#hindy mad

[theinfinitedivides]

'i don't care how you do it, but i want that pearl back. otherwise, i'll have to recover the value by selling Saima.' — ep 1 - the queen of heeramandi | heeramandi, 2024, dir. sanjay leela bhansali.

[padfootastic]

there’s a term (word?) in hindi that goes—satyavachan. it’s basically like ‘truer words have never been spoken’. i would like to use it for ur ask lmao.

(i also think james would spit on him or perhaps lightly kick him, for being a source of distress for sirius)

[marvelousyt7]

[burningfaith]

first homework for ancient languages in scientific terminology and I need to learn how to pronounce words in Latin, I hate it here </4 I mean what did I expect from my major (more things related to managing information & administration, but whatever), but the most annoying thing is the fact that we have more semesters of useless classes like philosophy than the literal (ethno)linguistics and philology majors...

GIVE ME MORE DATABASES, EXCEL AND STUFF LIKE THIS INSTEAD OF THAT CRAP

[quartermoonconvergence]

gotta be honest here if u rationalise max’s parent characterisation as “indians who don’t know english” i do not want u here

[kaiserkisser]

guys my mom. Is forcing me to attend 6 hrs of coaching the day before the exams of eng and hindi and expecta me to get above 90 in both

[rosefulmadness]

bro why are languages so hard like come on now I just wanna be able to communicate

with friends? with family? with my roots? all of them THAT'S A LOT OF LANGUAGES WITH THEIR OWN ALPHABETS there's never enough time

[satturn]

well do you have the exact same song on your wrapped 3 times?

[nablah]

mostly when i feel unjustified about my hate for the marcoses and my yearning for justice for their victims (after all, i wasnt born in their time. i have not been actively harmed by them. i live on the margins of their policies and laws), i think that i am doing this for my father. my father who talks about martial law just to talk about martial law. who talks about missing popeye after they declare it. whose father, a musician and cd salesman, disappeared for a day and then some after going bowling. i am thinking of the child who could not study his own language because of how the educational system was restructured, the child who waited for his father his family thought dead and saw him coming home, sweaty beaten and half naked after being detained. i am thinking of the young man who snuck out to the snap elections and wrote "cory" despite knowing what would happen. the young man who could not afford his university schooling but who walked to edsa and back to be there, to raise a hand and sing a song despite his own classmates gone into the night. i am thinking of the son who applies for philippine citizenship when he sees taiwan form its own dictator. he escapes while his siblings do not. i am thinking of the middle aged man who now sees his child attending the same university, who also carries memories of his father, the grandfather she never met. he is thinking of how he can keep this little child safe. i am thinking of the man who is orphaned the day marcos announces his decision to run for president, who is alone now but facing the same demons, who has no one who has shared the same burden because his wife was too young and the other ones too old to remember. i am thinking of the man who stays up with his daughter* (who is every bit as idealistic as he was, who chooses a discipline that will kill her one day) when the results come out and she cries from the weight of memory while he jokes and smiles, it will pass. with the blares of ang bagong lipunan, where he is both child and father again, while his father remains dead. he is quiet and his hands shake. i am thinking of how he is quiet after he shares these stories, again and again. he is thinking of how old he is, how long before he too forgets, and he is thinking who can remember (his childhood, his boyhood, his love for popeye, his parents, his language, his classmates, his walk to edsa, his vote in 2021, his child, his story) for him. and then i remember- that's why i remember.

[spohkh]

coworker who im pretty sure is interested in me was watching the front desk for me while i stepped away and when i came back he was talking w someone who im almost certain said "is that her [sic]?" when he saw me. and my coworker looked kind of embarrassed. please for the love of god do not do this

[tiny-pteranodon]

also anon wtf you mean by "im a good person"

youre literally a weirdo berrating kids for speaking their mother tongues just because one of the words has a different meaning in your language (doesn't matter even if they share a common origin)

and youre too scared to show your face so theres that

[theinfinitedivides]

who could win in a fight Salmon's 'arrey music vusic start karo' from Leke Prabhu Ka Naam or Shah Rukh's 'eh. music' from the intro to Not Ramaiaya Vastavaiya. you have ten seconds go

[ano-po]

How aware am I of our National Heroes?

I was about to start my 10:30 class when my students mentioned na the most probable reason why there are only 10 students present is because it's a Holiday.

It's Bonifacio Day, ma'am.

Oh.

[hoperays-song]

Johnny’s Slang

A lot of time when I’m writing, I will alternate between the slang Johnny uses (with the exception of insults, those stay the same). This is mainly due to him having lived in the states nearly half of his life at this point, but also because we don’t see him use it that much in the movies. 

The headcanon that spawned from this? Johnny’s slang usage depends on two things: who he’s with at that moment and his mood.

For example, when he’s around people he’s comfortable with or is really tired or angry, he will use a ton more slang (i.e. mug, kip, lift, chip, crisp, trainers, canny) and will speak Hindi more as well. And in situations of intense emotions or exhaustion, his accent will get noticeably stronger, sounding closer to his dad’s.

Otherwise, Johnny will typically keep his slang to the absolute minimum he can, as well as limiting his use of Hindi, so to not draw that much attention to himself until he’s more comfortable with the situation.

[businesstiramisu]

yeah bread bread is some ignorant white people bullshit, indian people would never do the reverse /s

['ladi pav' does seem to be a more common name for that kind of bread roll than 'pav roti' -- and "ladi" is NOT pleonasm -- but OTOH plenty of monolingual english speakers just call this "naan" without pleonasm]

[hah and according to wikipedia in Indonesia its often called "naan roti". Pleonasm! It's everywhere! see also people saying "ink pen" because they have the PIN-PEN merger]

ohh my god naan bread means bread bread? people are adopting a foreign word next to a general noun of their own language to specify they mean a distinct type that hails from that particular foreign country? no way man. do you have strong feelings on the word moist by any chance

[hatsampixie]

Been lookin' into more Hindi cartoons as of recently, and decided to check out Golmaal Jr, a show based on the film franchise 'Golmaal' of the same name.

Decided to draw Marvin interacting with one of the villains from the cartoon. Pandu, he acts really snake-like and is quite mischievous, to the point he steals and even attempts to steal people's businesses..

When it comes to snakes, sometimes you gotta channel your inner honey badger. XD