Friday, January 4, 2008

Go Kannada!

Priya: Autoooo
Auto man: Yeli hogathu??
Priya: Lavel Road.
Priya (again) : Route Gotha?
Auto man : nods his head..

(Two minutes Later)

Auto Man : Meter Light barela madam...
Priya : Yen boss ? yeshtu agathe?
(Auto Man Speaks a lot in a little complicated kannda for priya to comprehend.)
Priya : 50 Rupees (Still dosent give up; dosent reveal her weakness yet! :P)
Priya : Aasshtee Boss.
(Auto Man Speak a lot again, which was comprehendable by difficult for her to reply.
Priya Decides to remain mum than to say anything. )

(10 minutes Later, Again capitalizes on her throughly cofident words known in the language)

Priya : Yeen boss? Yeshtu aaghithe?
Auto Man : 75 kodee
Priya : Illa Illa 70 Ashteee...
Priya : Change illa Boss , Nodi (Shows the 2 hundred rupee notes in her wallet )
(Auto Man By now deciphers her fake kannda skills and gives a wide smile. )
Auto Man : Parvagilla maa.. Boneey (And puts the 70 rupees on both his eyes )
Priya smiles back and gets going all happy and feeling a little more kannadiga!

6 comments:

Sankaranarayanan Viswanathan said...

pah! what a story! :)

Moonshine said...

reminds me of my days in bangalore... when all i could muster in kannada was 'gothila', lol! i'd say you're doing so much better :p

KNP said...

This is hilarious..... and every non-kannada speaking person will have a tale to tell.

Priya said...

he..he..
Thanks for your comments murali and knp!!
actually i have more kannada tales to tell, which i personally feel is real funny, lets c if i am able to post a few of those!

KNP said...

Hmmmmn... then you should post it asap. It will be really good I feel. Just on the funnier side of it.. no offences meant...

Veena Shivanna said...

Ha Ha.. ! I am speechless. Priya for some reason I thought you could speak kannada :-) Well, this is not that bad too (wink*)