Friday, June 02, 2006

Crazy Angrezi

After spending what could have been an hour in the queue,I finally submitted all the papers in my hand at the submission desk
The man at the counter looked up to me and asked "Bring the 'virginal' copy" The expression on my face must have looked really terible cause the girl next to me said "He is asking for the 'original' copy" of the result sheet." The man reiterated
"madam, if you has the' verginal' copy then submit it or come tumaro".
Unable to bear such an insult of my dear language,I wanted to shout,
"abbe hindi mein bol!" But the man did not seem to have any intension
of abandoning his beloved angrezi!
Most of us indians tend to use huge jawbreaking words without even knowning their proper meaning.This reminds me of the day when my dear neighbour along with her cousin and cousin's friend and friend's children came to my place to watch the cricket match with the reason that their tv set was not working.(the actual reason being the delicious smell of pakodas from our kitchen).Pathan hit a sixer and my neighbours cousins friend screamed at once "what a 'confidential' shot !" I laughed my lungs out when later on I came to know that he meant to say 'confident shot' .
Ok now, the Indish phrases like 'akhri ke end mein' , 'round circle ke paas' are not new to us.Yes, english is a crazy language but this Indish Angrezi can at times, make you go crazy!!!!!!!!

34 comments:

Rose said...

~Smiles~

Actaully i think a person shudnt be judged bcoz of the lack of his/her command over the english language.. Coz diff ppl cum frm diff circumstances.. But yes.. When ppl try using glorified words wjst to show off without hav'n a clue as to wat they r sayn can be highly annoying..

:)

..Me

Anonymous said...

Haha! I remember some one saying Britteesh eyezless (yes British Isles).

eT said...

>>Yes, english is a crazy language but this Indish Angrezi can at times, make you go crazy!!!!!!!!

I completely agree with you, and btw thanks for visiting my blog.
Regards

its me said...

hahahah.. so very true.. even we tend to use such "phrases" sometinmes...
isnt is really funny to use such words some times...

ketki said...

@rose,
hi! I too agree wth u that a person cannot be judged from his llanguage!

ketki said...

@ Babumoshai'
thanx a ton for the comment

ketki said...

@ Atlantean,
"british eyezless"!!!!?????
I mean thats really funny!
thanxxxx 4 the comment!

Manish Kumar said...

Ha ha ha really funny!
Reminded me of my post about a bengali gentleman trying to use Hindi in my office...result was similar like confidential:) sixer of Irfaan.
Language Blues...

Thx for visiting my blog :)

Siddharth Razdan said...

Indish Angrezi...Sounds interesting.

Regards
(Siddharth Razdan)

Siddharth Razdan said...

Anyway...You have a nice command over the language, I must say.

Regards
(Siddharth Razdan)

rachana said...

hi ketaki.
u write so well.keep it up!
all the v best to u....

ketki said...

@sidharth razdan,
"
U have a good command over language"
thanx for the compliment!

ketki said...

@rachana,
thanxxxxxxxx!!!!!!!!!!
ur comment is a real booster for me!

Anonymous said...

:)a good writen post

ketki said...

@ sushant,
thanx a quintal bro

Ajj Kaim Singh said...

nice articles.
Keep Blogging!

Dh@v@! said...

Gr8 post buddy….

Will add some incidents here…
The other day somebody asked me what is your “myel yid” I asked “wht?” you won’t believe he wanted to ask my “Mail Id”

Tumhara post padhke muje Bachhan ka ye dialogue yaad aa gaya…
“I can talk in English, I can walk in English, because English is a very funny language”

Rose said...

Hey, u stil lost in the quagmire of crazy angrezi ???

:D

..Me

ketki said...

@rose,
hope come out of the crazy angrezi quagmire say by 2morrow or the day after with something more intersting!
thanx for adding one more smile to my blog!

ketki said...

"myel yid" thats really funny!
:)

ketki said...

@ pvs'
thanx 4 the comment!

suraj sharma said...

LOL...seriously, very funny. Thanks for stopping by on my blog and appreciating the poem. Loved the way you write too!

starry said...

Nice post, had a good laugh. you have a sense of humor. thanks for visiting my blog and come again.

Anonymous said...

Nice observations ketki...My mom(seema niljikar) from nasik is highly impressed by ur writings..keep posting these intersting facts...Samir & Smruti Niljikar

Ashish Gupta said...

hehe! I love Hinglish ;)

and thanks for visiting me :)

Sirius Black said...

lolz@ Confidential shot
nice blog :)

ketki said...

@ Samir bhaiya,
thanx a lot for ur million$ comment.
liked the books u've sent!
i must say u have a very gud taste for books!
:)

ketki said...

@ surajm sharma,
thanx 4 readin' my blog!
:)

ketki said...

Thanx 4 the "very original" comment!
:)

ketki said...

@ ashish gupta,
thanx!
@ sirius black,
thanx a lot!

Known Stranger said...

Indians have a lot of humour sense. dont you know that. with no humour what is the meaning of having life every day

Somya said...

lol...good post...but things get really embarassing when these wid great angrezi try to compliment you and make it all the more funnier for other and leave you blushing and wishing that you could strangle this person.

Gaurav Varma said...

thank god it was verginal and not va(r)ginal..he he..ok bad joke but cudnt resist the bait..nice post though!

Pritika Gupta said...

liked it :)