I found it very funny. And about raajjetherey meehun something madhu, i think its ridiculous that some people still think so. People who utter such racial slur should be penalized.
anon 6:33 - thanks. I've been thinking of the same thing too. What a coincidence. As for the meaning of the expression I think it simply means that people from outer islands are mentally retarded or have lower intellectual capacity compared to people from Male. Perhaps technically speaking its like saying that islanders have lower IQ levels. Well, thats my interpretation. It could perhaps mean something totally different when you consider the morphemes of the entire phrase, though.
The titled expression is a distortion of the original one, "raajjetherey meehunge hatharu kulha-dhili madhu". Which describes the difficulty islanders face in finding women, Islam permitting four women, which equals hatharu kulhandili.
I found it very funny. And about raajjetherey meehun something madhu, i think its ridiculous that some people still think so. People who utter such racial slur should be penalized.
ReplyDeletei feel i am superior to a lot ofother Maldivians. I am not from Male' though.
ReplyDeleteanon 1:34 - thats exactly what is so wrong with so many of us.
ReplyDeleteA little unrelated to the post but what does this expression mean?
ReplyDeleteI checked for kulhandhu in the online Radheef. Says its a local measure of weight equal to 8.5 grams. SO??
http://radheef.com/bas/kuLwndu
anon 6:33 - thanks. I've been thinking of the same thing too. What a coincidence. As for the meaning of the expression I think it simply means that people from outer islands are mentally retarded or have lower intellectual capacity compared to people from Male. Perhaps technically speaking its like saying that islanders have lower IQ levels. Well, thats my interpretation. It could perhaps mean something totally different when you consider the morphemes of the entire phrase, though.
ReplyDeleteThe titled expression is a distortion of the original one, "raajjetherey meehunge hatharu kulha-dhili madhu".
ReplyDeleteWhich describes the difficulty islanders face in finding women, Islam permitting four women, which equals hatharu kulhandili.
Mal'e-supremacism is dying if not dead already. Its Addu-supremacism thats on the rise.
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