 Look at my shit. All the girls do the thing like this. Yeah. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Da da dee da. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Da dee dee da. Duh, f----. Hey, welcome back to our stupid Do-Rex video. This is Corbin. He ain't no holo back, girl. And don't forget to subscribe, and get some patreon info. It's so juicy. Today we're reacting to a juice for everyone. What you doing? I'm doling out free juice to everybody and you get some juice and you get some juice by Shashi Thawar. I know why what do we know that name? You recognize him? Yeah, he's the guy that we saw his speech of reparations. Reparations, yes. From the British, right. This is a video I think he just released just a few days ago with Tendo's guide to Indian English. Interesting. Obviously, this guy is, I think, not only a politician, but I think he's mostly known for being a scholar. I think that's actually what he's mostly known for. And so he's really smart. That was actually really early on that we were active. It was like one of the first couple months, yeah, I guess that we were doing it. I think it was probably February of 2019. And it was a great speech. Great speech. Love the speech. So I'm expecting some intellectual conversations. Stimulate, you'll light us. Titillate my brain. Stimulate my titillate. There are these that don't exist in any Indian language and don't exist in any other form of the English language, like Brinjal. So in the western world it's eggplant, right. And in India, there is no Indian language where it's called Brinjal. It's called Bangan, it's called Vaidirindya in Malayalam, Begun in Bangla. But you can't have anyone saying Brinjal except in Indian English, right? You've introduced India to many words like Rodhamontate and Farago and Kipapoto Monster, Seskipa Daliaphobia. So I'd like you to introduce us to one more of your favorite words. Well, you know when a kid asked me that as a gathering in a school in Truendrum, I told him the word that I would introduce him to was to read. But he'd come across his own words so I wouldn't have to spoil the video about it. But there are lots of interesting words. As you know, yesterday I reminded the nation of a word called Snotty Gosta, which is an 18th-century American concoction, meaning a shrewd and unprincipled politician. One particular chief minister jumped ship and went and joined the party he'd campaigned against. And when something similar seemed to be happening overnight on the weekend, I dusted this out and said latest usage today. So that's one word which I think at least a lot of people now seem to be familiar with. Another word that I've been fond of in the sense that I feel could be used more often, especially in our politics, is defenestrate. Defenestrate means literally to throw out of the window, but it's meant to be used simply to reject, to discard, to expel all of those things. And I love that word. I've been using it since my college days, and I'm surprised that it's not widely used. Defenestrate. Defenestrate the political opportunities for politics. Are there any other English words that you've invented or would like to coin them? No, I've coined one or two in the Great Indian Novel, two embarrassing dimension in public. But they never caught up. So we can all make it up. Please tell us. No, no, I can't. This is going to remain on the net as a permanent indictment. I've coined a slightly naughty word in the Great Indian Novel, which I'll whisper to you and you can go and look it up later, but you won't catch me saying it. Okay. Oh, I want to know it. Come on. Which I wanted to see getting more popular, which is not really a new word particularly, but as Minister of State for External Affairs, I suggested in a couple of speeches that India was moving on beyond non-alignment to multi-alignment. But I said it kind of fell with a thud, and no one took it seriously, and no one quoted it and got no attention. Now it's come back into vogue, and I was complimenting my friend, the Foreign Minister, Jay Shankar, that in one of his speeches, he used the term multi-alignment. So 10 years after I had tried and failed, it really coming into circulation. Right. That's fantastic. That's an exclusive for the English. Thank you so much. Now, another subject just close to your heart is about the British looting India. And loot is one of the words that you have written and spoken about in the past. Could you talk to us about some of the other words that the British have looted from India? Oh, God, there are so many. I mean, there must be, without exaggeration, close to a thousand words in the complete talks, the big fat Oxford English dictionary that have come from Indian languages. But some I wouldn't really count as English words because they're very obviously unchanged Indian words that they put in. Some, however, though very much current in English usage and many English