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This friday I made a startling discovery in the office. It was four pm and as usual I was busy battling with the printer to get a couple of important print-outs. After twenty minutes of pressing all the buttons on the printer and some on the adjoint shredder for good measure I was forced to [...%5
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3 years ago
Welcome back dude ! can c this one becoming the next'travails...'...When it comes to commiserating with fellow southies, u zimply rock..!!
3 years ago
Genders... ugh! :))
Thirty years back, my mom, just learning Hindi, made some really great bloopers:
When the vegetable seller told her that the coriander leaves cost Pacchees(25) paise (this was ages ago, remember) - she said, "Nahin, pachaas(50) paise mein dedo!!"
(She got the two mixed up, poor soul, and thought she was bargaining beautifully!). Thank God my father was around, else, the veg seller would have had a gala time.
Next, when a neighbour called her and asked her what she was doing, she answered "Main Bonda ban rahi hun" :) [I am becoming a Bonda]
Glad you are back, Sidin. Don't vanish again.
3 years ago
and the gap makes it all the more delicious...
keep it coming Sidin...or as they say in Punjabi...a language u dare not condemn."Aan de.."
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Good new year treat from you! :)
3 years ago
That was a real fun read :).
3 years ago
I liked the 'no sanity-loving young boy will ever woo a hindi-speaking maiden' para best :)
And your are right about the gender thing :D
3 years ago
:-)
Noodle
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gr8 post. being from mallu land,i never learnt to speak hindi till last year. And even now i have no clue about the gender thing. i dont think i will ever have tht:(.
and to top it all, blokes from hindi heartland asks me how i managed to talk to my friends in college without knowin hindi!! i think according to them its the only language that exists in India and all South Indian languages are Tamil including malayalee( the most common word i heard for malayalam after keraleese)
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as for the gender thing- I add ka/ki/ke- all three just in case and the hearer canchoose the right one!
and in spite of being mallu- tamil too stumps me at times-
hubby loves to tease me becos I say "naai varaar" with utmost respect- "avar varuthu" with complete disdain- sigh....
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My attempts at "write in your own words" were equally embarrassing. Sentences like 'thavala well me hai" were read out in class...
3 years ago
"Mein Gurkha hu,...err, he, heim"
Pls note that we Mallus never make it to the end of it to pronounce it hoon, haan etc. We get it over with rather quickly and spare the nasal of all the trouble - 'hu', 'he', and 'haiym' are more like it.
3 years ago
You just are too much..
Been waiting for your next post here it comes with a bang.
I had put up your Nomenclature Post in my Blog's hall of fame..
Blog's hall of fame..
And now this one is almost as good.
And damn you, i am laughing at work..
SO I asked, Kya Huiii?
3 years ago
nice one for the new year. I remember when i was in fifth i had forgot how to say enough and my freinds mom kept on feeding me till i remembered "bus aunty aur nahi"
3 years ago
And potha, pothi is a telling pronunciation. In north, they have pota, poti, just as they have Kavita (not Kavitha) and Lata (not Latha). Useful tip, that.
3 years ago
Hilarious post!
Main to aap ki kalam chalne ka besabri se intezaar kar raha tha.
I cam speak close to immaculate Hindi even after spending the last 2 years in AP, isnt that an achievement?
3 years ago
THe membership would be very high, till one tam gent proposed that others also form a Uttar Bharatiya Tamil Sangathan (or whatever you call that in TAM)
I guess you would be the honorary president, and Total (or Joshua Pereira ..wasnt it) would be the honorary chairman ;)
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Then again I can speak hindi better than any hindi native, speaks Malayalam
And my friend makes me proud.
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French also has accents placed above and below letters to differentiate the sounds.
All in all its equally confusing.
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Paani sounded very much like Rani, so i asked somebody in my hostel "Pani aa rahi hai kya?" "Paani nahi aa raha" was the instant riposte. Fax does rhyme with Max, pity one has to do a sex change surgery to make it female.
Coupled with that you have enough local styles like "Aapne jaana kahan hai" which has a Punjabi accent. "Aap kya pasand keejiyega? or Kaun Mohalla" in Bihari style or "Tanne samajh na aave?" in chaste Haryanvi. All these are too much for an unsuspecting Madrasi who already has to pump out enough air from his belly to pronounce "Khaana" and "Thali" and "Singh".
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Reminded me of the guy who said 'ande ki maathaa chahiye' at a restaurant.
3 years ago
Vipul
3 years ago
Keep rocking on...
