13 Unique Indianisms In Indian English

13 Unique Indianisms In Indian English
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cooling glasses:
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ceasework:
TriQuarterly
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to beyond a problem:
4. co-brothers:
5. folder:
6. curved question:
7. fall:
8. looking London, talking Tokyo:
9. simply-sitting officer:
10. cutting:
11. cut-piece:
12. timepass:

13. mind it!: an expression of unstated menace that may come light as a feather's touch or sharp as a whiplash. Across South India, parents, schoolteachers, goons, heroes and villains have all camped it up for decades with these two words, blunting them so much in the process that in recent years those who ask others to 'Mind it!' seem comical despite their direst intentions.

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