[INDOLOGY] Soo che? Saru che... Gujarati

[Bindu Bhatt]

If it were in Gujarati, it will be

શું છે. સારું છે. ડંડો લઈ ને મારૂં ।

However, mostly non-Gujarati speaker [Hindi speaker] use this doggerel and
it is exactly how you have mentioned in your Anglisized version. I slightly
defer from the meaning given. It means: How is it going? It is fine.  I
will take a stick and hit you.
I have never understood this doggerel and why is it something that people
so widely use.

Bindu Bhatt


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Balogh Dániel <danbalogh at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear All,
> could someone help me with the Gujarati doggerel in Rushdie's Midnight's
> Children? A friend of mine is revising the Hungarian translation of the
> book and we are using a Hungarian phonetic approximation of the indic words
> rather than the English spelling. So what I'm interested in is the correct
> Gujarati spelling (if you can write Gujarati in Unicode, I'll be able to
> read it with a table; or you could use Devanagari or IAST to make my job
> even easier). If the pronunciation is different from how a Hindi speaker
> would pronounce the words, please also say a word or two about how this
> should sound. I'm fluent in Hindi but know nothing about Gujarati.
> The Anglicised version goes "Soo che? Saru che! Danda le ke maru che!",
> and Rushdie's translation is "How are you?-I am well! - I'II take a stick
> and thrash you to hell!"
> Here's my guess of how this would look in Devanagari
> सू छे? सारु छे। दण्ड लेके मारु छे।
> But "सारु छे" is the only phrase I've managed to find on the web; "सू छे"
> is just guesswork and probably wrong, while the latter part is based on
> Hindi.
> So if any Gujarati speaker can help, your contribution will be most
> welcome.
> Daniel
>
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