Weird people names

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Over at

jacemobile, we’re having a fascinating discussion on the origin of names like “Huchamma” (mad woman), “Tippeswamy” (garbage master), “Gundappa” (grinding stone man) and “Saakamma” (enough woman).

freegeek — Oct 31, 2006 3:29:41 PM — # ↩

And what is themadman in kannada? :)
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Oct 31, 2006 3:38:24 PM — # ↩
  
  Huchappa.
  - freegeek — Oct 31, 2006 3:51:28 PM — # ↩
    
    Thanks :)
yawhatever — Nov 1, 2006 12:34:00 AM — # ↩

neat discussion! it rings true. people DO name their kids so that they dont lose them. good you re-linked it , id never have gone back to that post !
irq2 — Nov 1, 2006 9:13:20 AM — # ↩

Several years ago, when my dad was working as a telephone operator, this is how a conversation went:

man on the other end of the phone: Hello, can you please connect me to XYZ?
dad: Yes, sure, may I know your good name please?
man: Thippeswamy
dad: Do you think that's a good name? (slams the phone down!)
man: (would've been confused as hell)
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