Hinglish/Indian English C/D, S/D

Do the needful

What is your good name?

Do one thing

First class

Kindly adjust

Kindly revert back

OK Boss

iiis it?

Cent percent

ey boddy

you a cheatah cock!

Rowdy shelter, more like

Aargh, autocorrect!
Rowdy sheeter

A history sheeter, a bad egg

“Do the needful” is a dud tbh

Only hinglish in this thread pahl

Rest is fine

That last one is always repeated at least 3x ime, it’s never said only once

Because the maximum people in India do use a form of Indian English as a lingua franca, particularly for things like business / customer service, there has been a need to teach and assess Indian English formally as a separate strand of language, particularly for spoken interaction in a commercial context. I have an Indian English test in my portfolio!

Sorry for the botheration. Would you like to take your tiffin?

Is it paining you?

Cost is one lakh.

(I never thought of most of these as having much to do with Hindi tbh as opposed to just being Indian English, in some cases preserved Victorian English. My Tamil and Malayali family use nearly all if them too.)

"Do the needful" doesn't belong here.

In fact, "Do the needful" and "First class" are pure Alan Partridge - whatever it is Alan Partridge does, slighly dated banter?

Thought about just calling the thread Indian English S/D or putting it in the title but figured Hinglish would be easier to search. Maybe we should ask mod to add.

They DO belong in an Indian English thread and that is my point!xp

i.e. they are not dated in India.

Requested.
kindly do one thing, add words to title

Believe me, I've heard enough Indian (and Pakistani) commentators and summarizers on Test Match Special over the years to know dated English banter is still very much spoken the sub-continent!

... and Sri Lankan, of course.... and Bangladeshi!

two favs:

1. 'pickpocketers'

2. the love of acronyms/abbreviations taken to the extreme e.g. P.O.P. for plaster of paris

Is “guess papers” Indian or is that more from Pakistan or somewhere else?

England v. India test series coming up, should provide content for this thread.

Talking about abbreviations, saying jan for january

Not sure if this is an indian tech thing or just indian english

i picked up "jan" from indian tech guys

Guess papers unite all of the subcontinent.

Thanks. Btw was your earlier post about your portfolio your own words or were you quoting something?

Mine.

All are impressed.

My tiffin is non-veg.

I will also take coffee in a tumbler.

I have been out of station from Monday so I am endeavoring to give thought on how I can be an assistance in this thread now only.

Thats more better than any!

Any hill station near Chennai?

Convent educated, clean shaven, wheatish boy seeks hill station near Chennai

Did he study English medium? Is his complexion fair?

How old are you? Why are you not married yet?

Hill stations are far from Chennai only. We can hire a lorry and keep our cycles there. It will be some two nought five kilometres.

Can we prepone our excursion without additional charges if we intimate now in written?

actually

I hope you are all mugging and by-hearting this thread, as there will soon be a test.

I thought about "by-hearting" the other day.

Really? Were you by any chance by-hearting Villa-Lobos’s Prelude No. 1?

http://imgur.com/kMDHWaxl.png

Just begun watching 2010 TV series Powder on Netflix; it is subtitled in IE.

http://indusladies.com/community/threads/better-to-be-a-potato-or-an-egg.307442/
^^Kindly revert back with your suggestions below

I recognize that this is a text based thread but this guy is just great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3M7v3NGNyw

A+

Got some false positives because the Tagalog word for no is "Hindi," I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiH0u-s_pQ

Mindblowing!

Kikkoman who?

PANKAJ JAISWAL 3 weeks ago

Danger for helth

(In case you’re interested: The Flashy Crawl on Biryani Carts, Convenience Stores, etc.)

My new puppy is exceptionally frightful, I cannot bring her even to the public park lest she take fear.

http://bollywoodhelpline.com/editor-39-s-pick/bollywood/a-tale-of-forbidden-love-guru-dutt-waheeda-rehman/9266
https://www.thebridalbox.com/articles/guru-dutt-and-waheeda-rehman-wedding_0056750/

Sorry, have recently become interested in Guru Dutt. He is an ace director.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g608474-d10833440-Reviews-A_1_Chikki-Lonavala_Pune_District_Maharashtra.html

One of the many things for which lonavala is famous for . CHIKKI's. There are a variant types of chikkis including all nuts kind. Try to carry plenty of chikki gifts to friends and family . No one would want to resist a good snack.

https://www.mouthshut.com/product-reviews/A1-Chikki-Lonavala-reviews-925739577

A1 chikki wala is a very famous chikki center at Lonawala. As we all know Lonawala is a hill station famous for Chikki and hence we always get it from there. Though we get some famous chikki brands now in mumbai as well but Lonawala is specially a place where people can get chikki’s for gifting too.

Convent-educated clean-shaven wheatish boy seeks Eastern Economy Edition no issue caste no bar

I started reading Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, which both seems good so far and also contains plenty of quality IE in the dialogue.

I've just learned that in Kerala, your trendy pair of glares are instead called "cooling glasses."

https://i.imgur.com/ZHOhpu0.png

Ha, didn't realize that was Kerala-specific.

A+

I saw some hits for “cooling glasses for mens.” Is that “mens” IA or just a typo?

Just came across this in a completely different context. The IA element is kind of light but I want to read more from this guy: https://www.thehindu.com/books/know-your-english/know-your-english-meaning-of-pancake-people/article2750006.ece

Extra points given for the basic fact-checking/ continuity/proofreading error in the first paragraph.

I think mens is only not a typo when it's in corpore sano.

Or In Living Color.

Are you referring to the poorly checked fact that dosas are not necessarily flipped

Ha, no, didn’t notice that one. Was referring to the incorrect spelling of someone’s name that had been spelled correctly in the previous sentence.

I was asked on Saturday by a friend's mother from Mumbai, "Are you married having kids?"

Did you tell her that you had no issue?

how does Jimmy Durante say “very good” in Hindi?

please do this for me once

lol

all my immediate coworkers have been in the US too long or are younger and raised on Hollywood movies so I seldom get any good hinglish phrases

on the other hand, I have definitely picked up some speech patterns

not quite the same thing, but i spent a certain chunk of my day browsing through a copy of "hobson jobson"

dude really fucking hated avocadoes

i made a customer service call yesterday and every question i asked the guy said "yes, for that one..." even though i was not talking about a "one," like an option among choices. it was cute.

Yeah, that def sounds like IE.

Yes, for that one, a worthy addition to our thread.

I just learned "Do the needful" a month ago and I've been working with Indian tech people on and off for years. I like it

I wish I could use it without coming across as a disrespectful doofus. Its French equivalent, 'faites le nécessaire', is fairly common.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-origins-of-horn-ok-please-indias-most-ubiquitous-phrase

Looking at that seemed to have brought me some ads for a publication called The Juggernaut.

there's a london based indian street food outlet called horn ok please, didn't know its origin or ubiquity.

Have been out of station, reverting back now only.

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— Froggo (@FrogsRevenge) September 12, 2021

Don’t know if this has been noted already itt but I’ve often been taken aback & charmed by the IE use of the verb “club” where in SE we would say “group”, e.g. “I will club these things together.”

my friend from Delhi says “trust me on that” the same way I’d say “take my word for it”

What’s this about Baby being a common nickname or even a name in India?