people don't realize it, Coffin India, to the Indian era, very obviously Indian like jungle or bungalow, you know, things that grew. I mean, many people oddly enough in the Western world don't realize that these words are Coffin Indian languages. But then there are the really surprising ones, words that don't actually look or sound Indian the way the British pronounced them, which are actually derived from then, of course, mispronounced Indian words. So one that I particularly was struck by when I discovered it about 10, 15 years ago was shampoo, because shampoo came from the British saying Chumple when they got their servants to wash their hair. So press and knead and rub your hair is Chumple. It wasn't imperative. And then I'm going for a shampoo became I'm going for a shampoo. And that's how shampoo came to be. I believe of Bengali by the name of Sheikh Din Mohammed took it to took it and he actually set up an entire series of salons, those bars where he offered the shampoo exactly. Wow. The Mohammed from Bihar actually, but Bihar was part of the main goal presidency. Wow. You're getting smart. Yeah, you're smart. The other one was cash, which comes from tamar. I mean, I had no idea that cash came. I mean, I, I could guess that Malaga Tony soup was actually Malaga Thani, which simply means hot pepper water. And that's in Tamil. But that cash had come from a Tamil word was a discovery to me. So things like that, I think there were quite a few. Even Wikipedia has over 100 from various Indian languages. And if you go to a more serious sort of filler linguistics study, I'm sure you'll get several. Right. Catamaran is another one. That's again from tamar. In fact, Qatar is literally to cut and Maram is wood. So that's what a catamaran is from. And then, of course, if you want to look at come a month, a very elegant English gentleman wearing something around his waist, actually come a month. Just as by the way, this may surprise you, but pictures of these Mexican revolutionaries like Zapata, with bandanas around the head, the council, by exactly. Yeah, yeah. I'm on angles. It comes from Bengali. Yes. Bangles. I think you could guess. Yeah. Dungal, Bengal. Do you know the word for a type of clothing which is inspired by the neighborhood in a Bombay called Dongri? No, I didn't know that there is a neighborhood called Dongri. And that's the Dongri. So there is a an expression that is no longer really current in English for a big commotion, confusion racket called the Dhulali. Dhulali. And that comes from Devlali. I believe. Also mentioned the Jata, which is the drug food. Yeah, yeah. Right. And Indigo, the word Indigo too comes from the Greek word for India or Indian. You've also written about Indianisms like native place. So what are some of your other favorites? Well, there are so many. Some of them they just slip into conversation quite routinely. My favorite for the longest time was Prepol because I thought I'd invented it. But we, you know, Ed Ash is another Indianism. Then the newspaper reports about police tracking and criminals always refer to history sheeters. There is a criminal with a long record of crime. He's called a history sheeter. And that's comes from all Indian English. Then there's, of course, the expressions, you know, of which the most famous one is please adjust. Kindly adjust, actually. Now please adjust. Kindly adjust. That is when a fifth person sits on a bench meant for two. And says kindly adjust. Then there's also the classic, you know, we are like this only. You can come up with a few of those. So after the US, India has the second highest number of English speakers. And with our birth rate, I think there's someone who don't have the highest number of English speakers. There was a US as an immigration rate. So they have already reached, I think, over 300 million. Whereas our census severely undercounts. So we may find it difficult to have bragging rights over the actual numbers. Because, for example, in the Indian census, I'm not considered an English speaker. Since the census only asked me what's my mother tongue? I'm not listening. At least the year that I did the census, there was no supplementary question saying what other languages do you know? What? So they've underestimated the number now. Seriously, I'm not underestimating that. Census claim is 2% speaking English. Right. Yeah. Which is, because my mother tongue. So I would say the reality is a number between 10 and 20%. But varying degrees of competence and influence are of the Indian population. Now, if we take that number, then you're looking at about 260 million, which is still lower than America. So, but I think that with our birth rate, yes, a billion people exceed. All right, good for you and your faith and our birth rate. So, with growing number of English speakers in India and with our growing influence in the world, do you think that passengers on the London Underground