There are many things I love about Kashmir and it's people but they take themselves too seriously. Being born in a Sardar family, it's a bit odd for me. We are pros at making fun of ourselves. This post is just for fun.
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Any outsider who travels to the Valley will be caught
unawares by a few idiosyncrasies of the spoken language of the Kashmiris. Don’t
get confused when a person asks you, ‘Tum ko mat he pata’. Now for any
Hindi-Urdu speaking individual this is a funny term. All it means is ‘don’t you
know?’. I was told by a friend
-who was staying in a Kashmiri household that the lady of the house, while
serving him dinner kept asking- “Tum ko mat he khana?’. He just didn’t know if
he was supposed to eat his dinner or not.
All she was trying to ask was if he wanted more.
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| Tu mera Bai he! |
Ok, Bhai is another one. For a Kashmiri, to pronounce the
word is difficult for some reason. So if your Kashmiri host says ‘Bai’, he’s
not referring to the kaamvali bai he
means brother and sikkss means six.
