Friday, August 7, 2009

Alpam

Alpam* is as alpam does.


*cheap and silly; stupid and inane.

Update: I just realized that bloggers explain long absences and/or apologize for them. I did not know this was a kind of etiquette. Forgive me, I'm new. My reason? Because mobility means social life.

23 comments:

Liberal said...

how verbose!

buddy said...

pithy prose?

Gradwolf said...

enna achu?!

Idling in Top Gear said...

So you're saying that posting an entry with just one line (alpam's definition doens't count as a line) is an alpam thing to do? :)

Anonymous said...

Ironically, 'Alpam' in tamil & sanskrit means a 'Small qty' ;) .

Anonymous said...

:D recent fascination with this word? used twice in two days! the second usage led me here :)

Anjana R said...

@Liberal and buddy
I suppose... :D

@Gradwolf
onnum illiye. :)

@Idling
what an alpam thing to say! :)

@wits
It's actually a Tamil word borrowed from Sanskrit and whose meaning changed while getting converted to Madras-speak. Incidentally another word whose meaning changed in colloquial parlance is "kasmalam." Care to shed some light on the origin of that one too? :)

@Sriram
yenna

@karthrags
Recent? More like long-term fascination :D

Mambalam Mani said...

Aha! Kavidha, kavidha. Enga inoru dhadava padi..

Kaushik said...

:O
I mean, was it really that bad?
Wow!

Kaushik said...

Aaha...just noticed the dates, ho hum. :D

dharmabum said...

an 'alpa' post, perhaps? :P

Anjana R said...

@Mambalam
padicha pochu :)

@Kaushik
Dont let the dates fool you. It really was that bad.

@dharmabum
Perhaps. :)

Kaushik said...

Aah well, obviously embarrassed. :D
Not sure whether to react and if so, how.
Let's just say that writings on a public forum will possibly be interpreted by different people in different ways and the writer cannot cry foul. :)
That said, if it was really alpam, then *sniff sniff* the writer will have to wake up to reality. :D

aandthirtyeights said...

Mobile! Arrey!

Congrats!

Karthik Shekhar said...

Maybe it's time to return? :)

Anjana R said...

@kaushik
why crying?...yennadidu chinna pilla thanama :D

@aand
thank you! :)

@karthik
just maybe :)

Vibushan L Narayan said...

so, finally you're mobile!?

Vibushan L Narayan said...

seriously, whats the post supposed to mean :D :D

Perception said...

:)

Anjana R said...

@Vibushan
well, exactly what it says :D

@Perception
Right back atcha :)

Kaushik said...

Idhellam unakke konjam over'a theriyale? Evano oru kena paya edho oru chinna-pulla thanamaana vishayatha avanoda blog'la ezhudha...adha paathu nee thuppi rendu lines'a blog-post'nu unnoda blog'la ezhudha...adha paathu iravadhu peru comment adikka, adhuvum post panni almost 1 month'kku apram...adha paathu naan innooru comment ezhudha...
Shabbaa...Midiyala...:D

G said...

ahaha for a second I read alpam as aplam. It's prolly the upcoming onam spirit :]

Anjana R said...

@Kaushik
adangify :D

@G
Happy onam!