Kiyanne Jokes

In Sri Lanka we have this MP from Hali Ela, (presently minister of Justice and Buddha Sasana) W J M Lokubandara, who Sinhalised his initials to match whatever names he has, so now he is Wee Ja Moo Lokubandara. He had this programme in schools also to doctor initials.

WeeJayMoo once had gone to a school armed with overhead projector OHP) etc, dislodged lady teacher and asked students thier names. Here is a conversation that he had,

Wee Jee Moo: " oyage nama kiyanna".
Kid: "Mama L. B. Ratnayake".

Wee Jee Moo: "putha L. B. kiyanne mokak-da".
Kid: "Loku Banda".

Wee Jee Moo: "Meeta passay oya L. B. Ratnayake nemey, oya LoBa Ratnayake".

He asked another student
Wee Ja Moo: Putha kiyanna oyage sam-poorna nama
Kid: mage name PUlasthi Kankanamge Kapila Lucas Fernando
Wee Ja Moo: putha, ada indala oyage nama. Pu Ka KaLu Fernando
Another Kid: Sir mage nama K. N more...

One day a Sinhala teacher explained the meaning of Hydrophobia to
his class in the following way:

"Now students what you do when you see a big word in Sinhalese?
You break it up into small small words and try to get the meaning
of it.
For example let's take Hydrophobia and break it up into small
small words:

High-dorrh-four-bee-yahh....
High kiyanne uda
Dorrh kiyanne dora
Four kiyanne hathara
Bee kiyanne mee-massa
Yahh kiyanne mee masi-nahdaya
Ethakota lamaiyne Mee masso hathra denek dora uda indagena nadha
karanakota Hydrophobia....