Hinglish takes over !

                                   

Picture this scene :

I'm chatting to a young man named Yuvraj Singh

He's a college student in the Indian city of Dehra Dun. We're talking in Hindi.

But every so often there's an English word.

It's Hindi, Hindi, Hindi, and then suddenly an English word or phrase is dropped in

"job", "love story" or "adjust".    ::LOL::

What should we make of this ?

It's not that Hindi lacks equivalent words.

He could have said the Hindi "kaam" instead of "job".

Why mention the English words? And what's Yuvraj speaking ?

Is it Hindi, English, an amalgam "Hinglish", or something else ......... :-[

I was travelling on a train out of Delhi once and a young girl dropped her ice cream

on the carriage floor.

Her mother turned round and reminded her of what she evidently thought was an

appropriate English word:

"Say 'sh!t !' Say 'sh!t'!" ...........she said strictly.  ::LOL::

On a bus that broke down in a remote part of India recently and everyone starting screaming

about the "Stepney". I had no idea at the time, but they remonstrated angrily,

"Of course you know! It's an English word!"

I later found out that "Stepney" means "spare tyre" -

from a Welsh firm that made tyres in the 1910s.    :

"Bollywood is also behind this Englishisation.

A whole range of terms and words used in urban India can be traced back to fashionable films.

Recent releases include "Shaadi ke side effects" (marriage's side effects),

"Main Tera Hero" (I am your hero).

"Love, breakups, zindagi" (love, breakups, life)

                             

"The men spend much of their day in what they called 'timepass' (passing time).

As one young man put it: 'Time has no value in India. We are just passing the time:

hoping something better is round the corner.'"

                     

The rapid growth in mobile phone ownership is another cause.

"Miss call" has become a popular  verb, as in "I will miss call my friend". 

This is done by phoning someone and ringing off quickly before he or she has time to answer.

It lets the person know that you are thinking of them.