The Travails of Single South Indian men of conservative upbringing"

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greenhorn said:
to be honest, I've heard worse. but familiarity makes them not funny. If you're going to start laughing every time you hear such a name, you're not gonna survive long enough here :P.
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In a team of 15 we have 11 mallus. no names of that sort, but yeah....we all are having a good laugh as i type :P
 
Funniest keralite name ive heard is Quiety.

One more funny thing ive heard is some of the last names in north karnataka. It will be something like - Menasinkai (chilli), Ula gaddi (I think onion) and other veggie names.
 
vij said:
Very true!
Lot of ignorant north indians refer malayalis as madrasis...
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LOL, most North Indians and especially the ones here in Punjab/Delhi/Harayana are completely ignorant of the geography of South India. Most dont even know that there a number different states and languages in South India.

This was very surprising to me initially (Though I have got used to it now) as even the most educated North Indians I met here are ignorant of it. However even in the North, I have found people in UP s have somewhat better perception of the southern states of our country, but the Harayanvis, Delhites, Punjabis are completely hopeless in that aspect (However these people do get to speed when they have to visit south India for some reason)

For them South India means/comprises of only Chennai/Madras and the language spoken is Tamil. There is no distintion between a single city and multiple states (No distinction between even Chennai and Tamilnadu). There is no distinction between, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayali's here, All of them belong to chennai and so speak Tamil.

I am a telugu guy myself and people here often enquire when I am going to visit Chennai again or ask us not to talk in tamil when they are around. :rofl:
 
Most of these people have information passed on from older people (ie from british raj). Younger lot who have studied geography can easily distinguish between those.

Now as of language most northy people know about Tamil because it stood in way of Hindi. And for any first timer its tough to identify what language some southy dude is speaking. However it will be same for Gujrati-Rajasthani and Haryanavi - Punjabi.
 
Arya said:
Most of these people have information passed on from older people (ie from british raj). Younger lot who have studied geography can easily distinguish between those.

Now as of language most northy people know about Tamil because it stood in way of Hindi. And for any first timer its tough to identify what language some southy dude is speaking. However it will be same for Gujrati-Rajasthani and Haryanavi - Punjabi.
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I am specifically taking about the yonger generation here. i.e I am talking about colleagues/friends or other people whom I met and had a good education and not more than 30 years old.

As for identifying languages, I do agree it cannot be expected of a North Indian to identify different South Indian languages, but atleast existance of seperate languages like Malayalam/Kannada/Telugu/Tamil should be common knowledge at least among the educated classes.

Also as I said the problem is so severe only in the northen most states of the country like Harayana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Kashmir. People from UP, MP, Bengal and Sister states that I met, atleast know about the existance of these different south Indian languages. I know/met some people from HP too and Curiously they seemed to have a fair idea of the states and languages of south India.

The only conclusion I can make is that in these affilicted states, Geography of India is not concentrated upon at the high school level. :hap5:
 
@Lord, thats not a problem that exists 'only' with the North Indians.
The other day I heard one of my North Indian colleague complaning that most of the south Indians refer to the region above Andhra Pradesh as North. No matter if the States are in Center, East or West. Gujrat is North, so is Rajasthan, Maharashtra and MP
 
one guy in mumbai asked me to speak in malayalam to prove i am from tamilnadu.....i laughed at him for 5 mins and left him bewildered ...anyway it was weird seeing people stare at you like some object of mystery , when i told them i am from tamilnadu (actually you gotta tell madras...esp in villages ) and they will whisper among themselves ..bhaiyya ye toh madrasi hein , phir bhi hindi boltha hein .... and i be thinking ..its okay boys , i dont bite...

its fun ...

on the other hand dont you think its weird that southies pick up hindi very easily and do manage to speak but the northies find it very hard to pick up a southie language
 
cyrux said:
@Lord, thats not a problem that exists 'only' with the North Indians.

The other day I heard one of my North Indian colleague complaning that most of the south Indians refer to the region above Andhra Pradesh as North. No matter if the States are in Center, East or West. Gujrat is North, so is Rajasthan, Maharashtra and MP
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Well surely just because something is east or west doesnt mean it is not in the northern part of India...

Although some refer maharashtra as north which is wrong... People also refer Mumbai as "northern"....infact mumbai west as it is, is more south than north...

Although maybe comparitive to Hyd/Blore/Cochin it is north...:P
 
Lord Nemesis said:
I am specifically taking about the yonger generation here. i.e I am talking about colleagues/friends or other people whom I met and had a good education and not more than 30 years old.

As for identifying languages, I do agree it cannot be expected of a North Indian to identify different South Indian languages, but atleast existance of seperate languages like Malayalam/Kannada/Telugu/Tamil should be common knowledge at least among the educated classes.

Also as I said the problem is so severe only in the northen most states of the country like Harayana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Kashmir. People from UP, MP, Bengal and Sister states that I met, atleast know about the existance of these different south Indian languages. I know/met some people from HP too and Curiously they seemed to have a fair idea of the states and languages of south India.

The only conclusion I can make is that in these affilicted states, Geography of India is not concentrated upon at the high school level. :hap5:
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My southy friends here have no better sense of geography. I've been suspected to be a Marathi, Bengali, Oriya and even dude from Delhi...anything but a Bihari. Maybe it has to do with I can greet people in many languages. A classmate of mine thought Gujarat was next to West Bengal....beat that. It totally depends on where and what quality of education did you have irrespective of where you come from.

About ppl around UP, many have their kids studying down south, so they are usually aware of the places and languages
 
Arya said:
My southy friends here have no better sense of geography. I've been suspected to be a Marathi, Bengali, Oriya and even dude from Delhi...anything but a Bihari. Maybe it has to do with I can greet people in many languages. A classmate of mine thought Gujarat was next to West Bengal....beat that. It totally depends on where and what quality of education did you have irrespective of where you come from.

About ppl around UP, many have their kids studying down south, so they are usually aware of the places and languages
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The question is not about guessing a persons origin...its about the very knowledge that there are different states with different languages in the south. Being ignorant about that is disapointing...
 
on the other hand dont you think its weird that southies pick up hindi very easily and do manage to speak but the northies find it very hard to pick up a southie language
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It depends on the need and friends. I picked up Kannada in college. But most of the dudes were from north karnataka and they already spoke hindi quite well. So there was no need for me to learn. hindi/english worked just fine. I manage to speak kannada when there is a need.

People who are in business and stuff....they ofcourse learn kannada. Mallus are exception, they can pickup any language in 10 days.
 
vij said:
The question is not about guessing a persons origin...its about the very knowledge that there are different states with different languages in the south. Being ignorant about that is disapointing...
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Almost all states in north have different languages too. How many people know that? As one of my teacher(mind you she was M. Tech) said:

My God!!! So many students from Bihar. I think I'll have to learn Bihari.
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p.s. - For those who don't know there is no such language as Bihari
 
Arya said:
Almost all states in north have different languages too. How many people know that? As one of my teacher(mind you she was M. Tech) said:

p.s. - For those who don't know there is no such language as Bihari
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Does Bhojpuri count, chhore?
 
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