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Day before yesterday was my cousin’s wedding, everything went great. The part I liked most, I was chatting with him that evening and found out that he had 500GB ext. HardDisk (HDD), almost filled with movies. This was something I loved, considering the fact that I am watching 1-2 movies everyday from Oct ‘07.

Well, the reason for this post, One of the movie from the collection “The Gods must be Crazy“, made me realize the fact that there can really be names with a click in it. (You can download this sound sample of the “click” I am talking about.) . I didn’t actually believe when Russel Peters said this in one of his shows.

There actor was this actor in the movie who plays a African bushman (Tribe people / Aadiwasi), who does not know the modern world or man, called Xi whose actual name is “N!xau”. Now, many of you might wonder what the exclamation mark doing there. Well, its the click I was talking about.

The exclamation mark in his name is a symbol for a click consonant in his native tongue, Ju|’hoan. The spelling of his full name Gcao Coma suggests that it is a voiced dental click. The dental clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.

Interesting eh ? If so, you should watch movie. Its about a bushman “Xi” who starts his quest to throw the evil thing (a coke bottle) of the edge of the world and encounters Western civilization for the first time. The film presents an interesting interpretation of civilization as viewed through Xi’s perceptions.