I gave some weird looks sensing their moment-later-joy.
I answered with a poker face,
“It means, DEAR”.Just a second later , I could hear her shouting in her loud audible voice “Putty Pooja” in that typical South Indian tone.! Urggh! :DWhen we were already done with the Introductory Kannada learning session, my curious friends wanted to know the translations of many words now.My minor-project-partner asked me the Kannada translation of “What are you doing?”.When I gave him the translation, he couldn’t comprehend my speech and decided to take help of Google. Once he was clear in his pronounciation,he shouts to a girl sitting at the other corner of the room “Nīvu ēnu māḍuttiddīri?”which lead to a pin drop silence with that girl questioning “Kya bol raha hai bey!”When the meaning was revealed to her,it led her to say “Sirf ‘What are you doing ‘ ke liye itna bada bolneka!”
LOL! God Bless Google Translate! :D