For those who do not know, decades of ethnic strife punctuated by a bloody civil war left relations between Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Sinhalese in tatters. Somehow cricket seems to find a way to heal things a tiny bit. #cricket #ipl #csk #tamil #sinhalese https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/why-matheesha-pathirana-in-csk-yellow-makes-for-a-good-omen-1430335
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Being multi-lingual sometimes leads to weird situations 😛
In Tamil movies they sometimes pronounce "graphics" in a way that sounds like "gira-piss" and in Sinhalese, "gira" is "parrot" (or rather, parrot-related) and "piss" would of course be English — so parrot pee?
Do parrots even pee? 😀
#Tamil #Sinhalese #Language #Funny #MultiLingualWeirdness
In Tamil movies they sometimes pronounce "graphics" in a way that sounds like "gira-piss" and in Sinhalese, "gira" is "parrot" (or rather, parrot-related) and "piss" would of course be English — so parrot pee?
Do parrots even pee? 😀
#Tamil #Sinhalese #Language #Funny #MultiLingualWeirdness
And here's the little guy who came home with me, hopefully casting out any demons of seasonal colds I'm due from landing in -5 degrees London after leaving my jumper in Colombo airport.
#folkhorror #folkhorrormapgie #srilanka #srilankanfestival #festival #sinhalese #sinhalesefolklore #tamilfolklore #raksha #mask #folkmask #kolam #sanni #kandy #galle #negombo #colombo #ella
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