€˜rare'

By: rob

rob — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:26:20 +0000

Nice one, Shaad–touche!

By: Shaad

Shaad — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:21:22 +0000

Re 56:

Port, Is that “gauche” as in awkward, or as in “of or from the left”?

Come now, Rob, are you trying to suggest that Portmanteau really is that “sinister”?

By: rob

rob — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:09:35 +0000

Port, Is that “gauche” as in awkward, or as in “of or from the left”?

By: portmanteau

portmanteau — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:28:24 +0000

53 Ã‚Â· rob said

Yennappa Naataan, how can you dismiss the maddhippu of a theiveehamane paddhaippu?

For all your Tamil (I think) speaking, at least the DAR set like to hang out with you. On the other hand, gauche ol' me is probably not welcome at their dinner parties.

By: louiecypher

louiecypher — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:59:57 +0000

No excuse for nepotism, but in the absence of functioning contract law I can see why small business men will only work with people they know

By: rob

rob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:14:25 +0000

Yennappa Naataan, how can you dismiss the maddhippu of a theiveehamane paddhaippu? (For those of you who don’t speak the original human language, C’mon Naatan, how can you belittle the sacredness of a divine creation?”

By: Naattaan

Naattaan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:39:20 +0000

Yennappa robbu, how much more exotic could a yannai like Dumbo or Babar be?:)

By: rob

rob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:16:24 +0000

unlike the kids of the professional class whose upbringing has made them trumpet

(emphasis added)

Enough with the elephant-based exotification!!

By: Naattaan

Naattaan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:46:40 +0000

The business class in India have typically been even more tightly knit through extended familial connections and I see this as a strong point among the Gujarathi motel owners who have translated this strength into their dominance in the motel sector in the US. Given the weakness of familial connections engendered by American living among desis, I wonder how the second generation of the Gujarathi motel owners are holding up. I am betting that the first generation Gujarathi motel owners have been more successful in imbuing their American born kids with a sense of community feeling among their extended families and clans, unlike the kids of the professional class whose upbringing has made them trumpet that they hardly knew any other desis growing up, let alone extended family.