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

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
_


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

Please reply with same

Playback singer Sund4r is ready for the wedlock

I can play some nice numbers.

Kollywood playback singer ShariVari has crooned with three languages Tamil, Hindi and English.

Microtonal bollywood

These actors can replace singers and croon for their own films and they have built an exceptional base for their unique talent

They are currently shooting a multistarrer bilingual which is on the brink of completion.

Lakhs of cinema halls will soon screen

Each will have years of wealthy knowledge in writing academic scribblings and will do it with proper top notch, penning a high-prime quality advanced schooling paper

Lakhs of the playback singer’s fans thronged the cinema halls to greet the debut of the Sund4r-starrer bilingual this weekend. Sund4r fever hast truly gripped Chennai. “In the last decade never have I witnessed such a craze” trade analyst ShariVari told ILX.

(Hast)

It is an excellent time pass.

Celebrations that went throughout night reached their crescendo as the clock neared 4 am.

Every movie release of his is accompanied by hype, and frenzied fans make a beeline to catch the first show.

The Greater Chennai Police Commissionerate arrested 11 persons during the multiplex mania for selling movie tickets in black market in the North Zone of the metropolis

Scores of fans thronged to Chennai on the eveninger from Bangalore to click a selfie and chat with the Kollywood superstar.

Every time a Sund4r movie releases, most true-blooded fans are caught up in the hysteria that is generated and allow themselves to be enveloped by the Superstar juggernaut.

It is now my turn to bid adieu, to the familiar ditties, dusty threads and scrumptious food of ILX. Tom, kindly do one thing, DELETE ILX NOW only!

Sleep is coming
( still not sure about that ‘only’ thing)

The IE usage of "only" seems logical and consistent but hard to explain to me. I think it's basically a limiter, like "just". "Now only" = "just now"; mick signals's above sentence was first class.

Simply don't say, shy is coming!

Haha i’d forgotten about only

Let’s fast-forward the songs. They’re too long.

Sund4r is one of the most big actor, you can see the amount of hardwork he has put, but despite all his qualities perfectly humble. If you seek an autograph from Sund4r, ask him only!

:)

( should I have said Bengaluru upthread?)

I once had to edit (read: convert to American English) a 500-page novel written like this. It nearly drove me insane.

Yesterday I was roaming with my friends, there was much snowfall

No issue

Dusky, convent educated ILX0R, from good fly. seeking, well-placed, animal loving, pure vegetarian groom, caste no bar (OBC,SC/ST please excuse)

(It was paining me to type that, tbh)

No place here for casteism, colourism, or communalism.

(Very happy at how this thread worked out. some of my favorites are short and sweet such as)

I can play some nice numbers.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, July 27, 2018 10:28 PM

Simply don't say, shy is coming!

― mick signals, Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:19 AM (yesterday)

Please don’t eat my head!

(Translation from Kannada, apparently)

Traditional values, modern outlook

(Just ran into an Indian American acquaintance and tried this stuff out but it fell on deaf ears)

( and my ears were deaf as well, since I stood in front of the amplifiers of the loud metal band my friend had booked to play in the park)

(Don’t quite get it, guy’s house is filled with Bollywood movie posters and lots of other references to aspects of Indian culture)

(Also somehow this is making me review the fact that Prasanna has collaborated with A.R. Rahman, but I thought he might have some other composers in his family tree except I can’t figure out who)

Hindi films are in Hindi only tbf.

(Sure but the Bollywood posters is only one thing. The guy was telling me about various travels in India. He must have expose to IE. Really just trying to determine whether he is just a visual artist type and not tuned into that stuff or if he wasn’t expecting to be discussing it in the situation we were in. Not going to think about too much now)

(Really I am afraid I offended the guy, he moves in very woke circles. I guess I can find out)

Don't take tension, sir.

(Lol, thanks)

Greetings of the day!

Yes, i can imagine a lot of NRIs might not appreciate it.

Indian English is legit interesting as a dialect, in the same way that American English or Australian English is, but idk how easy it would be for everyone to separate that interest from its use a tool to mock Indian migrants (Apu style).

Partic, which may or may not be the case, if you had parents who brought you up to think that non-US-standard English is wrong / embarrassing.

(Yeah, exactly. Just saw on instagram guy has a “stay woke” note his kid made him so... In any case, told him about Prasanna gig on Saturday, will see how that smooths things over)

I am sure your friendship will not perish due to this mishap.

