English in South Asia is unique. The Hindi, Tamil and other south Asians have developed their own unique idioms that are foreign to Queen English. If you irritate some one by asking too many questions, you 'ate his head'.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/english-goodly-spoken-south-asia-100224365.html
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Ha hA ha!! Eating someone's head is a good one!
Also, something that we used a lot while I was in college (they still say it)
"Dimaag ki dahi mat kar"" literal translation would be - don't make curds out of my brains! :laugh:
[quote]yes, that is true!
Infact we think we perfect English in our 'istyle' but we are killing English the true language
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HA ha ha! Swetha, I would like to call that poetic justice! Murder of english language to avenge murders by British of numerous Indians! :woohoo:
Also, something that we used a lot while I was in college (they still say it)
"Dimaag ki dahi mat kar"" literal translation would be - don't make curds out of my brains! :laugh:
[quote]yes, that is true!
Infact we think we perfect English in our 'istyle' but we are killing English the true language
[/quote]
HA ha ha! Swetha, I would like to call that poetic justice! Murder of english language to avenge murders by British of numerous Indians! :woohoo:
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