It was one of the most memorable days of Twitter in Sri Lanka - where a bunch of people agreed to tweet mostly in Sinhala - Bringing lots of fun & entertainment to the community.
One day morning @kattasambal tweeted the idea and i replied. We told few people but couldn't get it off the ground. One December Pravin&his better half was making love in Twitter in Sinhala - Umesh replied to them in anger which resulted in declaration of Today - 6th Jan 2011 as the #TweetInSinhalaDay hopefully #TweetInSinhalaDay 1.0. Below is the chief organizing whip - Umesh answering @InduNan s question about how it all started -
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One day morning @kattasambal tweeted the idea and i replied. We told few people but couldn't get it off the ground. One December Pravin&his better half was making love in Twitter in Sinhala - Umesh replied to them in anger which resulted in declaration of Today - 6th Jan 2011 as the #TweetInSinhalaDay hopefully #TweetInSinhalaDay 1.0. Below is the chief organizing whip - Umesh answering @InduNan s question about how it all started -
It's good to see how a bunch of young guys want to carry our unique culture & language forward. Thanks to everyone, specially Umesh,Pravin&his better half and Katta for the good work.
Below are some of the memorable tweets to enjoy & to archive, Otherwise they will be erased automatically. (I'm afraid to mention your names&handles - If you are ok with it, comment below and i will update the post - Also if you want your handle/tweets taken off i will instantly - Just tell me).
#ThatAwkwardMoment = #එමචාටර්මොහොත
We finally came up with the Sinhala equivalent for hash tag #ThatAwkwardMoment = #එමචාටර්මොහොත
E.g.
සෝස් බෝතල් දෙකම කල් ඉකුත් වී ඇති බව දැනගන්නා #එමචාටර්මොහොත
Here's how we arrived at the hash tag.
#AluthRuwanWeki
This hashtag is for the modern Sinhala proverbs. Following is something i came up with, after seeing Fulton failing downloading wrong Torrent for like 4 times
- බාන්න පෙර රිවීව් බලනු
- එක ඇන්ග්රි බර්ඩ්ගෙන් ඌරෝ දෙන්නය්
- ඇන්ග්රි බර්ඩ්ට මල පැන්නා වගේ..
#OddSinhalaTranslation
These is a historical trend we had longtime back - To translate English terms (Literally) to Sinhala. One of the most funniest hash tags in Sri Lanka ever. Check out some of the tweets we got today (Most from @Praveenie)
- ජෛව සටහන = Bio on your twitter profile
- සීමිත සංස්කරණය = Limited Edition,
- තොපෙ අම්මව හදි ගැහිච්චි හැටි = How I met your mother
- රීරි පිසාචයාගේ දිනපොත් = Vampire Diaries
Few other good ones
- Girls වනාහී 70 දශකයේ මෙරටට ගෙනා කලුසුදු TV වැනිය.. කොයි වෙලෙත් සෝ සෝ ගායි..
- මල් ඔතනෝ.. අපි මල් ඔතනෝ.. වට පිට බල බල මල් ඔතනෝ..
- දොඩම් ගෙඩියක් රුපියල් දහයය් නම් දොඩම් ගෙඩි පහක් ගත්තම කීයද..?
- රා.සේ.පි. = රා බොන සේරම පිරිමි
RT Plz @justinbieber බීබරයෝ
රීටීට්ටුවක් දියන් මයෙ අම්මා...,චූටි කුක්කු පැටියා,උබ සුදු කොල්ලනෙ. #TweetInSinhalaDay
Please feel free to comment below with some other good #TweetInSinhalaDay tweets .
Nice round up on the #TweetInSinhalaDay event. This event totally moved me out of the same old timeline and got me to interact with lotsa new tweeps! Credit should go out to @udithaumesh and others who sparked it.
ReplyDeletePs. I don't think linking a twitter handle in a blog post is a crime or a privacy issue. Twitter is about shouting out publicly. And whoever doesn't like it has their profiles protected.
Thank you everyone who contributed in many ways to make #TweetInSinhalaDay event a success. Check this tweet https://twitter.com/#!/PhuckYou_/status/155307917791342592
ReplyDeleteUmesh = @udithaumesh
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