Profundity

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo

So, next time something doesn't make sense here, dear reader, you have only yourself to blame.

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  1. Shakthiprabha (Prabha Sridhar) April 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM

    For no logical reason I remember

    "துப்பார்க்குத் துப்பாய துப்பாக்கித் துப்பார்க்குத் துப்பாய தூஉம் மழை"

    But then that gets the crown for being simpler :(

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  2. AnonymousApril 9, 2009 at 6:13 PM

    "mái mài mâi mâi mãi?"

    This is a grammatically correct sentence in the Thai language, and it translates to, "New wood doesn't burn, does it?"

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  3. dagaltiApril 9, 2009 at 7:11 PM

    SP, that's sure an honorable mention. Though in comparison VaLLuvar's is a quaint little tongue twister submitting to the suffix tweak demands any language place on its words. Buffalo remain un-buffaloed.

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  4. dagaltiApril 9, 2009 at 7:20 PM

    //"mái mài mâi mâi mãi?//
    Ha !
    Quite Western of us to ignore the accents and circumflexes. Imagine writing them in any Indian script makes it a quaint 'sounds like'.

    Also shows that one learns different things about Thai culture when one tours under parental supervision.

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  5. rajApril 10, 2009 at 11:28 AM

    ha! idhellam jujoobee - enga Advanced Algebra prof in Chennai, she sets teh gold standard - infact, if prodded, this was the episode I was threatening to post as 'interesting anecdote' from college life that you asked :-) - my primary entertainment in college used to be attending her class and catching any pearls dropped by her in terms of faux-paus. Here's a sentence, where the word 'know' stands for any phoentic variation, (i.e) the sentence makes perfect sense if I replace appropriate knows by appropriate 'no's with appropriate punctuation. Idhai kandupidingada paarkalam!

    "I know you know know know know know"
    (This was an effort to encourage an embarassed myself to answer a question she suddenly posed in the class - myself being her pet student who somehow had incited belief in her that I could solve Fermat's last theorem - and here I was blinking like Pandiarajan to a question on mundane basics. So thats the clue you get. )

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  6. dagaltiApril 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM

    Possibility1: I know you know, no "no no"
    i.e. I know (that) you know, (so) no "no no" (business)

    Possibility2: I know you know, no "no know"
    i.e. I know (that) you know, (so) no "no know" (I don't know business)

    Both miss a the last "no". Which I guess will the very Indian question tag "no ?". Used even perplexingly in combinations like "You agee with me, right ?" indianized to "Yes, no ?"

    Possibility 3
    I know.
    You know, no ? (you know, don't you)
    no "no no/know" (none of this I don't know business)

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  7. UnknownApril 13, 2009 at 2:05 AM

    I know this comes really late. But I've meaning to say for sometime that this is a really nice blog! :)

    And I really enjoyed reading the link in this post.

    P.S: Even my best friend who is far more capable than me when it comes to critiquing and appreciating the written word likes this blog. And I think she's mentioned it too.

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  8. hendyApril 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    hmmmmmmm buffalo buffalo buffalo........ no no no..... but yes yes yes.......

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  9. dagaltiApril 14, 2009 at 8:28 AM

    Rarely does one get to say both thanks and welcome in the same sentence.
    Thanks and Welcome Padma :-)

    Welcome hendy, but I must say the comment missed my head by a clear couple of feet.

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