(Okay, new week so maybe now I will tell you about this website I found which calls itself “The definite guide to South Asian lingo,” namely http://www.samosapedia.com/
Don’t know what to make of it. Seems to be a giant superset of what we have discussed so far, but maybe it is hyper-specific and up-to-date as of three years ago at least, and will go stale quicker)

(Prasanna doing his monthly gig in about a half hour. This month it’s a tribute to A.R. Rahman and he’s got some top Latin musicians in the band. Maybe I can catch the end of it. I’ve heard him speaking Tamil before, a language with which I have zero familiarity)

Right on. I'm listening to his 2000 Carnatic album Natabhairavi.

ShariVari OTM upthread as well; lol at Americans mocking people from other countries for modifying the English language, though.

(Still, yes,, can be a touchy subject these days.)

recently came across this fascinating forum http://indusladies.com/community/find-new/26555920/posts

this thread includes the wonderful phrase: "As long as he behaves decent, ignore; it is a harmless pass time."

I am enjoying the cultural flavor of some of the jokes posted there (especially by user ksuji), and the IE usages definitely add to it.

:

Mrs. & Mr. Ramaswamy went to US on a six-month trip -- your guess is correct, their daughter was carrying.
On a pleasant morning, Mr. Ramaswamy was watching the TV where a live show of sending a satellite was being telecast from NASA. The countdown began ,
10, 9, 8, 7,6,5,4, 3,2,1,0.......
The rocket was stationary, motionless , quiet, retaining its place.
Nothing happened.
All the scientists and other staff were very much worried, they had a morose , grim face . They all checked every part inch by inch, cm by cm.Everything was alright.
They tried to start.
A second countdown.
NOTHING HAPPENED.

A final check : mm by mm.
A final countdown.
It was STATIC.
They were not weeping , that is all.
So many millions of $ should go into a waste? All the countries are watching.
Time passed and passed.

The higher ups , chairman,ministers, President and all were very much worried.
Mr. Ramaswamy made a call to the space center and asked whether he could give a humble suggestion.
From the President, Ministers, Chief of the Centre to the last staff came running to the video conference. When they had lost hope they were prepared to hear the suggestion of even a child. The President immediately announced ,if the suggestion would work , Mr.Ramaswamy would be rewarded with a Big house,a Mercedes car,free education up to any level for his children and grandchildren, a good amount of pension and what not.
Mr.Ramaswamy refused the rewards , if any, but was told that once announced it is confirmed.
Within the next half an hour he was taken to the Space Center by a helicopter where he was given a warm welcome. A large number of people gathered around him waiting for the move of his lips. All of them were prepared to do whatever he ordered.
Ramaswamy asked them to turn the rocket 45° to the left and then 45° to the right and then set it aright.
They did so.
He then asked them to make the countdown .
They also did so.
OH!!!!! TO THE WONDER AND ASTONISHMENT OF EVERYONE THE ROCKET FLEW PIERCING THE AIR, ATMOSPHERE AND THE SKY.
They were all amazed.
People around lifted Ramaswamy and shouted "Hip Hip Hurray".
They exchanged ##s (what is the substitute of laddu in USA ?) among each other . Mr.Ramaswamy became a genius,honorable and dignified person to all of them. Ramaswamy was then taken outside the cordoned limit where all media persons were waiting for him for an interview.
The media men asked him how he sensed the fault and found the right solution for it.
Mr.Ramaswamy said," Whenever my scooter strikes on the way I am used to turn it about 45° this side and that side, and then kick,it will start immediately".
(All the above is only for the purpose of joke ; it is all read somewhere, so many years back --if not allowed pl. remove this thread).
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PS: He was taken back to his house with due honour and the rewards were not withdrawn. Nowadays some corporates are seeking his help for solving their problems.

Mrs. Soandso was fat , very fat , very very fat. As advised by the doctor she was in dire necessity to reduce her weight.
She saw an advertisement which claimed to reduce her weight by FIFTY kilograms in a month. She paid a large amount and bought the tablets . After taking a few tablets some allergy developed. As per doctor's advice she discontinued taking tablets . The money back guarantee of the company is still in the air.
Her doctor advised her that walking is the only best solution .
Instead of walking two kilometers a day , (as the doctor said " say, from your house to the temple "),she walked about two hundred metres a day by going through shortcut ; sometimes she would get lift in some two-wheeler.
Her doctor advised her to take two chapatis in the nights . She was very obedient to the doctor and sincerely ADDED two, sometimes three or four , ghee spread chapatis to her supper,daily.
Mrs.Soandso was like a child .
(அவங்களுக்கு குழந்தை உள்ளம்).
Whenever she bought cakes or chocolates for her children there would be a share for her too.
Her weight didn't reduce , instead increased.
She bought a hot belt (like a hot plate )--
Again only burns and allergies.
At last as advised by the lady in the next house she joined horse riding.
There was an excellent result :
THE WEIGHT WAS REDUCED BY TWENTY KILOGRAMS WITHIN ONE MONTH --(weight
of the horse ).

haha, love those

I am recognizing this type. It pulls my nerve.

