dEhiN wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Thanks!
நீ வணக்கம் இருக்கிறாய்! (Haha, that was my attempt to literally say "you are welcome" in Tamil! )
Lol!
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dEhiN wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Thanks!
நீ வணக்கம் இருக்கிறாய்! (Haha, that was my attempt to literally say "you are welcome" in Tamil! )
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:நீ வணக்கம் இருக்கிறாய்! (Haha, that was my attempt to literally say "you are welcome" in Tamil! )
Lol!
vijayjohn wrote:If it was in accusative case, then it would be வணக்கத்தை, not *வணக்கமை. But that's not how you say 'welcome' in Tamil anyway, just a greeting. 'Welcome' in Tamil is வர வேண்டும் (so something like 'you should come'). (You can use other similar phrases for this, too; for example, where the English Wikipedia says "Welcome to Wikipedia," the Tamil Wikipedia just says what would more literally translate to "come to Wikipedia!").
vijayjohn wrote:In reality, I think people might just wobble their heads and say சரி.
dEhiN wrote:சரி! Actually, speaking of சரி [sæɾi]*, I used to wonder how Tamils didn't get confused when using சரி (which means "ok" or "right/correct"), since it could also be pronounced [saɾi] and sari, the dress! Then a friend I have from Chennai told me that sari for the dress is taken from Hindi, and the Tamil word is something else.
*Ok I know /æ/ doesn't officially exist in Tamil, but my parents and aunts/uncles say certain words with an unmistakable /æ/, and [sæɾi] is one of them. Not sure if it's an English-influenced dialectal thing though I often wondered that.
Osias wrote:that scripts/alphabet. Not the languages, just the script.
Damn bladder shyness! I can't even pee at a urinal without doing math equations in my head to distract me from the feeling that some dudebro is gonna burst in on me.linguoboy wrote:[flag=]en[/flag] paruretic pee-shy
mōdgethanc wrote:Damn bladder shyness! I can't even pee at a urinal without doing math equations in my head to distract me from the feeling that some dudebro is gonna burst in on me.linguoboy wrote:[flag=]en[/flag] paruretic pee-shy
vijayjohn wrote:mōdgethanc wrote:Damn bladder shyness! I can't even pee at a urinal without doing math equations in my head to distract me from the feeling that some dudebro is gonna burst in on me.linguoboy wrote:[flag=]en[/flag] paruretic pee-shy
Now that I work at an actual office, I've gotten slightly better about this than I used to be, but even then, I usually just rely on the fact that people evacuate the bathroom pretty quickly. Taking a good five minutes or so to pee and wash and thoroughly dry my hands may be odd compared to anyone else I work with (or at least any other guys), but it's still better than just holding it in all damn day (which is what I had to do all the way to college at least).
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