April 1, 2009
How Does One Say Haiku in Tamil?
I recently found out a bit more about one of my favorite music videos. I even found a version of it with the Tamil lyrics translated. The answer to the title's question is within, as is the answer to "What do they call eyebrows?"
Ah talk of eyebrows takes me back to teaching English at elementary schools. But hey, were getting off track when I had a natural segway to show the video that I originally pondered about this stuff in:
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Lol! Sharp observation! The trend in recent days seems to hire non-native singers to sing tamil songs for general amusement, the result is pretty terrible most of the times. Haikuvey Haikuvey is actually Hai Poovey Hai Poovey, which translates to hello flower; Eyebrows are called Puruvam but tamil is one such language where english words are quite naturally mixed and matched in a conversation. Good blog, keep up the good work.
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