English Vinglish, coffee voffee, sugar vugar - where does that come from? Is it some kind of Hindi or Tamil thing? I don't understand it... somebody please explain!
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It's an Indian thing common with punjabi and Hindi
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I think it's related to the process in linguistics called reduplication. You slightly change the original word and add the resulting word as a suffix to it. Except here the second word is nonsensical. It's not just v. Other letters can be replaced/added. Also, other languages like Punjabi use it. For example, the Punjabi word for tea (the beverage as opposed to the leaves or dried leaves that become black-brown grain type things, I forget what they're called O_o) is chah. In conversation sometimes, when talking to a close acquaintance or other people closer in your social circle like friends, and relatives, you add the word chooh. So you ask, "chah-chooh piyenga?" (Would you like some chah-chooh?)
shareIt's not uncommon. You might be more familiar in the US with SHM reduplication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shm-reduplication)re: Fancy Shmancy. It's sort of a way of negating/minimizing/mocking the word that is reduplicated.
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