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> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation. Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attenti

> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation. Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.

jacobush 8y ago
They way English rifles through the pockets of other languages looking for vocabulary, just start using it and see if it sticks. :)
- AmericanChopper 8y ago
  Many languages do this as far as I can tell. I speak Indonesian and my girlfriend speaks Hindi, we come across words the languages share every so often. I’ll also catch a word in Tagalog or Dutch that I understand in Indonesian from time to time too.
  - noir_lord 8y ago
    My partner is Hungarian and her language and mine (I'm English) share very few words, it's strange with most languages I hear from other Europeans I can at least get one or two words fairly often but Hungarian is just straight Klingon. It's an interesting hidtory, it basically shares no (known) common roots like most languages around Europe do.
    - Markoff 8y ago
      that's just not truth, they have pretty much same international words for paprika, balcony, auto etc.
- mettamage 8y ago
  > They way English rifles through the pockets of other languages looking for vocabulary, just start using it and see if it sticks. :) reply I do this in my native language (Dutch) as well. My favorite one I came up with is "search term scavenger hunt" in Dutch it is one word as "zoekwoordspeurtocht".
unmole 8y ago
Eh, I tend to translate jugaad to hack.
- ekianjo 8y ago
  > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad > jugaad ~ hack Welcome to Jugaad-er News.
  - infinityplus1 8y ago
    Well, a person who creates the jugaads is called "jugaadi". So, Jugaadi News.
    - CydeWeys 8y ago
      I would definitely read that blog!
- naiveai 8y ago
  I find that "hack" is simply a sort of close approximation to "jugaad", though this may just be entirely through the cultural context where it's used.

> Ever heard of the concept of "jugaad"? It's a Hindi term meaning cheap innovation. Let's use this word in English as well, as it allows to direct our attention to jugaad immediately.

jacobush 8y ago

They way English rifles through the pockets of other languages looking for vocabulary, just start using it and see if it sticks. :)

AmericanChopper 8y ago
Many languages do this as far as I can tell. I speak Indonesian and my girlfriend speaks Hindi, we come across words the languages share every so often. I’ll also catch a word in Tagalog or Dutch that I understand in Indonesian from time to time too.
- noir_lord 8y ago
  My partner is Hungarian and her language and mine (I'm English) share very few words, it's strange with most languages I hear from other Europeans I can at least get one or two words fairly often but Hungarian is just straight Klingon. It's an interesting hidtory, it basically shares no (known) common roots like most languages around Europe do.
  - Markoff 8y ago
    that's just not truth, they have pretty much same international words for paprika, balcony, auto etc.
mettamage 8y ago
> They way English rifles through the pockets of other languages looking for vocabulary, just start using it and see if it sticks. :) reply I do this in my native language (Dutch) as well. My favorite one I came up with is "search term scavenger hunt" in Dutch it is one word as "zoekwoordspeurtocht".

unmole 8y ago

Eh, I tend to translate jugaad to hack.

ekianjo 8y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad > jugaad ~ hack Welcome to Jugaad-er News.
- infinityplus1 8y ago
  Well, a person who creates the jugaads is called "jugaadi". So, Jugaadi News.
  - CydeWeys 8y ago
    I would definitely read that blog!
naiveai 8y ago
I find that "hack" is simply a sort of close approximation to "jugaad", though this may just be entirely through the cultural context where it's used.