so ‘Whats your Good name’ and ‘Passing out from college’ are alien to English people? :hmmm:
English Phrases Used Only By Indians Which The World Knows Nothing About
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I don't think so Indians speak like that.
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These are even common in Pakistan.
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In our home, we still say cheshew for cashew. Based on a grocery store aisle label.
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Indian : Please close AC.
American: Please turn off AC.
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Indian: please turn off the door
American: please close the door
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Please shut the door… :cobra:
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After passing the hookah
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When your table clock alarm started ringing ...
Indian: Alarm came on
American: Alarm went off
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"Biggning"
American: Beginning
"Divilry"
American: delivery
Indian: jeera, jindagi, jaroori
Pakistani: Zeera, zindagi, zaroori (Alhumdolillah)
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Indian jadoo
Pakistani Zadoo
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Pakistani Alhumdulillah
Indian Guruvayurappa
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Tell me why Indians never say “janjeer” ..at least I haven’t heard it. Why is Preity never called Preity Jinta? That only shows that you can manage to say zeera and zindagi and zaroori correctly. 
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Pakistani: Uff!!!
Indian: Haaay Bhagwaan
Becharay OP ka thread derail ho chuka hai. 
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Decades ago, I think them Indians did say janjeer.
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^And decades later they're still saying jaroori. Chalo..aik masla to hal hua.
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Uff!!!
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Indians: Cheta
Pakistanis: Yaad
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some more only known to Indian English (some are common in Pakistan as well)
10 English phrases that make perfect sense to Indians | What Ho!
A comment from the article:
In the army training,there is a passing out parade for cadets who are completing the course.The literal sense is conveyed in the example.That speaks .
Revert is an abomination.I used see it in every letter during my service in the bank.’Only’ is an adverb.Readers Digest long ago gave a sentence to a class of students to be qualified with ‘only’.Say,He slapped me on my face.Use only before every word and get as many meanings.But springs up commonly like ‘you see’,’you know’ and it has given rise to another peculiarity.People have freedom to say,’But me no buts’.Lord Macaulay,I pity you.In your lofty arrogance you said ‘teach these natives our language’.Now BBC has a program called ‘Chosen tongue’.Somewhere I remember to have read the origin of this archaic word ,rather,expression OK.Some captain of a ship gave signals for his vessel to sail ahead on the voyage after he kayoed or ……….Like a radio signal that gives permission.I am not on the firm ground here. What has given Wordsworth inspiration to write an Ode,the word has come to mean communication.And the combination, as said in the example, of revert and intimate is atrocious. Come to needful.This ubiquitous word is the life of all correspondence from my bank.This and revert will be there whether a clerk drafts the letter or the chief does it.Even if the clerk omits them,his chief will bring them back. There are others like What I mean etc etc.
This angst was there even with Richard II. That is why he tells ‘Oh uncle, for heaven ,sake speak noble words’.
Indians took the language from the Englishmen and made it their own.That is why there is a section called Indian English.
Let me round it off with an anecdote from R.K.Narayan’s ‘My dateless diary’. In it, Narayan doesn’t turn up for a party an American lady hosts.His friend ,again a lady,tells this American that he he has developed fever and hence could not come.This gave fodder to the American host for a long time to ask Narayan,’So you developed fever.Does anyone develop fever?’.
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Indians: Cheta Pakistanis: Yaad
Cheta is a Punjabi word hence there in both Pakistan and India...similarly Yaad is a Hindi/Urdu word...