Most Americans probably know a few Japanese loanwords, especially those who
were alive in the two or three decades after WWII, when so many terms from
Japa...
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Kinda like the "By God ki Kasam", uttered solemnly (the worse the lie, more the solemnity) with the thumb and the index pinching the adam's apple...
A similar convoluted construct was used in that awesome spoof, "Andaz Apna Apna": "Galti se mistake ho gaya, Sir." Makes the confessor seem so much more human.
Cheers,
Krishna
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