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Bigg Boss 19: Daily Discussion Thread- 13th Oct 2025
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Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki: Episode Discussion Thread - 30
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Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai - 13 Oct 2025 EDT
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Bubbles
A toddler, I am guessing between one and two years of age, toddled, waddled and paddled past me on tiny feet ensconced in bright green crocs. Spotting a mangy dog in the distance, the toddler squealed something that sounded alien and angrily brushing away the matching green bubble maker toy that his mom was trying to place in his mouth, pointed to the four legged dog. Then before she could stop him he dropped to the ground, on his tender hands and forgetting his newly learned skills of upright walking began crawling on fours like a crocodile. He made good pace compared to his mother who had her hands full of bubble maker and a couple of bags loaded with enough baby nutrition to feed a small third world country.
I put out my hands offering my help and she blushed and smiled and said, " Thank you Gopi saar " and dumping her stuff in my keeping, ran screaming, "Dei saniyane, Don't touch that sori nai " but was too late for the toddler, and the old mangy dog mother made contact.
The old mangy female dog which had been fast asleep raised its retired head and looked around wondering what all the commotion was about. Then began slowly wagging its ragged tail and monitored the movements of the toddler that was crawling towards it. Yes. Contact was made.
The boy reached out to the dog and the dog reached out to the toddler and giving his hand a gentle lick, acknowledged the innocence of the bright soul that life would soon blight and tarnish forever and accepted the child's greeting.
The mother of the toddler arrived and kicking the dog, grabbed her son with her left hand and raising him, screamed, ' Naaye, naaye. Arivu vendaam. Unga appa mathiriye en uyira vaanguriye ' and gifted him two thumping slaps on his bum and back and the toddler screamed out his rage and pain.
I watched the female mangy dog stop in its tracks, hearing the toddler's cries, and turning around, wondering if it should go and try to save its new friend. Maybe that was what it thought, or maybe it did not.
Raising the bubble maker, I blew bubbles of different sizes and watched as life, time, and memories of other lives floated about, twinkling rainbows through their hollow sheaths. Then, one by one, they exploded and vanished.
I come awake every day, recognising the bubbles of yesterdays and yesteryears and tell myself, ' Sat, fill it to the brim with more colors and more feelings, and f..k it even if they happen to be sad and melancholic in nature.
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Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever Sarah Addison Allen
Americans are chuffed as chips at British English
The Economist, October 7, 2024
Why doesn’t the affection run both ways?
British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the language of the mother country. The BBC once asked British readers to send in the Americanisms that annoyed them most and was flooded with thousands of entries, including “24/7”, “deplane” and “touch base”. Matthew Engel, a writer who had kicked off the conversation with an article on unwanted Americanisms, even turned the idea into a book, “That’s the Way It Crumbles”, in 2017.
The furore—which Americans would call a furor—seemed to die down. But in September Simon Heffer of the Daily Telegraph revived it with a column and book about Americanisms, a trend he situates “in the past 15 years”. His language evokes violence, bemoaning American words’ “poisoning”, “linguistic assault”, “conquest” and “penetration”. In the end, though, even the hyperbolic Mr Heffer concedes that Brits are, in fact, “willingly adopting” these words, especially via two channels associated with America: digital technology and “corporatespeak”. He just wishes his countrymen would stop.
But linguistic exchange can also be seen in a more upbeat way. This is the approach of Ben Yagoda, emeritus professor of English at the University of Delaware and a prolific writer on language, in “Gobsmacked!” The trend is older and more extensive than many think. Mr Yagoda describes Britishisms like “it’s early days” and “gone missing” taking hold in America almost entirely below the radar in the 1980s and 2000s, respectively.
Mr Yagoda identifies the intensifier “awfully” (as in “awfully tired”) as the first Britishism, having been noticed (disapprovingly) by an American commentator in the 19th century. The early 20th century saw many more Britishisms take hold, especially via military contact: “gadget”, “cushy”, “scrounge”, “bonkers”, “dicey” and “shambolic” all made their way from the British Tommy to G.I. Joe, and thence to the wider American public.
The internet has spread English in both directions. Being able to read the Guardian and to binge “The Crown” on Netflix has probably sped up the passage of British terms into American speech. Mr Yagoda has compiled a “top 40”, including “bespoke”, “brilliant” (merely “OK, good”), “chat up”, “ginger” and “non-starter”. Each term gets a rating on a five-notch adoption scale, from “outpacing” (signifying Americans now use the term more than its coiners in Britain do) to merely “on the radar”, meaning only a few newspaper columnists are using it.
American Anglophiles tend to be part of a media elite who holiday in Europe (and might even use “holiday” as a verb), whereas American slang is seen as passing to Britain through less rarefied channels. Lynne Murphy, an American linguist at the University of Sussex, notes that “Friends”, a popular American comedy show, is often blamed wrongly for the rise of “Can I get…?” at coffee shops in Britain. In her study of online lists explaining British terms to Americans and vice versa, she found the ones about Britishisms for Americans were often framed positively (for example, “a guide to the best Britishisms”), while for Brits Americanisms were more often negative (“41 things the Americans say wrong”).
What kind of Britishisms tickle American sensibilities? A few sounds tend to recur, such as adjectives ending in “y” (from “cushy” and “smarmy”—Britishisms but no longer seen as such in America—to more recent ones like “dodgy” and “cheeky”). B- and p-sounds also tend to feature, including in made-up words (“bumbershoot” is not, as some Americans believe, a real British word for an umbrella). The Oatmeal, a web comic, summed up how British English sounds to Americans: “I remember my days at Oxford, we’d often dabble in a little rumpy-pumpy before dingbangling a fresh todger, haha!”
That hints at another source of Britishisms making their way west: insults and “naughty bits” like “knob”, “shag” and “wanker”. A spirit of playfulness pervades American usage of these British words; they may even tend to overuse them and underestimate their rudeness, because the sounds are so silly.
It is possible that the British need “Gobsmacked!” more than their American cousins. The Americanisation of British English is well known; the Britishisation of American English, not so much (as a Californian teen might say). A country not sure what influence it still does—or should—have in the world might like to know that the superpower across the ocean still fancies the mother country and its culture. ■
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