Re: [Ilugc] Geek in Tamil

2009-03-04 Thread இராமதாசன்
On பு, 2009-03-04 at 12:03 +0530, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > Geek is not about cleverness if am right. I thought it was about > excessive > obsession towards science / technology in general. Yes. you can have it like that too. Don't go too deep literally while finding equivalent words. --

Re: [Ilugc] Geek in Tamil

2009-03-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM, இராமதாசன் wrote: > On பு, 2009-03-04 at 11:03 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > > menporul vallavan? Restricting to software alone? Geekness is more generic to at least science / technology i guess. கொம்பன் is right. > I do not know which Cinema/ Novel gave

Re: [Ilugc] Geek in Tamil

2009-03-03 Thread இராமதாசன்
On பு, 2009-03-04 at 11:03 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > menporul vallavan? கொம்பன் is right. I do not know which Cinema/ Novel gave it a rude meaning. It has the meaning of Clevar Man Look: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=tamillex&query=கொம்பன்&matcht