On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > It's a poverty thing. > > That makes sense... > > I don't agree. We Tamizh-speakers are as poor as anyone else, we don't ask random strangers if they have eaten, nor do Telugus,or Bengalis, or Biharis, or....I have found this a very specifically Kannadiga trait. Well, it's just a form of "hello"...but when the lady who cooks in the flat opposite mine asks me, I can't help wondering if she is casting aspersions on my cooking... Deepa.
