My name is ___ = 'Mera naam ____ hai.' I can see where it would sound like English to a non-speaker...
Yes! I think that was it. Her name was Sonja which is pretty European (don't know if there are any Indian names that sound similar), but it was the "Mera naam" that I think sounded surprisingly like "My name..." At least it sounded more like it than something like, "Je m'appelle."
I'm sitting here with my jaw dropped over your description of Indian languages. Different regions AND different levels of the same language. Wow. It's almost like...the idea that you're more fluent in English and speak it at home because it's easier seems almost like something you'd see in a Hollywood movie and everyone would think was ridiculous. You know, like, "If they're an Indian family why are they speaking Indian?" the way the bad guys in American movies always helpfully speak in accented-English so that the good guys can overhear them.:-) You know, now I think of it I think Anne Frank said her family often spoke English in the annex for a number of reasons.
But your family sounds hysterical, especially with of course everybody forgetting who speaks what. Makes my own loud family gatherings sound like something out of Brideshead Revisited by comparison!
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Date: 2004-12-12 09:06 am (UTC)Yes! I think that was it. Her name was Sonja which is pretty European (don't know if there are any Indian names that sound similar), but it was the "Mera naam" that I think sounded surprisingly like "My name..." At least it sounded more like it than something like, "Je m'appelle."
I'm sitting here with my jaw dropped over your description of Indian languages. Different regions AND different levels of the same language. Wow. It's almost like...the idea that you're more fluent in English and speak it at home because it's easier seems almost like something you'd see in a Hollywood movie and everyone would think was ridiculous. You know, like, "If they're an Indian family why are they speaking Indian?" the way the bad guys in American movies always helpfully speak in accented-English so that the good guys can overhear them.:-) You know, now I think of it I think Anne Frank said her family often spoke English in the annex for a number of reasons.
But your family sounds hysterical, especially with of course everybody forgetting who speaks what. Makes my own loud family gatherings sound like something out of Brideshead Revisited by comparison!