I have discovered an amazing similarity across distant languages

Braznor

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I should get some kind of prize for this.

So the english word for cat is well, cat.

Now my mother tongue is Tamil, a regional language in India and one of the most ancient tongues on Earth.
Now the word for cat in Tamil is Poonai.

From the word Poonai, we can derive the first 4 characters Poon which is Pussy in English for Vagina like I got some poon last night and yada yada yada.

Isn't it amazing?
 

BudAshes

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I should get some kind of prize for this.

So the english word for cat is well, cat.

Now my mother tongue is Tamil, a regional language in India and one of the most ancient tongues on Earth.
Now the word for cat in Tamil is Poonai.

From the word Poonai, we can derive the first 4 characters Poon which is Pussy in English for Vagina like I got some poon last night and yada yada yada.

Isn't it amazing?

Pics of mothers poonai?
 

BurnItDwn

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Oct 10, 1999
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So, did you come from Chennai originally? Or another city in the region? Or you came from the countryside or a village? What's your favorite cuisine from that area?
Had a friend introduce me to Andhra foods a few months ago, i LOVE the pepper mutton, was one of the first times I had truly spicy & hot Indian food dishes.
 

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Maybe Englishmen picked it up from Tamil during the British empire days when they were all over the world.
 

Crono

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Today I learned that Tamil isn't an Indo-European language.

Yeah, it's Dravidian. My family (from Kerala) speaks Malayalam, the sister language of Tamil. Proto Dravidian isn't easily connected to other language groups, but it does sound similar to me to Uralic languages like Hungarian or Finnish, but very vaguely or distantly. There's probably a common ancestor in long-dead Mesopotamian languages.
 
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