Funny English

Happy Holi (belated)

Yesterday night, I saw Outsourced on Star Movies. Recently, Star Movies have started to show Indian themed movies. This was my second such movie (watched The Namesake a month back). Outsourced was your typical Hollywood’s outlook on India and outsourcing. Like most of such movies, this one too was a comedy movie. Most of the humor is based on Indian people ... especially their accent and lack of Americanized English knowledge. There were couple of scenes which just had me in splits ... like the one where the protagonist (Todd ... everyone calls him Toad ... even the driver holds a placard at the airport with Mr. Toad written on it ... ahahaha) goes out of the house on Holi (obviously he didn’t knew about it) ... some kids throws color on him and his office colleague (named Puro) comes to his rescue. He says ... you should not have ventured out on the day of Holi ... and the protagonist answers ... Holy what .... Ahahaha ... I laughed so hard that I almost woke up the entire neighborhood. The other scene which made me laugh my arse off was the climax scene where Todd wishes Puro best of luck (Puro is going to China for training the workforce there) ... Todd tells him ... break a leg ... Puro asks what does that phrase mean ... Todd explains to him that he is wishing him well ... to which Puro replies ... I wish you break both your legs while going back to US ... ahahahahaha ... hilarious !!!

I know that stuff like this seems very filmy ... but believe me it is not the truth. You may be wondering that how can an educated BPO guy didn’t know about “break a leg” ... I know of few people myself ... who are well educated ... working in IT (in fact they are in US right now) ... and still their lack of English knowledge is outright funny. Lemme quote few of hilarious nuggets of one particular person ... I won’t name the person I’m talking about ... but for writing sake lemme call him MadMax.

• MadMax calls his Mocha ... MoCHA


• Whenever he doesn’t understand anything, instead of saying “What’s that” ... he says “Wassup”


• Instead of saying ... we are going for shopping ... he always says ... we are going for PURCHASING. In fact, many people terms shopping as purchasing ... ahahahaha ... just like calling a wallet ... purse


• Once MadMax referred Barista as a pastry shop


• Once MadMax and a gal pal were just hanging around ... they saw a person wearing cool shades ... the gal pal says ... “Nice shades” ... to which MadMax said ... “Yeah good colors ... yellow and green ... (he was refereeing to that guy’s T shirt). Obviously, the gal pal stopped hanging with him after that .... Ahahahahaha ... Deadly !!!