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Swathi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:01:59 -0000

Great Sidin!!! I couldn't stop laughing.

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Archana — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:37:53 -0000

Hehhhwhawhahaa, But must admit... Even with the limitations you managed to thwart the conspiracy and get yourself a punju sasuraal... Some determination that! :)

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Manoj — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:08:02 -0000

This is one really funny post.
I re-read it today, and I still laughed a lot.

Very good stuff.

-Manoj(Walk2Rem)

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Meg — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:53:02 -0000

I LOVED your post! (I've actually just read back from August to here) It reminds me of my troubles with Mandarin (haha the white girl said "undercooked" which sounds like "able-to-get-pregnant" hahaha)

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sunshine — Wed, 31 May 2006 06:53:03 -0000

he he... have you seen the movie "chupke chupke" starring dharmendra, amitabh, sharmila, jaya? Am sure many a fluent hindi speaking people wouldn't understand the "shuddh hindi" terms spoken there. Ever imagined a steam engine could be called lauha path gami agneerath (the fire chariot that moves on iron tracks)?

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.

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Rajesh J Advani — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:31:08 -0000

I hear you! :)

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.

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samudrika — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:32:12 -0000

the weekly Hindi movie on TV

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.

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Siddhu — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:18:54 -0000

Screw hindi!!

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!

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dazedandconfused — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:22:14 -0000

Wow! The funniest blog I have read so far. Its going to be really tough to update my own blog with any real sense of satisfaction.
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.

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nerdie — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:22:22 -0000

Hey,,sidin,,
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....

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Kavita — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:50:06 -0000

Fantastic piece of writing!! Just too good :o)

Cheers,

Kavita

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Sanjay — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:30:19 -0000

hmmm... That reminded me that Hindi of today is composed of hindi, urdu, persian and lots and lots of local dialects prevelant during middle ages. To appreciate it one would have to actually end up learning all the rest of the languages.

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!

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PS — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:11:01 -0000

Too hilarious.. am ROTFL.

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" :))

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Sridevi — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:13:25 -0000

Well, look at it this way- the North Indians ought to be proud of us, and congratulate us, instead of laughing. They know only English and Hindi, and it's absolutely hilarious listening to them pronounce even a single Tam or Mally word. Whereas, we southies know English, mother tongue (Tam/ Mallu/ Gult) and can manage to convey meaning in a HIndi conversation. The northies actually have it real easy. We ought to be proud of ourselves, instead of feeling bad that we atleast attempt to learn a new language- they don't even try!

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Manoj Pillai — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:25:04 -0000

Awesome post man.
Really Booker prize material.

:-)

-Manoj.

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Udita — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:22:58 -0000

!!! this post was soo funny...we used to have a Mallu in our batch and one of the hindi speaking girl would goto him and start blabbering in hindi...we just used to love the confused expression on his face...after an yr he was frustrated at amount of hindi he had picked up without even trying...but i find these goofups endearingly funny..may be even a southie would love if we mess up tamil or malyalam in such cute manner...:)..great post

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Aslan — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:32:19 -0000

n' my here's my contrib to the blooper list: i went one beyond the sade ek phenomenon. a guy asked me "time kya hai?" n' i replied, "ded baje ho gaya" n' the frustrating tittering.. but he had the sense to correct me "ded baj gaye/gaya/gayi..." :-o

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Aslan — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:23:34 -0000

pure genius d00d. talk abt bein' the voice of the public. i'm sure any true blue mallu who studied in an REC can relate perfectly to this.. i for one can. thank god all this happened back in college. 4 yrs there didn't further my technical knowledge, but it sure gave me what 8 yrs of CBSE (course A) hindi textbooks cudn't. 1st milestone was crossed on 1/1/06 when the guy at the anjuna beach shack asked me "aap mumbai se ho?" - 2nd milestone wud be when i pattafy a northie gal. ;) methinks its high time i embarked on that mission! :p

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Queer — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:21:21 -0000

Holy Cow....that was wicked!!! My brother has the same exact problem!!! Sorry dude....but the end of it, I was rolling! Good piece

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flaashgordon — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:08:09 -0000

Sidin Aliyo!

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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Nina — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:59:38 -0000

Rule South India!
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!)

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Venky — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:07:33 -0000

awesome one sidin!!
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..

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mm — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:45:07 -0000

Sidinboy,i feel u should now be writing a book called "my experiments with hindi"..u have written about this in ur ealier blogs too..i remember.And this post was well worth the wait..
Long Live Sidin!!

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Ramesh — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:53:57 -0000

Awesome post Sidin...the freaking bhajji thing is so damn familiar..yeah, it means the same in gult too :-) Be a lil careful when ur addressing a surd and have a tam/gult around you..they would laugh their heads off indeed.

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Maverick — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:47:53 -0000

Ha ha haaaa...you are on rampage once again....