Friday Night.
While Metlin has provided us with suggestions of rivetting action from across the world, we offer a glimpse into a much more sedate lifestyle involving Sarkar, whisky, an IKEA nesting ground, a high-pitched discussion on whether English was a Germanic language or not, and some great photography on my friend's mobile.
The takeaways include quality time with an always-interesting crowd, crashing on a friendly couch and a firm belief that, whatever our problems are, they are not related to teen-angst; our Jedi mind control powers are at an amazing state of development.
Will be posting those pictures as soon as my friend emerges from his bubble.
posted by The Cydonian @ 2:26 pm
3 Comments:
At 4:27 am,
Anonymous said…
Sheesh, you should hang out with my... umm... "crowd" of 2 boring to death people. Add me to the picture and you've got a perpetual coming of age storyline going.
Frustration is a lousy roommate.
What I would like to see is the timeline of the South-Indian language tree. Correct me if I'm wrong, but are Malayalam and Telugu similar because they were both derived from the same dialects of Prakrit?
At 9:45 am,
The Cydonian said…
No, Malayalam and Telugu are not considered similar. In fact, Telugu is unique in Dravidian languages in that it is the only *central* Dravidian language to be recognised by the Constitution; while Kannada, Tail, Malayalam, Tulu and a bevy of other languages are considered to be southern Dravidian languages, Telugu, Gondi, KOya and other Dandakaranya languages are considered to be "central" Dravidian languages.
So yeah, Malayalam and Telugu aren't similar at all; ust that they have an extra-ordianrily high Sanskrit influence in them, possibly because they are one of the newer additions to the greater Dravidian family.
At 1:22 am,
Metlin said…
I stand with MM on this one - Malayalam and Telugu are quite completely different. OTOH, Tamil & Malayalam are, both in terms of the script as well as the language itself.
(However, the phonetics are remarkably different, Malayalam has Hindi-ish alphabets to that end)
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