Guest guest Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 GuruRatings , " aoclery " <aoclery wrote: GuruRatings , Venugopal AK <akvenugopal@> wrote: > > > > > Pete and Reverse Linguistic > Synchronicity. > I have not stopped > wondering about the coincidences of names of persons and their > actions.There was this gentleman named Shuttleworth, who paid around > 23 million dollars to have a trip in a space shuttle ! > > Mark Shuttleworth : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth > The latest is Bolt, who is so fast in > running that he can be compared to a thunder bolt !! > Usain Bolt : > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/sports/21track.html > But I was thinking about > some thing else. I come from a place called Keralam, India. > Kera = Cocanut and alam = > place. In this tiny state, cocanut palms are visible from one end to > the other. The language talked here is called Malayalam, meaning a > land between mountain and sea. > The word Malayalam is the > longest palindrome in english language. Malayalam language is a few > hundred years old. The word Pete in malayalam means some thing > spoiled. It is particularly used as a Pete Cocanut. Meaning that the > kernel is shrunk and shrivelled up and if the dehusked cocanut is > shaken one can hear the sound of the shrunken kernel moving around in > the shell. And based on this fact, the word Pete, is used to indicate > one who has some thing wrong with his head, an idiot, one who cannot > thinkl straight. > The wonder is that a language that > evolved a few hundred years back has a word exactly fitting to a > gentleman of this forum !!(Grin). > Regards > VG. > > > > See the Web & #39;s breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Buzz. http://in.buzz./ > Namaste,VG, I think you will find Malayalam is several thousand years old and is part of the Dravidian group, Telegu, Tamil, Kannada etc. Although the Keralans are a mix of the original inhabitants of India and the Dravidians.Words are strange things...speech enhances the mind and mind enhances speech so perpetuating the delusion.... --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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