Funny things in languages

[bingleguy]

I had 'halluppodi' advertisement in Bangalore radio and interpreted as 'palluppodi'

அது சரி, பல்லுக்கு ஹல்லு, பொடிக்கு ஏன் ஹொடி இல்ல?

hesarukku pesarunnu sonna ... namma makkalukku pressure vandhidum sir

adaan :P

[bingleguy]

"thooral ninnu pochu" Kerala la release panni padam eduthavanga patta paadu .....

[app_engine]

It's well-known to anyone who knows Thamizh that there are relatively less # of consonants and thus the limitation in bringing out the "exact" pronunciation of foreign language words.

Actually, to accommodate north-Indian languages, Thamizh had to add the extras such as ஸ், ஷ், ஜ், ஹ் (வடமொழி எழுத்துகள்). That's fine.

However, why should it handle native consonants in two different ways? That's the most funny part in Thamizh (unfunny to anyone who tries to learn the language).

e.g. Why கல் is pronounced as "kal" and பகல் is pronounced as either "pagal" or "pahal"? Those who learn Thamizh tend to pronounce this as pa-kal which sounds rough

[Wibha]

Hogo in Kannada, Po in Thamizh meaning GO

what say ?????

I had so much issues. I always ended up mixing tamil and kannada words.
I used to say pogo in tamil for po....

In dance class for
for utkolthini (tie ) I used to say katkolthini (with a mix of tamil and kannada)

[bingleguy]

Hogo in Kannada, Po in Thamizh meaning GO

what say ?????

I had so much issues. I always ended up mixing tamil and kannada words.
I used to say pogo in tamil for po....

In dance class for
for utkolthini (tie ) I used to say katkolthini (with a mix of tamil and kannada)

idu enna pa .... Mysore Iyengars solluvAngo paaru amazing

vandhkondu poikondu irukaanga

[bingleguy]

Actually, to accommodate north-Indian languages, Thamizh had to add the extras such as ஸ், ஷ், ஜ், ஹ் (வடமொழி எழுத்துகள்). That's fine.

irundhalum pala peru use panna maatengraanga

However, why should it handle native consonants in two different ways? That's the most funny part in Thamizh (unfunny to anyone who tries to learn the language).

e.g. Why கல் is pronounced as "kal" and பகல் is pronounced as either "pagal" or "pahal"? Those who learn Thamizh tend to pronounce this as pa-kal which sounds rough

[rajraj]

Actually, to accommodate north-Indian languages, Thamizh had to add the extras such as ஸ், ஷ், ஜ், ஹ் (வடமொழி எழுத்துகள்). That's fine.

irundhalum pala peru use panna maatengraanga

Those are known as grantha script - sa, ja,sha, ksha and ha.
When there were more sanskrit words in Tamil they used all those letters. If you go back to the literature of 19th and early 20th centuries you will come across a lot words using those letters.

[rajraj]

app_engine: You left out French in your survey.
I found that to be the most difficult language to learn.

[app_engine]

The ka v/s ha/ga confusion exists in Malayalam as well, wherever it uses words borrowed from Thamizh, the easy example being മകന്* (மகன்). Though strictly it should be read as ma-ka-n, it's softened, adding to the fun.

There was this Bengali trainee engineer who was at Palakkad when ராஜாவின்டெ மகன் got released. He used to say 'rAjAvinte makkan'

[app_engine]

app_engine: You left out French in your survey.
I found that to be the most difficult language to learn.

It was / is there

I thought there won't be many hubbers who know the language and hence bundled it with other euro languages in the option.