"The Tale of the Indo-European Horse Sacrifices"

Bijoy Misra bmisra at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Wed Oct 21 14:57:49 UTC 1998


Looks like there are not many Hindi speaking in the group..

We memorised as children:

        naach na jaane aangan TeDhaa

I speak Oriya.  There is no Oriya equivalent that I know.


Bijoy Misra


On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Krishna P Konduru wrote:

> Telugu equivalent :
>
> 'Aada Leka maDDilani DeppinaTlu.'
> (One who cannot dance, claim Drum/drummer is not good enough for)
>
>
> SNS wrote:
> >
> > An Equivalent Kannada Saying:
> >         kuNilaarada suuLe, nela Donku yendaLu
> >         ( a prostitute who couldnt dance, claimed that the floor was bad"
> >
> > >
> > >That is interesting.  Marathi has an exact parallel:
> > >
> > >        naatsataa yeiinaa, angaN vaakaDe
> > >
> > >                                        Madhav Deshpande
> > >
> > >On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, N. Ganesan wrote:
> > >
> > >> ------------------------------------------------------
> > >>  Old Bengali saying: "If you don't know how to dance,
> > >>                       the yard must be wonky!"
> > >>
> > >> Equivalent Old Tamil saying:
> > >>      aaDat teriyAta taaci, mEDai kONal enRaaLaam.
> > >>
> > >> What is the Bengali original?
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> N. Ganesan
> > >>
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