May 15, 2009

Joke for the Day - IV

"Chakkani Rajamargamulundaga, Sandulo Duremi..."

Clearly, Sri Tyagaraja had never been in a Bangalore traffic jam.
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PS: Translation of the Telugu in comments.

9 replies:

Anonymous said...

Translate.

s said...

hehehehehehe. at least my telugu skills have not been totally killed then :P

aandthirtyeights said...

@varali

"Chakkani Rajamargamulundaga...", Kharaharapriya, Adi Tala.

"When wide royal paths are available, why do you take by-lanes?"

@s
Enne uttupotu, kadalaade ve...

varali said...

Sandulo as in sandu in Tamil also? Same word? Nice. And emi as in why? And undaga as in a untu and aga in Kannada? Yayy, one is getting there with Telugu then!

Telling one thing, pls - what is Chakkani?

aandthirtyeights said...

@varali
"Chakkani" can be translated to beautiful or clean. Have you heard these hackneyed Kannada speeches where they thank the Cheif Guest for speaking, "Chikkadagi, Chokkadagi" - the 'chokka' there is the 'chakka' here.

iissarayu said...

What's the difference between idli and pongal?

s said...

Eh, election post soon? No pressure or anything, just curiosity :P

Vidya Jayaraman said...

Good one, though I can't imagine Bangaloreans foregoing cheeyani gangasagaramu and going for mIgaDa pAlu etal :

aandthirtyeights said...

@iissarayu
you can impress pon-gal by giving them idlis, but you cant impress idlis by giving them pongal.

@s
Have you ever, ever seen a political post on this blog!

@Vidya
Heh. Bangaloreans are stranger than you think they are :P