On Feb 25, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Chew Lin Kay wrote: > Which also apparently means that all of us are exuberant, boisterously > affectionate affectionate and relentlessly cheerful. That we routinely run > through mustard fields (with dupattas trailing behind, of course). That our > speech is peppered with assi, puttar,soni, makhna, balle balle, shava shava > and (my favourite) chak de phatte. That our men are solid and that our women > dutifully kep karva chauth. And that, given the slightest opportunity, all of > us, including aged aunts and uncles, are delighted to break into a rousing > dance number.
I don't know what any of the above means, but it does sound exotic and alluring -- and an example of the kind of thing that makes being on this list fun for me. My own ancestry is Finno-Scots-Irish. (I'm American, but my mother and all my grandparents are/were immigrants.) Finns are known, by the way, for being essentially the inverse of the personality type above. Taciturn to the Nth degree. Viz: "Did you hear about the Finnish man who loved his wife so much he almost told her?" jrs
