Oh Dubai...
Yes I do love my new home, and one of the things I love about living in this country is learning new languages...like Hinglish. Oh yes boys and girls, at first there was Chinglish and now my friends, I am learning Hinglish, a not so comprehensible mix of Hindi and English. During the course of my day I encounter it countless times, and in fact I have gotten rather good at understanding it 90% of the time. My favorite though, is when you must ask a very nice Indian person to spell out their name/address/email/location etc as you have absolutely no friggin' clue what they are saying due to their strong Indian accent. (Again a little disclaimer here I have many Indian friends. I like them a lot. The fact that some of their countrymen have a bit of a strong accent which I don't always understand does not deter from that and finally please don't sue me!)
So the other day I was on the phone with a nice Indian gentleman talking a mile a minute (as the best part of Hinglish is that it absolutely MUST be spoken a warp speed!!!) and I have to admit I did not understand a word of what he was saying...so I had him give me his email address in hopes that we might possibly understand each other in a nice slow written format!!
He started spelling for me..."yay like yapple (Hinglish for A like Apple!) S like sukar (S like Sugar) "Yiy like Yindia (I like India -haha just got that one-no wonder they say it this way ;) !!) so here I am repeating "yay like yapple" etc, etc, meanwhile drifting off and totally picturing him doing his inevitable classic side to side head bob while he is spelling this out for me when bam...I am slammed back to reality with the next letter "Yen like Yipple...N LIKE NIPPLE!!!!!! whaaaaat??? Seriously, I am not even joking when he busted out "N like Nipple" I just about fell off of my chair! I guess that guy was missing something! "N like Nipple!!!!!" whatever happened to N like November?? Sometimes I wonder here! (okay to be often I often wonder about people here!!)
Well after I recovered from my shock I did manage a good giggle about it, it certainly was the last thing i expected to hear after moving to Dubai! Like I said, I love Dubai, never a dull moment!
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I visited Dubai for business last year. What an amazing country with so much construction.
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hahaahahha. i know and i understand this. all day long, i hear the guy sitting next to me introducing himself on the phone to someone
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