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Post by George61 on Sept 24, 2006 12:36:29 GMT 7
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 2, 2006 3:43:18 GMT 7
Question: I see some of the users' names are marked in white. I supposed they are the *goners*. But their threads are gone as well. Is it like an automatic things?
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Post by George61 on Nov 2, 2006 4:14:48 GMT 7
Only if they annoy us!!
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 2, 2006 5:32:41 GMT 7
There were couple good threads. But they are gone along with the annoyers.
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Post by George61 on Nov 17, 2006 2:54:45 GMT 7
Just to put this thread back on track........
Hinglish: Guide offered to rich curry of tongues
November 16, 2006
Hinglish Going doolally? Getting too filmi? Being a bit of a bevakoof?
Welcome to the wonderful world of Hinglish, a rich linguistic curry that stirs together English with Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi.
And now novelist and teacher Baljinder Mahal has provided readers with a guide to this lively hybrid language - a new dictionary entitled The Queen's Hinglish: How To Speak Pukka.
For British Asian families, it is the perfect way to enliven English. On the Indian sub-continent it is a fast developing lingua franca.
"I had so much fun compiling it," Mahal said of the dictionary that stretches from words dating back to the British Raj right up to today's hip advertising slogans.
"Doolally is my favourite word, meaning crazy. It was military slang named after a town near Mumbai called Deolali, which was the location for a sanatorium," she said in an interview to mark publication.
She scoffs at academic linguists who fret over the purity of the English language. "Language is not set in stone. It is fluid and organic. Chaucer's English is not the same as Shakespeare's English," she said.
She is fascinated by the different ways Hinglish has been adopted as one of the fastest growing hybrid languages in the world. "In India it has become quite trendy. The elite speak it, Bollywood speaks it in its films, corporate India speaks it in its advertising slogans," she said.
Children, as linguistic magpies, love to pick it up in the playground as a kind of secret banter that is incomprehensible to adults. "In Britain it has become fashionable, particularly among the young," she said.
The dictionary unveils how this quirky clash of tongues has such choice words as "filmi" meaning melodramatic or "bevakoof", Hinglish for a fool.
Anyone feeling "glassy" is in need of a drink. A hooligan is a "badmash" and if you need to bring that office meeting forward, it is time to "prepone", as opposed to postpone, it.
She said that Hinglish, like the Spanglish spreading across the melting pot that is America, is also a language that underlines the globalisation of India, one of the world's fastest growing economies.
Satellite television, the internet and movies effortlessly spread Hinglish around the world. Mahal, rejoicing in its rapid evolution, said: "Language is never static - just like identity."
And how much Chinglish do you use??
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Post by Ruth on Nov 17, 2006 5:46:17 GMT 7
I sense another Saloon Book Project - the world's first Chinglish dictionary.
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Post by con's fly is open on Nov 19, 2006 17:23:56 GMT 7
We've tried to start one a few times. Maybe we should start another.
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 19, 2006 23:42:25 GMT 7
Oh I just noticed changes: Raoul isnt Raoul anymore. Raoul's salon isn't Raoul's anymore. Members deleting their accounts... Is it about near the end of the world?
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Post by George61 on Nov 20, 2006 1:26:07 GMT 7
Things are indeed afoot!! The front page doesn't quite have the same feel to it.
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Post by Hamish on Nov 20, 2006 6:41:05 GMT 7
It's sunrise in the swamp!
Some things are changing, but the suffering is not over.
We will live on.
As Ruth might say, and here I agree, "Keep The Faith!"
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 20, 2006 11:21:26 GMT 7
Hamish, are you planning on changing your nickname as well? Can we give you suggestions?
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Post by Hamish on Nov 20, 2006 15:39:10 GMT 7
I don't plan to change, but suggest away!
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 20, 2006 18:29:20 GMT 7
Oi. Don't let George see that!
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Post by George61 on Nov 20, 2006 19:45:25 GMT 7
Too late!! I've been listing suggestions all afternoon!! ;D
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Nov 21, 2006 6:47:56 GMT 7
Should we address our Great Helmsman as the Admin formerly known as Raoul?
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 22, 2006 23:04:24 GMT 7
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Post by nolefan on Nov 23, 2006 2:36:47 GMT 7
I offer a round of Nutella Pizzas on the house for whenever A.F.A.R becomes Raoul again...
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Post by George61 on Nov 23, 2006 3:30:42 GMT 7
I offer a round of Nutella Pizzas on the house for whenever A.F.A.R becomes Raoul again... Yukkie Poo!! At least make them Vegemite Pizzas.
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 23, 2006 6:01:02 GMT 7
Half Nutella half Vegemite would do? Each pizza will have an aussie on the other end of it
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Post by con's fly is open on Nov 23, 2006 13:21:20 GMT 7
Half Nutella half Vegemite would do? Each pizza will have an aussie on the other end of it I've read this a dozen times now, and it just keeps getting dirtier.
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 23, 2006 14:51:31 GMT 7
To think of... Since Raoul changed his name, may be con could change his into Uncle Pervie or something
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Post by kcanuck on Nov 23, 2006 16:46:02 GMT 7
Since when is Nutella an Aussie treat? I was sure it was some wonderful Canadian invention. As for vegemite on pizza... tempting as it is, I just can't...you all know, don't you that my colleague here is Vegemite? She obviously hasn't seen this yet.
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Civet Burger? Sounds tempting. Can I get fries with that?
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Nov 23, 2006 23:11:23 GMT 7
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 24, 2006 5:58:46 GMT 7
Of course Half - Half! Do only aussies eat pizza?
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Post by Crippler on Nov 24, 2006 11:02:31 GMT 7
I'll take the half with pussie pepperoni on it!
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