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TVK Sir

Try this :

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".

No this is not a bad word, or a cruel joke on you if you are trying to pronounce it .
It really is the name of a Railway Station in Wales ! .

So, the Brits couldn't have been averse to long tongue-twister names.


Yay Yem

PS: Our own " Ventakanarasimharajuvaripeta " - longest station name on the Indian Railways stands
no chance . [ Arkonam-Renigunta section on the Chennai - Tirupati route ]
 
Actually the word SMS(short message/messaging service) is Indian!

Want to know how?

In Sanskrit samAsaH means shortening words into compounds..making it into short messages.

समासः sa mA saH..the words are SMS and the meaning is the same ..Short Messaging Service.

:thumb:...:clap2:
 
Actually the word SMS(short message/messaging service) is Indian!

Want to know how?

In Sanskrit samAsaH means shortening words into compounds..making it into short messages.

समासः sa mA saH..the words are SMS and the meaning is the same ..Short Messaging Service.

Just to add..this SamAsah =SMS is not "coined" by me.

I had actually read this long back in 2007 when I was doing Sanskrit lessons downloaded from Chitrapur Math website.
 
Just to add..this SamAsah =SMS is not "coined" by me.

I had actually read this long back in 2007 when I was doing Sanskrit lessons downloaded from Chitrapur Math website.

I know the word meaning 'to put it in nut shell' (am I correct?)
but did not get the brainwave to connect it with the English SMS!!!
 
Dear Renu,

Isn't it better than being maamified and ammaamified??? :rolleyes:

Dear VR ji,

I rather be Mummified instead of being Maamified/Ammafied/Akkafied!

You know out here I love the Malay sales girls..they still call me Miss when I go to buy stuff from their stores..but an Indian girl sales girl out here will call any women young or old Aunty!LOL

Malays girls are smart girls..they know sales tactics but Indians here still have a long way to go.

But shopping in India is fine cos they call all females Madam..so age is not dragged into the picture..no aunty or akka or maami.
 
....... But shopping in India is fine cos they call all females Madam..so age is not dragged into the picture........
Dear Renu,

When we went for shopping in Pondicherry (now Pudhucherry), a stylish lady clad in modern dress, with thick red lipstick

smeared onto her lips, stepped into the same sweet shop. We thought she was an ultra modern ma'am till she ordered,
'arak kilO lattu; arak kilO jilEpi'!! :faint:

BTW, why does the name of the city end as 'cherry' and not 'chery'? :confused:
 
Dear Renu,

When we went for shopping in Pondicherry (now Pudhucherry), a stylish lady clad in modern dress, with thick red lipstick

smeared onto her lips, stepped into the same sweet shop. We thought she was an ultra modern ma'am till she ordered,
'arak kilO lattu; arak kilO jilEpi'!! :faint:

BTW, why does the name of the city end as 'cherry' and not 'chery'? :confused:

Obvious my dear!
What else will you call a city where
the ChEri vaasis put on cherry red lipstick??? :rolleyes:
 
Dear Tmt VR

Yes I have read about them but they are few and far apart - from Siberia to South America.
In Egypt she'll have a lot of companionship.

The definition of 'mummification' - in Dr Renu's dictionary : Metamorphosis of the female gender of the human race
from woman to a progeny bearing status " !
Reaction from the male gender being " guilt / regret / stress ".

Sheikah - As a matter of respect to the lady, yes. That's like addressing a lady with a title
such as Behanji / Mousi / Akka / Amma etc ., instead of calling her by her first name.

Ah! A Sheikah's sister automatically acquires the title of Sheikah too

Yay Yem
 
Tmt VR

It's simple - only the Husband, Father, Mother, Siblings and a very close circle of friends and relatives
call a lady by her first name. Every body else is expected to maintain the decorum. Cross limits and
there could be big trouble.

But that's pretty easy to follow - I've addressed just about any/every lady 'Didi '/ 'Behanji' / 'Akka' /'Amma -
depending on which part of India I'm in. In Gujarat, everybody is a Bhai or Behan - in daily usage and pretty
much the same in Mumbai too.

Yay Yem
 
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