Please tell me if you people also find the tone of this food review highly patronizing and annoying or it’s just me being excessively grumpy.
Writer Memsahib gives us a list of tongue-twister items. And what do you find there but nandu kuzhumbu! My tongue is not just twisted pronouncing it – it’s tied. And whaja know? Madam can barely pronounce urlakizhangu. Cho chweet!
Can you guys recall fancy Tamil words? Our up-and-coming journo can. To quote her: “What’s that fancy Tamil word they used to describe it? Yeah, kili josiyam!”
*gasp* Kili josiyam! *gasp*
Tell me, Ms. Paitandy, what’s so fancy about a parrot, astrology or a combination of the two? Don’t they do it in Mars, where from you hail?
With a lot of familial curiosity rubbed in, I did my bit of Orkut-based digging out. It turns out that this Mumbaikar Hindu journo is no stranger to Chennai. Her profile suggests that she must’ve spent at least 5-6 years here. So why this false tone of wonderment at things very common in the city?
Considering more than 95% of The Hindu’s readership is based in TN, the tone appears silly if not irritating.
And once senior staffers at the Mount Road Mahavishnu reluctantly leave the canteen, don’t they sift through articles written by the newbies?
Nettiyadi!
Must be one of those Stella maris cases – “I dunno tameeel ya – I watch only englees films” kinds
Pinnettinga!
ThanksungO!
I couldn’t even complete reading that article. It may not be out of place in an inflight magazine of some international airlines but the Madras edition of The Hindu!!! Enna kodumai idhu.
Exactly my point too!
i know she cannot be naturally blonde, so she def must have dyed her hair in the very least.
but if u think abt it urulaikizhangu can actually be quite a tongue twister if you don’t know how to pronounce the zh.
the ‘lungi’ part is a bit irritating though. and yeah, the hindu putting such reviewers on chennai metro plus is a fucking crime. even if they had done this in delhi, it would have been excusable.
at blogeswari: possible, but highly unlikely. amean, the kind u r referring to are those from poorer backgrounds trying to forget their mother tongue. not everyone who is stupid needs to speak english in an awkward manner.
A Sardarni neighbour of mine gets around urulaikizhangu by calling it ‘ulkyng’
U are not alone at all!! I could not even complete the first para, let alone read it fully.
may be the editing team had gone out for a smoke and this babe used that opporunity to send it off
Bah! That editorial team requires no such excuses.
All Peter and Mary Goshti!
And Peter-Mary is actually getting paid to write this tripe
Agree with you about the review – appalling! That said… oh HOW I wish I was in Madras for that foodie festival
I’m very much here. And can’t imagine paying 300 bucks for kuzhumbu and koottu
Thaangale. Esp the kili josiyam part
That bit riled me the most.
Inbavalli ko gussa kyon aata hai?!!
I wonder about the writer every time I read a spa review in the Metro section. She seems to review a lot of spas, don’t you think? Not that I can afford a spa visit, but I thought one was supposed to space visits to the spa by a few weeks for health reasons. How many hot rock, fruit pack, milk and honey treatments can your body take in a week?
And vazhaipazham is a tongue twister if you’re not used to it. I ask non-Tamilian friends to repeat it and they quickly move on to another topic.
Inbavalli is gussa-fying because: a) This writer sounds condescending. b) Her piece was not a blog post – something personal – but an article in the city-based supplement of a highly local newspaper. The kili josiyam really got under my skin. c) When I was as junior a journo as her, I never got away with this kind of fluff. Not that I even tried.
If I know feature writers, this one probably visits the spas, collects the brochures, lotions and juices and writes.
Your first time here, Terri? Welcome!
Not my first time here, Inba. I linger often.
agree agree
ask that female to say ezhai kizhavan vaazhaipazha tholil vazhukki vizhndhan
bet she wont even try all psuedos
LOL… the self description as a ‘thorough city-bred’ sounds rather like a horse.. and a bad review to boot.