3 years ago
She got so upset with me nad later drove the daylights out of me...
Poor dame! she had expected me to say that he was the writer of "Madhushaala"...:))
3 years ago
Are you talking about the guy from malluland who said this???
I have this friend whose father is known to have said this at a restaurant...Infact this friend told me that he referred to "Swimming pool" as " Paani Mein Ghoomna thing "
Hee ! Hee !!
3 years ago
=))
ulti dude !
*i meant ulti in english,not matrabhasha hindi !*
:)
3 years ago
cheers!!
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Long Live Sidin!!
3 years ago
and.. how much i can relate to this...
i remember this incident a few years ago when I wanted to visit the top floor of a high rise in Bangalore to get a view of the city- i was stopped in the lift by the sincere guard and asked where i wanted to go and why (it was a government office building). And putting my Hindi to test i said "dikhane ke liye uppar ja raha hoon" (i intened saying "dekhne ke liye") It took me a few years to realise why the guard looked so shocked..
3 years ago
My dad went to Delhi to study not knowing a word of Hindi, and therefore a constant source of amusement to his friends. He once saw a poster for the movie 'Des Pardes' and excitedly told his friends that a new English movie called 'Desparadoes' had come out...
A friend once said this: 'Mujhe ek lakdi pakao'- he meant 'Mujhe ek ladki patao'.
And my printer once threw a piece of metal at me (I swear!)
3 years ago
Tood good !
Reminds me of the time when one who went to buy a rope for tying a clothesline at a multi purpose store and asks. " Ek Rassi milegaa?". The shopkeeper replies. "Lassi nahi hain, Chhaas chalegaa?" ...
Well , there's that and more in my own post on the same topic (Rukavat ke liye Raved (i mean khed) hai' . Just click on my name.........
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Really Booker prize material.
:-)
-Manoj.
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Some of the bloopers mentioned in the comments were hilarious too. Reminded me of this undergrad classmate of mine who knows zero hindi and his many bloopers.
Once he wanted to scold a guy in Hindi and he knows only abuses in Hindi, so asked someone whats Hindi for come here.
He ended scolding the dude "Idhar Aiye Behenchod" :))
3 years ago
Just like we go to our house but we never go to our home but simply go home. Why? Find out from the English, or the saxons or the greeks or the latins.
Well, there was a similar article at school by a padre who doubled as a school teacher on English. And he analysed the nuances of the English language with an apaling humour! Kudos to you who has struggled and mastered a language not closely associated with the mother tongue and have the spirit left to site off the nitty-gritties. Good post indeed!
3 years ago
Cheers,
Kavita
3 years ago
thats a great blog man!!!
I was laughing my head off on that!!! I have a number a mallu frnds and they also face the same kind of problems......It was a good post sidin....
3 years ago
One of my Tam batchmates from Erode, admitted during his ragging ordeal that "Bhains" meant money. So there he was giving a speech on 'money' in Hindi which went like,
"Hum sab Bhains kamane aaya hai"
and
"Sabko bhains milna hai"...
Yup. Me too tam grew up in delhi-learnt Hindi weekdays-from calendar guy.
3 years ago
Being a mallu, I have suffered a similar fate al my life! :P
Until now when some idiot makes fun of my hindi genders, I turn to him and make fun of his english pronunciation and grammar. Yields instant results! Try it out sometime. Works with 99.9% of hindi speakers!
3 years ago
You mean channel 33 on thrusday night perhaps? ;) When someone says annual trips to India, growing up in a muslim country, when eid mubarak is wished in the same vein(maybe more) as happy diwali, you know that you have met one of those mixed up souls who grew up in the Middle East.
I like your writing. Keep up the good job. Would love to read something about life in the UAE.
p.s. I started my schooling in Abu Dhabi Indian School too.
3 years ago
A "North-Indian" (A term used by people in Tamil Nadu to refer to everyone who doesn't belong to the 4 "South-Indian" states) tends to have the same problem in Chennai, though.
There's three different pronunciations for "n", but "p", "ph", "b" and "bh" are represented by the same letter of the alphabet. Same for "T", "Th", "D", "Dh". I _could_ go on. But I won't.
3 years ago
and that hilarious shayari of james-
aaj baagon mein khilenga ek gulaab
de saqi pila de pila de pila de ek gilaas julaab.
hope u know what julaab is... he he.
2 years ago
2 years ago
I re-read it today, and I still laughed a lot.
Very good stuff.
-Manoj(Walk2Rem)
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