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Amitabh Bachchan, the ‘Shahenshah’ of Bollywood and a deep connoisseur of language and literature, often shares interesting and informative stories with his fans through social media. This time Big B’s heart has fallen on that special linguistic skill of Indians, in which they give a very simple and fun ‘desi’ form to difficult English words as per their convenience and local accent. Recently, when faced with some such unique words, the megastar could not stop laughing and praised this creative art. Amitabh Bachchan told how this style of Indians not only gives a new color to the language, but it is also very enjoyable.
From ‘Ready Water’ to ‘Sarbari’: When Big B came across a unique form of words While mentioning this interesting linguistic change on social media, Amitabh Bachchan gave examples of some selected words. He told how some people call the English word ‘Radiator’ as ‘Ready Water’ in their native style. Technically speaking, the job of the radiator is to keep the engine cool through water in the vehicle, hence the term ‘ready water’ describes its function accurately. Similarly, when they heard the luxury car ‘Sharbari’ or ‘Sharbadi’, they were surprised that it was actually the Indian version of the famous British car brand ‘Chevrolet’. The ease with which these big and complex English words were adapted into the local color impressed Big B immensely.
The megastar was impressed by the Indian talent who transformed English words into desi style. Amitabh Bachchan, famous for his unmatched Hindi and brilliant dialogue delivery, has always been a big supporter of folk languages and linguistic diversity. He wrote in his post that this is not just a wrong pronunciation of words, but it reflects our unique thinking and creativity through which we make every foreign thing completely our own. Big B admitted that when these words become a part of common conversation, a different kind of sweetness and familiarity is felt in them. He expressed happiness over how people use these words without any hesitation and this is the real beauty of our culture.
Funny reactions of fans and linguistic discussions intensify on social media As soon as this post of Amitabh Bachchan came out, his fans also flooded the social media with comments. Fans are continuously sharing examples of many such interesting Desi-English words used in their respective fields. Some people are telling stories of ‘Cigarette’ being written as ‘Shirgut’, ‘Hospital’ being written as ‘Aspatal’ and ‘Emergency’ being written as ‘Marjansi’. This post of Big B has given rise to a very healthy and entertaining debate on the internet. Fans say that this quality of the megastar makes him different from everyone else that he finds happiness even in the smallest and grassroots level things and expresses it openly in front of the whole world.