Fake Indian accents (by an Indian)
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FAKE ACCENTS | Stand-up Comedy by Niv Prakasam
Niv even gets into the grammatical gender of "chair" (something we covered a few weeks ago) in Marathi, the main language of Mumbai.
The Marathi word for chair, खुर्ची (khurchi), is feminine gender. Therefore, when adjectives or other words modify it, they take a feminine form.
Feminine gender: खुर्ची (khurchi)
Example: The adjective for a masculine noun like 'horse' (घोडा – ghoda) would be 'काळा' (kaala), but for a feminine noun like 'chair' (खुर्ची – khurchi), the adjective changes to 'काळी' (kaali)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كُرْسِيّ (kursiyy). Compare Gujarati ખુરશી (khurśī), Hindi कुरसी (kursī), Kannada ಕುರ್ಚಿ (kurci), Punjabi ਕੁਰਸੀ (kursī).
HI (Human Intelligence) before AI (Artificial Intelligence).
Selected readings
- "The gender of a key" (10/22/25)
- "The gender of gender" (6/6/25)
- "Dialect vs. accent (vs. language)" (11/30/18) — especially these two comments which are about the amazing talents of Thomas Krishna Mair and Michel Strickmann in their ability to mimic virtually any accent