Its been so long since I came to Hyderabad and I had to write a post on the wonderful language mixture that is spoken out here. For all the Telgu speaking readers please take no offense in what you are about to read below... these are small anecdotes which I shared with the people I spend time with...
The first day my sister steps into the college for admission the peon welcomes them with a smile and says to them " randi kurchandi", the shock on my parents face is too obvious and the peon fails to understand the reason for the distraught reaction. Actually what he innocently meant was for them to sit down but poor my parents, ignorant of the language used here thought the peon used " randi" as in punjabi which actually means a whore.. Imagine their sense of relief when they found out what the peon meant and this joke still somehow manages to make us tickle with laughter.
The other thing in this place is the way they use Hindi here... Gosh it is sooooo gooooood that anyone with proper knowledge of Hindi will either get bugged or laugh his ass off depending on his temprament. " Main tere ko pakad ke maregi" to " kya kar re le mamu tum loga"..... At first instant it mesmerizes me to see that how easily they can scramble up such a unique language and bring it up in this way.... Then slowly I too get pretty used to it and the words "re" and "da" just seem to start mingling with my sentences until i'm brought back to my original Hindi dictionary after an ocassional talk with my friend at Delhi where proper language is not such an uncommon phenomenon atleast till now!!!!!!!
Anyways I sometimes truly enjoy the way one word can mean such different things in two languages and how these things can spice up your boring life........
I'm loving it and invite all others to experience the same feeling....
till then tc and god bless
