Language is a very very strange thing. Especially Indian languages. Some of the words of a language will be similar to a word that means something else in another language. I hadn’t really understood the full extent of this until I came to Hyderabad. I got to hear so many words here that would mean something very different, and sometimes scandalous, in another language. Randi- Hold your dirty mind. Let me first translate. ‘Ra’ in Telugu means ‘Come’. ‘Andi’ is used as a term of respect. So ‘Randi’ loosely translates to ‘Please come’. Now put (1) and (2) together. Say it out loud. You get what I’m saying about ‘scandalous’? The first time my friend Arun heard this, “Reppu randi”, he was so shocked, he couldn’t speak for a while, which is a record in itself. Then he thought, “What a disgusting place! They discuss so openly about raping! I have GOT to get to know these people better!” Ok, maybe that last bit is not true. (In case you haven’t got it yet, ‘Randi’ in Hindi means ‘whore’) But it didn’t stop there. There were some other gems too.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:23:12 +0000
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