Michael5000 is chatting casually with his co-worker, a young Hindi-speaking woman.
Michael5000: I've been reading a detective novel from India. I'm learning some Hindi words, but I don't think they are very nice Hindi words.
Co-Worker: What do you mean, 'not very nice'?
Michael5000: The characters are all gangsters, so I think they are mostly swearing at each other.
Co-Worker (amused, encouraging): Oh, really? Let's hear an example!
Michael5000: "Chutwa." "Matachod." "Ryundi."
Co-Worker: [gasp!]
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* See also "Teach Yourself Urdu!" (April 2011)
Hee hee.
ReplyDeleteLOL - that's cute. I once had someone tell me that they'd learned some Thai swear words. He said he was with some friends and they'd asked a Thai person to teach them. And that the Thai person had said it was quite rude, so he shouldn't repeat it. I asked him to repeat this offensive word. He did so - and it was a phrase I was intimately familiar with from my time in Thailand: "I don't speak Thai." LMAO!
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