Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Hindi Mein Labo

....says Pattu when I slip in some English words into our conversations in 'Hindi'. Here's a glimpse of Pattu brand of Hindi
As though homework is not painful enough, Pattu insists that we have our homework interactions only in Hindi! So, here we go - me in my broken Hindi and Pattu in her brand of flawless, pure, fluent Hindi:

Amma: Pehle pencil theek se pakdo
Pattu: Barke pencil pakdo karo ke
Amma: Box ke andar likho
Pattu: Karke deko arke box lene ki
Amma: Forgetting Hindi in frustration... You have to write in this box Pattu, not there
Pattu: Darka tum ne friend ke scold karo ke ni barke ni 'pechi kaa' karo ke ni. Karo ke tum?
('Pechi Ka' is 'will not talk to you' in Tamil)
Amma: Theek hai, sorry, tum abhi homework khatam karo
Pattu: Paar ke deko ni tum box kene five kare
Amma: Pattuuu... yahaan, small letters ..
Pattu: Hindi mein labo! 'Small' Hindi ki? Hindi mein labo!
Darka?
Amma: ***Giving up. In splits!

Apparam yeppadiyo labo labonnu homework oru vazhiya mudichom!
(Finally we finshed homework 'labo-ing' in Hindi)

26 comments:

bitsofchocolate said...

ROFL ! Really !

Idha record panni audio clips blogla podavum

Jayashree said...

ROFL....

artnavy said...

i think anush will follow this pattuhindi brilliantly! she does the same....

Unknown said...

hahahahahahah.. fell off my chair.. Pattu = cuteness, Pattu speaking in Hindia= cuteness raised to the power of infinity..
(ajcl)
Was wondering where you had gone off (so did another friend who reads u regularly).. glad u r back and whatta post..

Asha said...

OMG, How did you remember them?. Absolutely hilarious. Post sema joliya irundadhu.

Unknown said...

LOL. U should patent this dialect of hindi. abs adorable. How do u even understand it??

Shankari said...

ROFL! I second Art, Na would totally understand this brand of hindi. She talks the same way too :) Maybe we should let Anush,Pattu and Na discuss the world's affairs in hindi and just watch from the sidelines. We might learn a thing or two or die of laughter trying to! :)

Hema said...

LOL! How did you manage to hold that long?? BTW, done the tag. I was unable to post a comment here for a while (technically that is!)

Anonymous said...

That was so cute of her :)
Enjoyed your conversation.

Anonymous said...

Along with the conversation, the way you ended the post - "labo lobonnu" made me enjoy more

utbtkids said...

I just swallowed my tea through my nose.
Ha ha ha ha.
I was thinking labo labo kathindu HW-a? and you said it.
Hilarious. Cute. Patient, you I mean. If they have to finish their milk and are doing monkey business, I don't even smile, leave alone talking in a different language....).

Uma said...

PV - when I have the recorder handy, the conversation doesn't prolong...and most often, it occurs as a post event thought

Jayashree- :)

Art, Shankari - Am sure they'll understand each other better :D

A - Was a bit tied up... We all had a good laugh that day :D

Asha - This is just a small snippet that I've tried to recreate. The entire conversation lasted 30 mins!

Shruti - You said it - it is a new dialect indeed :D

Hema - Vera vazhiye illa...had to hold...
Hoppin off to yours to check the tag :)

Anonymous - So much 'labo' happened, it seemed the best way to end the post :D

utbt - Am not really gifted with patience, but Pattu leaves me with no choice sometimes. If I get annoyed and yell, she'll spend the next 20 mins crying!

Dee said...

It is so cute to see kids speak in a language that they don't know and want to speak it so badly.
My kids love to speak Tamil and it is very cute to see them try it..
esp. they try to add the -la and -a endings as much - adhula, car-la and it makes us smile and don't have the heart to correct it :-)

H said...

Pattu's Hindi is so hilarous :). Dhruv went through that phase when we visited Bombay...we all had such a good laugh.

Anonymous said...

Ha ha..
could not enjoy this post of yours especially bcoz i dont follow hindi.
in case you wonder,the above ha ha is for ;labo laboing; end that you have given.

Swaram said...

ROFL. This is absolutely adorable :)

Preeti said...

Oh man... I had tears in my eyes with all the laughing...waiting for my little girl to come up with some gems like this soon...

Lavanya Sriram said...

ROFL :) ROFL :) ROFL :).. does that say enuf :) I still have tears in my eyes :) fundoo stuff :)
am so sorry that i missed it that day:( u should really really really record it !

Pooh! said...

Cute is all I can say!

lostworld said...

Hilarious!!! Thank God you don't blog/comment in this newly developed Hindi else we'll all have to take tuitions from your daughter !! :-D

Vidya said...

Uma, why did you do this to me?!! I have had at least half a dozen people looking at me (at work place)like I've gone crazy. I have been literally ROTFL!!

The Print Lover said...

Tu itni (or kitni?) cute hai Pattu! Saara blog readers ko tummy ache de diya.

Uma: pls continue this series. I am gonna book mark this post to read if I ever feel down. Soooo adorable :)

Uma said...

Deepa - True... it does sound very cute :) And you are right - I just don't feel like correcting the 'labo' :D

Hema - Really? Wondering how Dhruv's Hindi would have been - especially with that aussie accent ;)

Ambulisamma - Oh, you don't have to understand hindi to understand pattu's hindi :D

Swaram - :D

Preeti - Oh she will..and do post it when it happens :)

Pooh - :)

Lostworld - :D I'll have to tell Pattu to do that

Vidya - :D ..I'll add a warning next time...

TPL - Where have you been? She is labo-ing something as I'm typing this, in fact... :D

Mana said...

hehe.. nice conversation. :)

Uma said...

Manasa - :) and Welcome here!

Priya said...

:D Came over from Chotus...
I was laughing to myself all through the conversation.. but just about managed to not burst out at your last line in Tamil :)