Posted on October 6, 2004 17:25 PM EST
Unlike English, most Indian slang and expletives cannot be picked up by simply watching movies. One has to spend time on location - market place, construction sites, play grounds, college/highschool campus - in order to truly know the local slang and expletives.
Consequently native expletives are more potent than English ones. One is kinda used to and indifferent towards English expletives. I mean, imagine someone exclaiming "s*hit" in a native Indian language in public! It would sound very bad and degenerate. Yes, this same word is so commonplace in English among people of all types.
I am not much into using expletives myself. But I like to know them for their entertainment value. Since it is hard to know the Indian expletives without spending time on location, I think a book about Indian expletives might sell well. How about publishing a humorous coffee book of Indian expletives?
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