Tower of Babel

good writing.

i spent 11 months in hyderabad last year, what an amazing city.

dakhni is quite gorgeous and so is hyderabad`s hobson jobson. burcus for barracks and so on.

didn`t meet many of my fellow gujjus though -- and good thing too.

aakar

what a sweet treat...after suffering half a day from homer syndrome...:-)

I once shared a train compartment for one night and one day with a family consisting of mother, son, daughter-in-law and little child. For the entire journey, even through the night, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law carried on this amicable but absolutely unending conversation(in Gujarati)! I still think the man-in-the-middle in that picture of domestic harmony as extremely lucky :-), but was I plenty groggy the next day!

Sadhana

hi again !!!

i don`t know if this shair is relvent to this article or not but just came in my mind ....

Har baat pe kehtey hu key tu kya hai ...

tumhi kahu key yeah andazey guft-a-gu kya hai

guess transaltion will make it more irrelevent !!

have fun !!!

p.s my only encounter with parsi accent was with my 9th grade tution teacher

`` chokra apni book mein dekho yeah window key bahir bar bar kya dekhta hai ``

lol

nice article shehla

i had similar lingual problems as we were the only family living in karachi while all of my cousions lived in lahore ....

and on our summer vications at lahore every one laugh at when we speak like ``tere ko kya hai ``

and suddenly some one from behind will get us correct ``tere ku `` nahin ``tumhein`` ``merray ko`` nahin ``mujhey`` or when i start my sentece with ``abey`` and we just see them laughing histerically making us wonder what we said wrong cause it was a normal way of talking at school ....

and coming back to khi and get back to school make our class fellow laugh at us cause in 2 month summer vication we have adopted some of lahore lingual words which are alien in khi ......

any way nice article

p.s plz hate me too as u hate choclate and children

thanks and bye

Above all else, you do not have any problems
with your command of English.
Wonderful writing!
Hope to read more of your work on CHOWK.

Ras

Temporal: CHOWK may have found another quality
writer here.

a very interesting piece..very original..

regards,

TM.

Shehla:

Verrrrrry Verrry nice indeed.

No tower of babel your household shehlah,it is the place where everybody understands everybody better because of this tremendous asset.

Certain lines are really superb! Like the ``jhankar`` version of gujrati etc etc.This original and culturally entrenched english is what we need.I believe that our cultural aromas like massalaas,agarbattis,rose waters,kewras,chundans,lobaans must seep through the english language .

More later.



This is just for laughs & not a comment on the article.I hope you`ll savour it Shehla.

...........

``Lagay munh bhee chiranay,daitay daitay galian sahib

Zubaan bigri thhee so bigree,khubar leejay dehun bigraa``.

Momin khan Momin(but not sure)

(difficult to translate)

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A lovely piece of writing.

umer

well written Shehlah. Very amusing.

If I were to pick the two dialects that lend themselves the best to commedy... they would be Hydrabadi & Parsi (just look at all the slap-stick roles in desi movies). My brother-in law is a Hydrabadi & my wife a Parsi so I have first hand knowledge of this.

My 20 month old is growing up tri-lingual and it is absolutely facinating to hear her mix languages.

Keep writing.

Shehlah,

Amusing article. Even more amusing is the little author info blurb at the end:

``Shehlah Zahiruddin manufatures and markets chocolates. She hates both sweets and kids``

-Lyahus

Shehla:

This is fresh, original and insightful!

Keep writing. And welcome to Chowk.

lve,

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