Hindi: kaisa chal raha hai tera college?
English:how is going ur college?
Hindi: yaad rakho
English: keep remember
Hindi: sir/madam to mere peechhe hi pad gaye padne ke liye
English: sir/madam is at the back of me for studying
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Do you find anything common in all these sentences? These are the examples of true translation of people’s mother tongue to English. People do not realize that the way words are placed in each and every language is very different from each other. But still, they think in their mother tongue and then very happily and skillfully translate the entire sentence into English. Little do they realize that by doing this the entire meaning and gravity of the sentence changes. Instead of the tone being serious it becomes funny (for those who understand English properly). Had Shakespeare been alive, he would have died so many deaths each day.
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