I saw L. Subramaniam at the Great India Festival in front of City Hall last night and was reminded of this thread: https://imgur.com/a/JvHkRpj

Actually, if you can see this, I might delete the Imgur post: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qRhNf9nNNUtPitBP6

I can see it only. Kindly do the needful

Dr. Subramaniam is a real maestro.

Delectable

(Taking a look at the new Duolingo Hindi course. I tried to learn Hindi several years ago. I seemed to get a basic grasp- the grammar is Indo-European and doesn't seem so complicated, and I spent a little time working on the writing system- but I actually got a little discouraged in that it is not the home language for as many as you might think and it seems to almost irritate some people when you try to learn it.

Learning a language should not give botheration for anyone. Thinking that Hindi is the native tongue for all or even most Indians, or that it is the national language = a grave mishap

I think I saw that only 41% of India’s population are considered native Hindi speakers and “only” 54% say they can speak it as a first or second language.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/why-is-tamil-nadu-opposed-to-imposition-of-hindi/article18401295.ece

Also worth remembering that Modern Standard Hindi isn’t going to be the form spoken everywhere.

The above newspaper is a first class example of Indian English writing btw.

Interesting, thanks. Yes, I remarked upon the exemplary nature of the prose.

I had another tangentially related question. There are certain words that come from Arabic or Persian, say, that seem to also appear in Hindi and Turkish, for example, which I always assume got passed around by some empire, be it Ottoman, Mughal, Safavid or other, but of course could have been transmitted by some other route. Curious if such words made into other languages on the subcontinent, although the only one I can think of right now is kitap or kitab, meaning "book."

Especially " even though not many are optimistic of the ability of the issue to catapult any political formation to capture power. " Also, I might have to start using "chutney on the leaf."

The term ‘hindi’ itself is of Persian origin iirc.

There’s a tonne of them - sabzhi, naraanji, etc, some of which are the same in, for example, Gujarati and Bangla, some of which are different.

I say this confidently like I can read Hindi, rather than read a menu, but for the avoidance of doubt, I absolutely can’t.

Yes, the word “Hindi” is from Persian. I believe the original fruit the word “naraanji” was used for is different from an orange.

To the efforts to make Hindi compulsory, Annadurai replied with a ridicule. 'If we had to accept the principle of numerical superiority while selecting our national bird, the choice would have fallen not on the peacock but on the common crow.' 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Phrase_sanskrit.png

All peacocks to me.

What an HTML nonsense!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Phrase_sanskrit.png

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.

pic.twitter.com/dKw6HopY28

— 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?

“click a pic” ubiquitous in Maharashtra when I visited last month

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

― akm, Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:34 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

― pomenitul, Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:40 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't know if anyone in Ireland uses this outside my family, but my family certainly used to say it, and we have never had any connection to India that I know of.

It's likely just an old fashioned phrase that everyone used to use and just happened to keep on in certain parts of the world. I like it. It's useful

Wow, I never thought about that possibility, but I just looked it up on Google Books and found a bunch of non-Indian examples from the 18th and 19th centuries.

For instance, in an 1886 dictionary of business phrases, which I can imagine being used in India at that time.

much like all the random accents and slang that exists in North America (and other places) that disappeared long ago elsewhere

what was the consensus on Shakespeare-era accent? I know at one point the closest decedents included people from Ohio or thereabouts

Two of my favourite features of IA are the use of "actually" and "itself" in ways that I can't completely put my finger on, but are different to UK or US English. We would normally only use "actually" at the start of a sentence if we were correcting a previous sentence, but that doesn't seem to be the case in IA. And I love sentences like "FIVE key road bridges in #Mumbai - Vikhroli, Reay Road, Byculla, Gokhale Bridge and Carnac Bridge -will be opened for traffic this year itself." There's a lot about IA that reminds me of Hiberno-English. (For similar reasons, obvs.)

We would normally only use "actually" at the start of a sentence if we were correcting a previous sentence, but that doesn't seem to be the case in IA.

Actually I'm not sure about that.

Sure, lookit.