Kissi Mahaan aur lambe aadmi ne kahaan tha English is a funny language. Where I am concerned every language is funny. Some excerpts.
Excerpts 1 – Between me & Priyanka (a girl from lucknow)
Me : Priyanka maine naya pendant liya hai tujhe batana hai, mere saath locker room chal na, jaldi chal mujhe batana hai.
Priyanka (exasperated) : Yaar tune already bata diya hai, abhi tu dikhana chahti hai, tum bambaiwale kaisi hindi bolte ho.
Excerpts 2 – Between Me & Nikhil (a guy from Delhi)
Me : Arey Nikhil tera toh popat ho gaya.
Nikhil : Yeh popat kya hota hai.
Me : yaar poooopat, popat nahi jaanta arey woh parrot
Nikhil : acha matlab tota kehna chahti thi
Me (A sheepish expression on my face)
Excerpts 3 – Me & Manav (Again a guy from Delhi)
Manav : Maine fashion street sey T-shirt kharidi
Me : Kitne mein
Manav : do sau mein
Me : tujhe usne shendi lagaya, fashion street mein toh yeh 1 sau mein milti hain
Manav : Yeh shendi kya hoti hai?
Me : Shendi nahi maloom, shendi matlab balon ki chonti ya poni
Manav : haan toh woh dukandaar mujhe woh kaise laga sakta hai
Me : Forget it.
Excerpt 4 : Me, my sister, waiter in a restaurant in Chandigarh
Me : Waiter aap khane ke saath kaanda nahi dete hain
Waiter : Huh?
My sister : arey idiot, kaanda nahi yaha pyaaz bolte hai, tu Maharashtra mein nahi Punjab mein hain. (She will never leave a chance to insult me)
Me (red faced with embarrassment)
10 comments:
Aaaaaargh! B-ism all over the place :o
Thanks ashtrix.
good to come across a mumbaikar with similar experiences.
:0 as to the topic, my favorite is Hawa ane de.. and patlie gali se nikal le.. i have a great time confusing my mostly eurpoean and rest arabic contacts :):0 its a diff story that my french manager found what hawa ane de means.. dont ask what happ.. :)
Being a northie, this always makes me go laughing. Lovely post.
(BTW, got u linked up now)
Deepak! Not just the northies..I have found, the innumerable southies that I meet, laugh at me too.
U Mumbaikars ne hindi kki vaat laga di hai!
great B-isms!
Thanks Deepak.
We just can't help lagaoning vaat of Hindi, most of the time we dont even realize.
Aye, vat le, abhi kya naya posht maangta hai... nahi to khopche mein leke kharcha pani de dalega kya. Kasa kai, bara hai, I am Mumbhai
bole toh mumbhai, apun thode bijee hai, kaam jara badh gayela hai, aur aaj kal apun supporting role kar rehle, Ganju ke picture mein. Phursat mili toh kuch leekhenge na bhai.
LOL! Sharmana chod dal, baat dil ka bol daal, aaju baju mat dekh, naya posht kar dal.
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