Hinglish/Indian English C/D, S/D

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.

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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

Now entire url can prepone like India only.

Beware of encounters with history-sheeters

I am betrothed to a fair gal from good fly., by the way.

And mishaps involving pickpockets and snatchers

Anti-snatching teams from the commissionerate patrol the fairground in plainclothes and are arresting these men almost every day.

I am betrothed to a fair gal from good fly., by the way.

Spinster? Green? BHP?

USA V. Fair PQG KKB seeks BTFL Alliance. Upper caste no BAR

Package of 50 LPA

What the dickens ive never met an indian who says any of those things but i guess they americanized their speech when talking to me/in the us

I had to Google them myself tbh:
http://thebigfatindianwedding.com/2012/deciphering-matrimonial-ads-a-glossary

And mishaps involving pickpockets and snatchers

Gals need to watch for eve-teasers.

Man, mrs chopra...

Indian buddy showed me one of her bollywood vids

Good lord

Priy4nk4

I had to Google them myself tbh:

As for Mrs. Chopra, I prefer classical rather than film songs.

_And mishaps involving pickpockets and snatchers
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Gals need to watch for eve-teasers.

As for Mrs. Chopra, I prefer classical rather than film songs.

Kindly don't bombard borad with such childish questions.

Commissionerate is needed as there is much wider scope of crime

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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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?