Sudda says "Balagena!"

This is an interesting thing really happened to my team last week. We had this British customer who came down to Sri Lanka for a discussion with us with relate to a project, which we are doing for him and for his other business activities.

The meeting went on for more than three hours and my colleagues used Sinhala to converse between team members at certain points as we thought the foreigner doesn’t understands the native tongue. We did this when we wanted to hide our slip-ups during the presentation.

At the end, as we understood that the fellow knows quite a lot about Sri Lanka and one of our guys asked the sudda, “hey do u understand Sinhala?” answer was “yes, balagena”

Luckily we didn’t blame him.