wearing cashmere sweatshirts will ask other passengers to kindly adjust? Will New Yorkers ask their meetings to be preponed and will Tant Torontonians describe their complexion as wheatish? Wheatish. That's a good one. Do you think that these words will suffine their way into the rest of the world? No, I, you know, actually, no, I'll tell you what, one of the strengths as well of English is the fact that there are so many regional variants that, you know, there's a very distinctive Australian English, which even New Zealanders can tell apart from a New Zealander's English that you probably can't. And there are a real distinction between the English spoken around London and the English spoken around Yorkshire, little in Scotland or Ireland. And all these variations have what makes it distinctive and therefore Indian English has every right to be as distinctive as Irish English or American English. And it's curious, for example, that in India, at least for the longest time, I've not heard it much since returning to India. But when I left India, people still spoken furlongs. How far are you? We've also just a couple of furlongs down the road. No one in England has used furlong for a hundred years. So we had a word in English. Then there are these Indian words, which don't exist in any Indian language, and don't exist in any other form of the English language, like Brinjal. So in the Western world, it's eggplant, right? And in India, there is no Indian language where it's called Brinjal. It's called Bangan. It's called Vaidurindya in Malayalam, Vahun in Bangla. But you can't have anyone saying Brinjal except in Indian English. So where does it come from? I haven't looked it up. But the fact is it's an Indian English word that only exists in English. Oh, I was up, okay. Yeah, I broke up just like Benod. That's a new word that's been put in. Yeah, I wonder if he knows it. He's always just his voice. That's such an amazing voice. It's the deepness of Amitabh Bachchan's, but obviously very proper. Very proper, almost to the point of being British. Yeah, well, he is British. Yeah, no, but it's not definitively, like it's not a definitive, it's not like Sir John Gilbert, but it's really, really, yeah, it's really, really close to like definitive quintessential Queen's English British. Yeah, but he's always so fun to listen to. I would like to listen to more of him. I would love to talk to him. That would just be a fun conversation. All my stars. Just to ask him just a bunch of stuff, just to not like, because I know he's a politician. Obviously we would never ask him anything politics wise. I would just want to know like dig into his mind of like, what are the things you know? Where does this work from? Yeah. You don't want to know this? What are the things you know? You could just sit and listen to him for hours. Oh yeah. He's one of those smart people. I don't know if you remember it, like Carnivus and Fleetwood. Oh yeah. You guys want to know who it is as a teacher? Of course, I remember Carnivus and Fleetwood. Teachers at Harvest where we were, and I disagree with him on a lot of stuff. Carnivus and both of them. But they're extremely intelligent, especially book-wise. Carnivus especially. Yeah. But nothing against Fleetwood. No. But he's just one of those people, like he just, he knows everything. If there's something in like the book, he knows it. And I never did well in his class because he's, he didn't have really an adjustment in how he taught. And so I was like, but I knew when he, like, when I was, I was like, yeah, he's really smart. Everybody knew he, yeah, Carnivus was smart. He's a smart guy. This guy's actually, I think, can speak well and to anybody, I think. Yeah. He seems like one of those. And I think he also probably has a depth of knowledge in a myriad of topics. I think he could bring up any topic with him, and he would probably tell you some things and you go, I didn't know that. Oh really? Yeah, don't, I didn't know that either. And he'd just go, yeah, well, I'm this and then that, in the same way that I would love to have a conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Oh, yeah. You know, same kind of thing. Same kind of a thing. He would say stuff when I'd be like, didn't know that. Keep talking. I'm becoming a better person just listening to you talk. Well, luckily we've had a lot of those in our interviews. Oh my. We've had quite a few lessons. Yes. On multiple subjects, whether it's Chakraborty with her singing, or Niraj in acting, his approach to acting and his directing. Yeah. We've had so many where we just got to sit down and have a cure for singing. Yeah. Really? It was basically just a class. Yeah. That we were sitting down. 100% accurate. Yeah. Wonderful. So I'd imagine talking to him would be that exact same way. So if he has more speeches, stuff like that, let us know. Let us know down below. Let us know. Down below. Let us know.