The YENDIAN YENGLISH BUGGER!!
English, it’s more than just a language. It’s the American style, with the desi tadka!
From ‘hi yaar’, to ‘cho-chweet’, it jus our outright way of pouring our emotions into the language. Simply put it's, “how you??”, "where you go?" How u did your paper?
Or it may be just the accent, “I have big ‘hole’ (hall) in house”, “watchya doing ya?” but sometimes when this yenglish, gets twisted, as in... ”I saw a kangaaaroo on tv yesterday it was sho louvlii..” ,I totally loose track.
But, our colloquial accent is so affluently rich…especially with our regional words coming in that…”left tako, right tako”, “what a faadu paper”, or “yo macha wats up?” just doesn’t seem wrong at all.
And sometimes, by twisting the English …as in ”chillax!!” , or “puahleeiij”, “your such a dumbo”, it ends up making us look cool!
And the biggest source of these blunders are our very own teachers,”take your seats and sit down”, or “I will slap you whether she is a boy or he is a girl”, I think they make their trademark with these lines.
let me give in a little secret(which some of you may know), the “cheater cheater…you are a bloody cheater”, which we say all so very proudly and loudly, well the word ”cheater” does not exist..its ‘cheat’! With painter, liar, builder in such vast usage…I wouldn’t be surprised when very soon…’drawer’ comes into existence.
The rj’s have a ball with our almost perfect accent, and have shows so proudly dedicated to it, like ‘life in Bangalore with rajni saar’, or even ‘chamrajpet charles’, just leave us with bubbles of giggles, but the truth is, that’s truly, the ‘yendian yenglish’.
With more twisted additions to our all so very twisted yenglish each day, we are soon going to proudly present to the world…”yenglish2”- the yendian way!
-Taniya
Its Indian English yaar!!
A typical English conversation with me would include a couple of Kannada, a couple of Hindi words, and on some occasions some ‘rasss’ thrown in.
I love our Indian English, with its barbaric pronunciation to ending certain sentences with the word ‘ONLY’. Yes Indian English is like that ‘only’!! . I have forever admired the shape that the English language took in the sub continent. Shakespeare gave the English language ‘assassin’ and we gave the English language masala . I don’t mean the word masala, but the spice added onto the language!
The masala in the language, apart from the clichéd ‘appu’ (read homer Simpson’s perspective) accent, includes many ingredients, A typical Hello equivalent of English could translate to, wats up ‘maga’! How are you ‘da’ ! Howz it going ‘BA’! On occasions we have the Indian English version of English words too, for instance, why has this ‘bugga’ chosen such a topic, would be a typical example. Why are my exams not over ‘ONLY’?
The language has had many influences, India as a diverse nation, has had diverse effects on the language. The tamilian equivalent of dude, ra, telgu da, Kannada maga.
And let’s not ‘porget’ the Pronunciation parts, the extended ss. Why ‘sss’ the word round! wats the ‘myatter’ with you. ‘ Thaa’ world is not flat. The mix up of the singular and the plurals, ‘I have 2 chidrens both of they are girls! ‘. ‘The hairs on my hand are standing ups ‘.
With the Indian version of the language, we have had our revenge on the English .after centuries rule coming to an end, we finally ‘haves’ victory. ‘Downs’ with the queen!
The Indian English is here to stay , and i say i love Indian English .Lets ‘celebrates’ this victory! make your comments in Indian English . So say it proudly maga , we are heres to stay and stays we wills !!
