Desi netizens in splits as French man shares Indian-English phrases taught by his wife: ‘It's normal only'
Sacha Arbonel, who lives in Amsterdam with his Indian wife Pratim Bhosale, recently posted on X about the quirky expressions he's adopted, thanks to her influence.
Sacha Arbonel, a French man, has desi Twitter in splits after he shared a list of Indian-style English phrases he picked up from his Indian wife Pratim Bhosale. Arbonel, who lives in Amsterdam, posted the quirky expressions he has adopted, saying, 'New English phrases I learned from my Indian wife.'
His post features a list of lines that anyone who has grown up in an Indian household will instantly recognise. Among the gems he mentioned were phrases like 'It's normal only,' 'Salt is less,' 'Do one thing,' 'I'm not mad okay,' and the classic 'He is my real brother'. But the phrase that took the cake was 'I can get this in India for 100 rupees.'
Check out the post:
New English phrases I learned from my Indian wife:
'It's normal only'
'I'm not mad okay'
'Salt is less'
'Do one thing'
'He is my REAL brother'
And my most favorite
'I can get this in India for 100 rupees' https://t.co/cpb5kIREgc
— Sacha Arbonel (@sachaarbonel) April 20, 2025
The post blew up, with thousands of likes and X users flooding the replies with their own phrases.
One user wrote, 'Your learning is incomplete if you don't know 'Nothing doing'.' Another pointed out how uniquely subcontinental it is to double up words, saying, 'I find the use of double-barrelled phrases like 'slowly-slowly' or 'different-different' to be uniquely specific to the Indian subcontinent.'
A third person said, 'When I was in India, an admin lady asked me, 'Please do the needful'. I was confused and I asked her 'why would I do the needless?' We were both confused until my ROFL Indian American coworker explained.'
A fourth individual said, 'lmao, I dated an American and he picked up 'by chance', and adding only and toh in every sentence.'
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