Ser ko sawa ser

Thursday, June 4, 2009

I was talking to one of my South Indian friend and the talk just went on about rants and complaints about college. Now my friend is very good with language. He profoundly uses latin, greek.. homer..Horace etc in his writings and all.. One of his favorite quote is c’est la vie… meaning “that is life”..
So when we were ranting about our college.. I mentioned the above quote.. and he was like… Sample this then..and he started sending me all his knowledge about greek and latin quotes.. .c'est la vie...que sera sera...carpe diem...vini vici vidi..
I was like wow yaar.. I threw a ser and u are giving me back sawa ser..
My friend being a south Indian now didn’t know the meaning of Ser ko sawa ser.. and me being a lazy person as I am just asked him to google it and see for himself..
He actually googled it but found out different meanings for this quote. He sent me the list and asked me which one was correct.When I read it.. I just couldn’t stop laughing out loud :)
Sample this –
Ser ko sawa ser kab milta hai..
1. Jab ser chidiyaghar say niqal kar jungle mein jata haiiiiiiii (*When the lion comes out of the zoo and goes to jungle)
Errr.. was the question about ser or Sher.. the lion?. :) Oh well, still, it makes out the correct sense of the proverb if given a thought!!
2. Jab uski shaadi hoti hai (*When he gets married)
Wow man.. Now this is what I call brevity.. I like this.. Brings out the deep meaning of the proverb (* devil grin)
3. Har ser ko taiyar rahna chahiye kabhi bhi mil sakta hai ( Every lion must be prepared, for he can meet anyone anytime)
Now this was profound.. m impressed by the interpretation
4. Kabhi nahi. (*Never)
Hmm.. okay, I got it.. the person is so self obsessed that he thinks he is the best and will not get meet any sawa ser in his life.. cool yaar..
5. Jab saamnewala usse bhi hosiyaar hai tab. (* When the other person is more intelligent that you are)
Ab isko kya interpret karu.. this is meaning in just plain hindi..

I later explained the correct meaning to him but poor chap.. the googled meanings were all in hindi and he couldn’t get the jokes..

2 comments:

Day Dreamer said...

Lol :)

Stupidosaur said...

Commenting on a post about explaining that I have explained...