Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Bhai.. machan.. Two strong words..

I notice in the last few posts, I have been doing nothing, but, crib. This post hopefully reverses that.

I find that men folk bond very easily. Last week, a colleague and I where assigned a task, where in, we have to interact with this person X and get the job done. So I decided to be smart and walked up to him and tried to discuss it with him. All through the conversation, he was very uncomfortable and mostly negative. I discussed the situation with my colleague and he offered to see what he can do. I wanted to see how he handles the situation and hence was overhearing their conversation across the bay ;) (so much for decency.. don't blame me, I just happened to be around). The way he started the conversation changed the whole scenario.. "Kya bhai.. kuch problem hai kya". Words like bhai (Bro in Hindi), machan(brother-in-law, I guess, in Tamil) are very strong words. Its a male thing that I would never understand I guess. Two strangers, relate to each other immediately by simple words like these. They start acting like long last friends. Unfortunately, no such words are available for use with the other gender.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Bhai or no bhai, there's a easy camaraderie, don't you think?

Ramya said...

Definitely.. Sometimes(SOMETIMES) u jus want to be a part of it.

Snowie said...

prob u should something like bhaiya ..or yaar it works (experience says so)

basavaraja gummanur said...

Think before you talk when u start talk in a language which u are learning are else u will end in a loop...