Unfortunately, this song happened to get stuck in my head today. This was unfortunate not because it's a bad song (I rather like it) but because I spent probably six or seven hours reading, writing, and memorizing Chinese today.
At some point I realized that "jai" and "ho" are both valid sound combinations in Chinese as well as Hindi ("zhai" and "hou"), which gave me the wonderfully procrastinatory (™) idea of finding out what I might be singing, were I singing in Chinese.
Somehow I don't think the dance at the end of Slumdog Millionaire would have been quite as meaningful if Jamal and Latika, finally reunited, had grasped hands and yelled, "Pluck crabs!"
We were singing that at Thanksgiving! Which, come to think of it, makes the Chinese version slightly more appropriate... if only we had served seafood...
ReplyDeleteit's a much more fun and interesting song that way
ReplyDeleteExcellent!
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