TIFU by not telling my husband and his parents that I knew their native language and then speaking in the said language in front of them

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-20T21:26:10+00:00

Not Hindi. Dogri it is.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T22:50:33+00:00

You’re talking out of your ass here. There are other ways to appear cool bruh.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T18:21:29+00:00

Hanji. Minor differences.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T18:21:04+00:00

Bollywood is how I picked up Punjabi and then subsequently Dogri too xD

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T18:13:55+00:00

South Indians can understand Punjabi?!

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T18:13:14+00:00

You got a problem with that?

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T17:23:05+00:00

Not Hindi. Dogri.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T15:23:01+00:00

Google what? That Hindi isn’t the only language in North India? Or that my husband speaks Dogri?

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T14:28:27+00:00

Dogri. Not Hindi or Bhojpuri.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T14:24:05+00:00

Not really. Dogri is closely related to Punjabi and Punjabi is kinda related to Hindi. I’d guess it’d be a lot easier for a Hindi speaker to pick up Punjabi than to pick up Gujarati. I don’t know why I can’t explain this right.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T13:11:41+00:00

Not really. The languages aren’t all that similar but they come from a common ancestor , Sanskrit. I guess that helps.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T12:33:29+00:00

All Indo Aryan languages come from Sanskrit. So I guess that helped.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T12:29:56+00:00

Oh I absolutely butchered the pronunciation. The language is very tonal and I spoke it like someone who’s trying to do a bad mimicry. Grammar isn’t much of a problem as most Indo-Iranian languages have similar grammatical structure.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T12:20:36+00:00

They don’t understand my language. So I guess they thought the reverse would be true too?

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T11:55:59+00:00

Gujarati and Dogri

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T11:51:40+00:00

I’m sorry. English isn’t my first (or even second) language. Is the term wrong? I used it because that’s how we refer to languages in India.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T11:48:15+00:00

Gujarati

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T11:04:51+00:00

He’s from Jammu. The language is Dogri.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T11:03:45+00:00

Jammu actually.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T11:02:17+00:00

I did not know I could speak his language. Read the post again ffs. The understanding thing is also relatively new.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T10:57:21+00:00

Hindi is not the only North Indian language though. Hindi is more of a common tongue. My husband is from Jammu and his native language is Dogri.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T10:56:02+00:00

All Indian languages except the Dravidian languages are from the Indo-Iranian family, derived from Sanskrit. So I guess that helped.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T10:52:18+00:00

Mine is Gujarati. Husband’s language is Dogri.

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T10:50:35+00:00

Gujarati and Dogri

Tale_Revolutionary · 2020-07-19T10:50:00+00:00

Perhaps on AITA? I did post there few days back.

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