Wednesday, November 23, 2005

ANGREJI - ALL OUR OWN

The English language is a rich source of laughter when employed by those who do not speak it entirely well. Here are two instances of considerable distortion of the correct, beautiful thing. I doubt if the persons who uttered the words will ever visit my blog, but i will spare them the embarrassment by avoiding their names.

"Why did you go for Khushboo's throat like this?", I quizzed a politician. Denying the charge, he replied, "Naw, naw, we did not do any protest... the women were naturally aroused when they heard khushboo." (Then they do pretty strange things when naturally aroused.)

A sweet old man, who is a bit of a "source" wanted me to call him before I went over to his house. He likes to speak my language - the language of the young and trendy, so he said, "Please give me a tune before you come." I am going to meet him now after giving him that tune.

9 comments:

hemangini said...

Ha ha ha I laughed and laughed and laughed. Which was a refreshing change from the rest of my day :)

Bala (Karthik) said...

Alaphia,
LOL :-)

I overheard this at work [i'm into s/w]:
A team member hollering into the phone [a yank on the other side, perhaps]: "Oh that bug? I'm not able to reproduce here. Do you have any suggestions?"

Unknown said...

hehe...
Did you get to interview Rajnikant :))
would love to hear him speak ,,
cheers
satish

Abhi! said...

Lol at the tune!

Anonymous said...

I liked the way you said, "why did u go for K's throat?" Is that a literal translation of a hindi phrase - "aap unke gale ke picche kyun pade ho?"...haven't heard that one. Didn't mean it as a put-down ---I do it all the time :))

cynicalcount said...

Hey surprised u didnt write anything on the Khusboo issue since u covered it.

Alaphia Zoyab said...
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Alaphia Zoyab said...

Hi Cynical... I was over-reporting it and feeling very jaded. Thats why i couldnt blog about it. But i can tell you it was the biggest non-story of the year. Completely unworthy of the attention it got. It only reveals how hypocritical we are and shall i say a trifle jobless.

Hi wearelikethisonly.... Its a commonly used english expression... dont know if it was originally borrowed from Hindi.

Anonymous said...

:-)

It reminds of the time when a TV reporter said something to the effect that, "The mammaries of this will remain with these people forever."

I'm sure!