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Jun 21, 2006, 08:44 PM
 
I need a Hindi speaker to answer a question....

I was traveling in India with my brother and we were eating some biscuits/cookies, something like Parle G, and there was a slogan that we were taking about, but can't quite remember all of it. It was printed in roman letters, which was odd as I think it was one of the few times we saw Hindi written with roman characters

I remember it as "Double Sawad (or Sawaa or similar spelling), Double Mazaa!" I've figured out that Mazaa means 'pleasurable' or something to that effect, but what does the other term mean? I can't seem to find any info on it.

Thanks in advance!

- John

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Jun 22, 2006, 10:01 PM
 
Almost 1 in 6 people on this pretty little rock of ours speaks Hindi... but nobody in here?!

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Jun 22, 2006, 11:41 PM
 
double the taste, double the pleasure.

swaad = taste (I'm pretty sure, I don't speak hindi though)
     
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Jun 23, 2006, 12:43 AM
 
Thanks! That makes lots of sense!

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Jun 23, 2006, 12:54 AM
 
Originally Posted by Albert Pujols
double the taste, double the pleasure.

swaad = taste (I'm pretty sure, I don't speak hindi though)
Yup. i know a little hindi/urdu ....that seems about right.
     
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Jun 23, 2006, 03:54 AM
 
I'll confer with my parents later today and get back to you.
     
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Jun 23, 2006, 08:03 AM
 
Swaad means taste. Confirmed.
     
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Jun 23, 2006, 12:48 PM
 
बहुत बहुत

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Jun 23, 2006, 02:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by GSixZero
बहुत बहुत
I wish I knew how to read that then understand it.

I only speak limited amounts of gujarati, but I can understand a lot of it, which is odd I think.
     
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Jun 23, 2006, 02:53 PM
 
बहुत बहुत - bahut bahut - Thank you very much.

I don't speak/understand any of it... but I've been using online hindi tools for a couple days trying to answer the above question.

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Jun 23, 2006, 04:51 PM
 
Bahut bahut is not thank you very much.
That is bahut, but it means lots.. signifies quantity.
     
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Jun 23, 2006, 05:11 PM
 
Like I said, I'm sort of flying blind on the whole deal. Got that info from http://wikitravel.org/en/Hindi_phrasebook#Basics

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