My pal of yesteryears and beyond, Allenbhai the tripewriter gorilla visited here and read the preceding post and rightly reminded me, that apart from those ‘7 expressions’… I also use my down to earth, rustic, dulcet rural sikkimi-nepali expressions that cannot compare to anything… [a la Sinead O’Connor]
APEEEEeeeeeEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee that starts at a normal pitch and goes an octave and a half higher to express my pleasant surprise, utter bafflement, or shock… That’s a favourite.
And then there’s the loud, bass pitch that a guy uses to say
AMMMBOUnnnnnnnnnh [the nnnnnh denoting the resonance that goes with the chant of auuuuuummmmmmmnnnnh]…NOW this expression is actually my MOST favourite one… it beats the crap out of baap-re! Mummy! Arre maaa! … it means MY mother AND my father and must be accompanied by a slap to the forehead. Oh the wonder of hearing this sound at a bursting-to-the-seams Paljor stadium at the height of the Gold Cup Football when a particular agile striker shoots that impossible goal…and everyone goes AAAAAAAAMMMMMBOU
nnnnnnnnnnnnh!!!!!!!!!
And then what better rejoinder than a curt Timro TAUko!!! to some silly idiot who has just made a [obviously] asinine suggestion, proposal, or remark It literally means ‘Your HEAD!!!’
Sunday, March 12, 2006
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2 comments:
dear Francois,
it waz good to the nap (nepali) words on yr blog. did u read siddharth chowdury book - "Patna roughcut?" its all about real patna..the characters did exit onoy names changed.Qoutes:
' A rajput from Ara, Raghunath was builtlikea wrestker and had the bluff blustery ofa boirn bully. After all, " Ara zila ghar ba Ta kuan baat ka dar ba" an aphorism he would repeat ad nauseu m each day a reassuring twril of his of his silken butter-fed musrtache."
Samar Sinha taught me two red haikus...The first one went like this:
Ritwik: Amaar naam
Samir : Tomaar Naam
Ritwik: (stamps his foot and gives the red alute) : Vietnam
Ritwik: Amaar Bari
Samar: Tomaar Bari
Ritwik (stamps his foots and gives the red salute) : Naxalbari.
read teh book.
allenbhai patnawalla.
it is good to read yore nostoligia attikel. I begin to feel like that fella called nostradum who was the hunch back of notradame
from teh tripewriter gorilla
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