[Magdalen] Indian (and other) English

[Jon Egger]

Jay, my mother, too, had a fear of pressure cookers.  I've been watching
some vids on You Tube about pressure cooking and can see where her fear may
have come from.  Despite the 'modern changes' the cooks always remind the
viewer of the dangers that come with pressure cooking.

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Grace & peace,
jon


On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> After working so much with many Indian doctors and nurses , I developed a
> positive fondness for the peculiarities of Indian English, which is as
> different from American or British English as they are from one another. I
> often peruse Indian cooking and other sites and I just came across an
> expression I hadn't seen before. I am familiar with one expression which is
> used frequently to describe the process of heating mustard seeds in oil
> until they make a spluttering noise, which is always written in recipes,
> "Splutter the mustard." That always makes me smile, but this one made me
> laugh out loud. Indian cooks have a love affair with their pressure
> cookers. I don't....I'm scared to death of them....but I was reading a
> recipe today for dal which included the phrase "Pressure to four whistles."
> It makes sense, of course, but verbing sure does weird language.....and
> Indian English verbs a LOT!
>