My high tech bicycle I used in Chennai. Thanks to Vinu, who borrowed it to me.
Tamil is a language mostly spoken in Tamil Nadu in south India. Although I have been there, I just learned one single sentence. For someone, who does not speak Tamil, one thing is very easy to recognize: almost all sentences end with a long spoken and specially pronounced AaaA (an captial
A means a slightly higher voice than the lower case
a). So once I had a puncture with my cycle and I needed some air. Since I did not know, how the compressor worked, I looked a little bit helpless. Then a guy came asking me: “AirAaaaaaAAA?”, which I did not understand at first.
In that sense: Aaprom paarkalam (This one without the AaaA-sound. Do not ask me why. Maybe you can explain it).
November 29th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
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May 13th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
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May 30th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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