Memon Pride

[sixpakistan]

Originally Posted by clarity_muslimah

You know, I can understand some of this Memon lingo - it has some resemblance of my almost-punjabi dialect.

"Theek ai" is something I hear day to day...

Which dialect is that? Memoni and Punjabi are lexically/grammatically pretty similar.

Originally Posted by Rain

aiynki ki aiy....theek ai?

aaoun theek aaya. tu kee aaye? tu asaan ji boli kidha thi sikhe ai..?

[Rain]

ok, here's one i heard an old lady say: hiii kapro bo saro ai..cotton jo ai

[clarity_muslimah]

[quote=sixpakistan;240818]Which dialect is that? Memoni and Punjabi are lexically/grammatically pretty similar. QUOTE]

Well...Kashmiri?

Mein theek taak-ah!

[sixpakistan]

Originally Posted by Rain

ok, here's one i heard an old lady say: hiii kapro bo saro ai..cotton jo ai

'this fabric/clothing is very nice. it's of cotton'

[Rain]

Originally Posted by sixpakistan

aaoun theek aaya. tu kee aaye? tu asaan ji boli kidha thi sikhe ai..?

aiy theek ai. by going to loads of "khatams" with my memon friends. aw bo katham me viye ne hida si siki ya

I speak Gujerati and so I find it easy to understand memon, it's just the actual sentence construction that I struggle with.

[sally]

Originally Posted by Rain

aiy theek ai. by going to loads of "khatams" with my memon friends. aw bo katham me viye ne hida si siki ya

I speak Gujerati and so I find it easy to understand memon, it's just the actual sentence construction that I struggle with.

I decided that I kind of fail at understanding Gujarati..I thought I did..then I hung out with some hardddddddcore Gujju speakers and got lost. The ones who speak a watered down version of it are easily understandable

And that would actually be, 'aaoun kaafi khatam mai vees ne uda se sikees'

And lol@typical Memon 'khatams'

[TariqBinSleepin]

minji neendi aanji, kinji sonji mainji?

[sally]

Originally Posted by TariqBinSleepin

minji neendi aanji, kinji sonji mainji?

Big fat HUH

[TariqBinSleepin]

Originally Posted by sally

Big fat HUH

Don't you PEOPLE add 'inji' 'winji' after every word >.>"
And I thought I had cracked the code to Memoni <.<

[caffienetime]

Originally Posted by sally

Isn't my distant rishtedaars sister still my distant rishtedaar?

yes she is but i didnt want you to think of the wrong distant rishtedar

Originally Posted by TariqBinSleepin

minji neendi aanji, kinji sonji mainji?

Originally Posted by TariqBinSleepin

Don't you PEOPLE add 'inji' 'winji' after every word >.>"
And I thought I had cracked the code to Memoni <.<

LOL!!!!!!! hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha

[Rain]

Originally Posted by TariqBinSleepin

Don't you PEOPLE add 'inji' 'winji' after every word >.>"
And I thought I had cracked the code to Memoni <.<

that's what i thought in my days of ignorance. I'd be like, inji minji akni ni khapeti...

sally, i find gujerati and memon really similar, it's why i can listen to memon and understand what is being said...again, it's just actually speaking it myself that is difficult.

[sally]

Originally Posted by Rain

that's what i thought in my days of ignorance. I'd be like, inji minji akni ni khapeti...

sally, i find gujerati and memon really similar, it's why i can listen to memon and understand what is being said...again, it's just actually speaking it myself that is difficult.

I phail. I've been known to stare into Gujju speakers faces with a huge WTF on my face Also I've protested to a few many times about how 'I don't get you' and been ignored.

But the ones who speak slowly are more understandable...

[caffienetime]

Originally Posted by Rain

that's what i thought in my days of ignorance. I'd be like, inji minji akni ni khapeti...

sally, i find gujerati and memon really similar, it's why i can listen to memon and understand what is being said...again, it's just actually speaking it myself that is difficult.

i live in a gujju surrounded neighborhood. and i talk to them in broken gujju...

"keim choh? majama choh?"

[sally]

The funniest exchange occurred between this one crazy fast hardcore Gujju speaker neighbor of ours..an elderly woman who wears saris on a regular basis (and I mean, even during her evening strolls on the street...rather comical, bless her)

Anyway she was talking to me..I think I've mentioned before..she thinks just because my dad is well versed in Gujarati, so are my mom and myself...and she does NOT understand that I don't possess the level of comprehension anywhere near my dad, much less speak it.

So...during one of our one sided painfully lengthy conversations (one of many might I add) I decided I would change the one sidedness once and for all. I decided to respond to her in my (very broken) Memoni.

So it was like

Hardcore Gujju speaker + Broken Memoni speaker = (Without the smile)

It made for lots of funnyness and frustration... Esp when I complimented her saari...

"Ainjhe saari bau saari ai" (translation: your saari is very nice)

Thereafter she kept repeating the word saari. I think she was either saying she didn't understand what I just said, or she got saari and saari confused, or she was noticing the similarities in our languages?

Nobody knows..........to this day

[Anderson]

Originally Posted by Rain

aiy theek ai. by going to loads of "khatams" with my memon friends. aw bo katham me viye ne hida si siki ya

I speak Gujerati and so I find it easy to understand memon, it's just the actual sentence construction that I struggle with.

I go to loads of khatams too, try this one - mikeh boaj akhni kehni ain, akni mikeh diyoh.