Friday, October 20, 2006

Ilavasam

I thought of translating the below lines which were scribbled outside a use and pay toilet in salem to english, but finally resorted to keep it simple in tamil , as the lines wud lose its sting in the hands of an inept translator in me..

"Ilavasa color tv..
Ilavasa nilam..
Ilavasa 2 Kilo arisi..
Kattana Kalipparai !! ??"

I remembered the famous lines by a tamil poet instantly. HE cries in frustration at the plight of the ppl in his country as--
" Indha naadum, naatu makkalum naaasamai pogattum"

Tamizha Vilithelu...Illaiyel Mithikkapaduvai!!!

5 Comments:

Blogger Golden Plover said...

I now u cant pronounce 'zha' in Tamizh... but atleast u can type it correctly!!!

thats "vizhithezhu"... not 'vilithelu'.

Please change it.

tamizhai kolai seiyathey!!!

1:29 AM  
Blogger Golden Plover said...

and its "kazhiparai"

1:30 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

@ murali...
KAKAKA PO!!!

1:16 AM  
Blogger sheikhee said...

machi...if i didnt know that its "zha" in tamizh i wudnt have spelled it right as Tamizha in first instance....

The least u can find in my blog is grammatical typos..:D so adjust maadi!!

n btw that lines were nott from poet...read that it was from PERIYAR...dono how many ppl from so called TAMIL NADU know him anyways..

11:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sheikh, maams when using English to type tami itself, the " " (read zh or l) is gone.

1:50 PM  

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