^ yes, my nani makes that… it’s a bitter-sweet rasam isn’t it… very delish!
stircrasy, you’re tam? gosh… can i just you for the tough time chennai rick wallahs gave me on my last visit?
i feel somewhat mollified now!
since we are generalizing and stereotyping :halo: can i just say i have yet to meet a “nice” tam.. no, seriously i’d love to meet a nice tam so i can alter my opinion, but i’ve only met the arrogant ones so far.
absolutely love tam food though.. esp chettinad style
Bangloreans are very nice and friendly except to tamilians and north indians ( problem is this people come to bangalore and ask the local to speak hindi and says its national language) :CareBear:
have u heard the joke abt the sardar who went to madras and sat in a rickshaw? the rickshaw wallah asked him: "Tamil terima?"
Sardar got pissed off and replied, "Hindi tera baap"
Tommorow is the Bengali,Assamese,Tamil and the Punjabi new year!!!
Bong and Assamese Muslims too celebrate their respective new years.
do the Muslim Punjabis too celebrate the Punjabi New Year?? i know theres a Basant fest in Lahore, but is it just a festival for Spring, or for the new year?
first know the average prices, when you take a ricksaw (means auto ricksaw unlike in delhi and other northern cities there are no cycle ricksaw's in bangalore/hyderabad/mumbai) don't go on meter, tell the guy i want to go this place and i will pay this much
Bangloreans are very nice and friendly except to tamilians and north indians ( problem is this people come to bangalore and ask the local to speak hindi and says its national language) :CareBear:
Hmmmm. i don't think Bangaloreans have any problem with North- Indians. But some of them do hate tamils.
you haven’t met any nice tams because there aren’t any. we’re all so superior that what you think is arrogant is actually us being humble…
just kidding
In general, people from Coimbatore, Tirunelveli and Arcot districts are very very nice broad minded people
Chennai cannot be characterized, being a mix of all
Except Tanjore district all others I’d say are per national niceness average
Now the Tanjore district people - man we are something! but with good reason. We don’t know how to communicate or small talk or sugar coat. Also very highly intellectualized. So what happens is everyone else goes away with the impression of arrogant and tricky
there is one more joke like that
one telugu guy went to chennai and asked for a room in a hotel the hotel guy replied irruku ( irruku in telugu means congested, and tamil means available) then the telugu guy said give double room then again the tamil guy says irruku:)
these are pronounced exactly the way they are written right? Kannada is so different from Hindi, I don't even understand one word. In that "yeng idiya" phrase, the yeng is pronounced the same way as that "yin yang" thing in chinese right?
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no. they are pronouced i a completely different way. For ex. "yeng idiya"(heng idiya- don't give that fees to SOA) is written as "hege iddeeya"
huh? you northies shouldn't try Tamil and murder it this way!
i'm not a northie... am a kannadiga brought up in maharashtra and i learnt that from my tam friend's dad... he'd say that in such a comical exaggerated way, it made us all crack up.
indopak, hege idiya is proper kannada for how are u. heng or yeng idiya is slang.. and i've mostly heard men saying that..
actually, if u are just saying “hege” (how?) then you’d pronounce it “hay-gay”
but if you’re saying “hege iddiya” (how are you) then because the first word ends with a vowel and the seconds starts with a vowel, there’s a liaison between them, and you’d say “haig iddi-ya”. does that make sense?
actually, if u are just saying "hege" (how?) then you'd pronounce it "hay-gay"
but if you're saying "hege iddiya" (how are you) then because the first word ends with a vowel and the seconds starts with a vowel, there's a liaison between them, and you'd say "haig iddi-ya". does that make sense?
yea that's all I wanted to know, how exactly it was pronounced! i was getting confused with the slang and the proper way of saying it. I think i'll stick with this version, thanks you're awesome:)
you for the tough time chennai rick wallahs gave me on my last visit? 
i’d love to meet a nice tam so i can alter my opinion, but i’ve only met the arrogant ones so far.
