Comments on: MeFil

MeFil

hadjiboy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:02:31 -0800

Meh-fill ~ Gathering (in Urdu), the name suggested by the cydonian to term the first ever, and subsequent (hopefully), Indian Metafilter Gatherings.

By: hadjiboy

hadjiboy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:04:15 -0800

Pictures to come soon. We only have two so don't expect too much. It was great to finally meet someone from the MeFi Universe in person. Although, right after our introduction the cydonian referred to MeFi as Meh-FEE, and I've always been used to calling it ME-FI, but had wondered if it was pronounced the other way round. Does anyone else pronounce it that way? Interesting to hear the words come out of someone's mouth instead of reading them on the screen all the time.

The evening was filled with conversations of Calligraphy, Hyderabadi History, Family Relations and Personal Ambitions. Oh, and Hyderabadi Food, which we've promised to have if we get the chance to meet up again.

It was fun.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:11:58 -0800

Awesome! (For what it's worth, I've always said it 'meh-fee', and I have been castigated for this at meet-ups, because apparently the 'correct' pronunciation is 'mee-fie', so it would seem that you were right all along. But let's not get mired down in that argument here.) Hyderabadi food!

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:37:18 -0800

Excellent. hadjiboy I enjoy your posts and cydonian's comments are always insightful.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:12:54 -0800

I should think the resonable way to pronounce it is Meh-Fee (or probably more accurately Meh-Fih, but that just sounds awkward), no? As in MEtaFIlter. Meh-Fye only makes sense in MeFite. I guess. I'd page languagehat, but he's all descriptivist about these things.

[NOT DESCIPTIVISTIST]

By: Jofus

Jofus — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:44:58 -0800

Mee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the post of an Indian.

sorry.

By: the cydonian

the cydonian — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:47:40 -0800

Hadji, you forgot..... globalization and the common cold. :-|

Seriously :-D , here's a brief summary on Hyderabadi street-name history. Will post later on the African diaspora I was referring to.

_{Yup, am a closetted tour-guide. For maximum impact, of course, should have narrated history on location; nothing like showing folk vast stretches of urban sprawl and saying, all this was once a vast golf course.}

It's Meh-Fi. That's how you pronounce it in Dakhni.

Also, we have photographic evidence!

By: breezeway

breezeway — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:51:17 -0800

It's Meffy, like a big blue Sanrio character.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:57:04 -0800

It looks like I will be in Hyderabad in January, I am hoping to gather a second Meh-Fil. Or I could travel, maybe Bangalore? More to come...

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:59:08 -0800

Wow, did you guys meet at Coffee Day?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:01:13 -0800

Wonderful!

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:25:12 -0800

It's obviously MEH-FIE

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:38:15 -0800

MeFi is something I have no reason to ever say out loud. The syllables in "MetaFilter" are mellifluous enough to make only a typed abbreviation necessary.

As for a user, that's a mee-fyte. The "Me" part is already conscripted as having a long "e" by common use of the abreviation "AskMe", which no one would ever be caught dead pronouncing "AskMeh" (though that may sum up our feelings about it at times).

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:43:52 -0800

MEE-FIE
MEH-TAH

: >

(i have to get myself to India one of these days)

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:37:48 -0800

MeFi is pronounced "meh-fih," just like "HiFi" is pronounced "hih-fih."

By: jason's_planet

jason's_planet — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:17:55 -0800

First MeFi subcontinental meetup!

Excellent!

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:10:15 -0800

I pronounce it like most everyone else, but like to throw in a whole lot of unnecessary letters to celebrate my Celtic heritage: Mheath-Fiaidh.

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:22:19 -0800

There's this restaurant in San Francisco (in that stupidly named SOMA district) called Mehfil. People at my work ate there religiously because of their ultrafast $5 lunches to go.

Now I know what the name means! If you're ever there, you should organize a MeFi Mehfil Meetup.

By: hadjiboy

hadjiboy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:06:53 -0800

Wow, did you guys meet at Coffee Day?

Close--Barista. Glad to know there'll be a second one of these this January, hopefully:)

cydonian: thanks for the Hyderabadi Street-Names History link! (where do you dig this stuff up from?)

By: Wilder

Wilder — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:58:14 -0800

Wonderful. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOT FORGETTING ME AT THE CALL-OUT! ;-)

(everyone forgets me at the call-outs, sob!)

I'd love to get to an Hyderabadi meet-up sometime!