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A Kind of English
Ankita Kashyap@ankita.kashyap
Dec 28, 2007 05:10 PM, 3266 Views
(Updated Dec 28, 2007)
Hinglish : Language of globalization

I am writing this just to convey that we indians are going to rock with a tool called **Hinglish.....


*Please IGNORE THE CATGORY here......


I wanted to convey something but I was not able to find any such Category on MS.... so opted for this...........


Arre yaar!!!!!!!  What the hell is Hinglish??? To me Hinglish is a new language although it basically is a "Masala" of two languages - Hindi and English.Hinglish, combination of two words Hindi and English.Where to make one sentence we need to use words of  Hindi and English together.


Like:  Wannna have some Chai!!!!!!!!


How it sounds, GR8?


I have hazar problems?


Hey! Slowly slowly jana….


This is more commonly seen in urban and semi-urban centers of India, but is slowly spreading its root into rural and remote areas via television and word of mouth, slowly achieving popular status. Many speakers do not realize that they are incorporating English words into Hindi sentences or Hindi words into English sentences.


Hinglish is already the medium for imparting education in many schools across the nation. The popularity  of cable television is spreading it like anything. Another MAJOR factor contributing to the spread of Hinglish is the popularity of Bollywood films. Recent Examples :  Chak De India and Jab we met!


Advertisements are also taking advantage of popularity of this language.


Pepsi, for instance, has given its global "Ask for more" campaign a local Hinglish flavor: "Yeh Dil Maange More" (the heart wants more). Not to be outdone, Coke has its own Hinglish slogan: "Life ho to aisi" (Life should be like this).


Domino’s Pizza, which offers Indian curiosities such as the chicken tikka pizza, asks its customers "Hungry kya?" (Are you hungry?), and McDonald’s current campaign spoofs the jumbled construction of Hinglish sentences with its campaign, "What your bahana is?" (Bahana means excuse, as in, "What’s your excuse for eating McDonald’s and not home-cooked food?")


It’s also the language of globalization. There are more English-speakers in India than anywhere else in the world - and satellite television, movies and the Internet mean that more and more people in the sub-continent are exposed to both Standard English and Hinglish.


Indians have no doubt got their language embedded into English but in doing so they have also made their language (at least spoken one) ’corrupt’. You would see more and more of younger generation speaking English rather than their mother tongue (which could be one of the hundreds of languages India has)….. Then Their English is getting influence from that language…. And the result is HINGLISH.


Now, The most popular language to send SMS: Reply *Jaldi!


An article in Times Of India: “ Hinglish ” will soon become the most commonly spoken form of the language globally, a leading British language expert has predicted… Then off course Hinglish will ROCK!!!!!!

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