Some feelings are inexplicable. And there are points in our life when we feel them. Like ‘self-actualization’, ‘trance’, ‘enlightened’… ‘high’…
I seriously love these moments!!...here’s one where I felt so high…
Went for an entrance exam somewhere and the first task they gave me was to translate a hindi news item to English.
Two weeks before. We had to write and practice some news at college. So I picked up some Hindi news item. Why?
For all the purists…who are highly uncomfortable to hear my hindi…and still wondering why I did something like that…
Well, Khayyam wanted to do it in Hindi (he was my partner) and so I agreed, I told myself, “there’s nothing you can do, come on, take it as a challenge”..i will admit that I thought Hindi is easy…but people…news Hindi is sooooooooo hard if you don’t have much exposure to it (yes, I have never read a Hindi newspaper, and i just cant understand Hindi news on TV…so I watch it in English)….i had nothing to loose to do the news in hindi…
So what are the Tamil Tigers doing??..i asked Khayyam…is it yudh?? Ladhai??...he said no…it’s a ‘vivaad’…….So the first word I learnt that day was vivaad…
Now back to the written test, I was given the hindi script…and the first word of the piece was “vivaad”…wow…I was so in love with Khayyam and myself…I was so happy that two weeks ago, for the first time in my life, I took up a challenge…I had never done before…its was meant to be
My classmates laughed at me and so did my professor…arre…even my dad mocks at my hindi…but man, I don’t give a shit…big deal….i can do what no one else can..i can be different…
I am remembered of two people I recently like..one is Katrina Kaif..she cant speak hindi well, but India likes her…she makes the statement that hindi can be spoken in an accent..(thank you)…and then there is Farhan Akhtar…been watching Oye its Friday…he gives you the perfect example of Hinglish…
Hinglish??...yes, for the purists, its blasphemy…for the real…its true
Hinglish is NOT…I repeat NOT a mixture of hindi and English, it is not random selection of words...but it’s a careful selection of two genres of words (which happen to be in different languages)…
Lemme explain…
Chalo, ab hum apna agla performance dekhte hain…
Kitni saari political parties contest kar rahi hain…
Yaar, train late thi…
Im not sure ki mujhe yeh achcha lagta hai ya nahin….
See, words like performance, late, parties..are used in english, their hindi translation wont be used…and words like ‘ghar’, ‘achcha’ will mostly be used in Hindi…
Like you wont say ‘main apne home jaa rahi hoon’…or ‘yeh ice cream kitni good hai’…
For the linguist, this is food…
Ek toh, Hinglish has lots of Urdu in it…ok…so for the purist…..hahahahahhahaha
Chek out the word to be ‘bored’…
Boriyat…(I think its Hindi or Urdu or Boredom...am I right??)
Boredom, boring…is English..!!
I seriously love these moments!!...here’s one where I felt so high…
Went for an entrance exam somewhere and the first task they gave me was to translate a hindi news item to English.
Two weeks before. We had to write and practice some news at college. So I picked up some Hindi news item. Why?
For all the purists…who are highly uncomfortable to hear my hindi…and still wondering why I did something like that…
Well, Khayyam wanted to do it in Hindi (he was my partner) and so I agreed, I told myself, “there’s nothing you can do, come on, take it as a challenge”..i will admit that I thought Hindi is easy…but people…news Hindi is sooooooooo hard if you don’t have much exposure to it (yes, I have never read a Hindi newspaper, and i just cant understand Hindi news on TV…so I watch it in English)….i had nothing to loose to do the news in hindi…
So what are the Tamil Tigers doing??..i asked Khayyam…is it yudh?? Ladhai??...he said no…it’s a ‘vivaad’…….So the first word I learnt that day was vivaad…
Now back to the written test, I was given the hindi script…and the first word of the piece was “vivaad”…wow…I was so in love with Khayyam and myself…I was so happy that two weeks ago, for the first time in my life, I took up a challenge…I had never done before…its was meant to be
My classmates laughed at me and so did my professor…arre…even my dad mocks at my hindi…but man, I don’t give a shit…big deal….i can do what no one else can..i can be different…
I am remembered of two people I recently like..one is Katrina Kaif..she cant speak hindi well, but India likes her…she makes the statement that hindi can be spoken in an accent..(thank you)…and then there is Farhan Akhtar…been watching Oye its Friday…he gives you the perfect example of Hinglish…
Hinglish??...yes, for the purists, its blasphemy…for the real…its true
Hinglish is NOT…I repeat NOT a mixture of hindi and English, it is not random selection of words...but it’s a careful selection of two genres of words (which happen to be in different languages)…
Lemme explain…
Chalo, ab hum apna agla performance dekhte hain…
Kitni saari political parties contest kar rahi hain…
Yaar, train late thi…
Im not sure ki mujhe yeh achcha lagta hai ya nahin….
See, words like performance, late, parties..are used in english, their hindi translation wont be used…and words like ‘ghar’, ‘achcha’ will mostly be used in Hindi…
Like you wont say ‘main apne home jaa rahi hoon’…or ‘yeh ice cream kitni good hai’…
For the linguist, this is food…
Ek toh, Hinglish has lots of Urdu in it…ok…so for the purist…..hahahahahhahaha
Chek out the word to be ‘bored’…
Boriyat…(I think its Hindi or Urdu or Boredom...am I right??)
Boredom, boring…is English..!!
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