Hukka... (No, not the drinking hukka)

The lingo here at IITd is amazin. They try to shorten everything up. Everything... they shorten things so much that a full fledged novel can be converted into a short story.

"Yaar tu stud hai yaar!" would be the favourite line of any general arbit person you might find roaming around here and the popularity of the word 'arbit' which stands for arbitrary, just
cannot be explained.

"Studapaa mat jhaad"(dont shed studaapa)
"Waaah! kya tashan hai" or "Tashanaapa to bahut hota hai yaha" (tashan is like style or sumtn)

The postfix '-aapa', I have to say, is a very useful one.
Tashaanapa
Studaapa
Arbitaapa
Frustaapa
Papa
etc etc

"Woh to max frustaa gaya" (he is highly frustrated)

Some other, arbit terminologies do exist and seem to come from various sources..
for example "Oye! toone woh 3rd question banaaya kya ??" (Were u able 2 do the 3rd Q? )

For the types of jokes that emanate from my auspicious mouth, the word used is 'Hagga'
Oh shit! I cannot understand how a PJ can be linked to 'Hagga'
(its good if you dont know the hindi meaning of this word)
And ya... Hagga is not spoken out, instead,
"Yaar! please arbit hugge mat uchhaal" .. ie foul-smelling haggas are tossed....

In iit, no one has any problem, no one has any tension but everyone has a fight.
Nothing is not tough or hard but Fighter.
No prof. is strict, profs are fighter.
Another use... "Yaar!!! woh maggu kitni fight machaa raha hai"

As you would expect, IIT is full of maggus. Maggu species is a species, amazing types. They believe study is worship. Sit on the first bench. Never miss a class.
Maggus dont study, maggus do magaaee. (magaai is a verb)

Coming to the more useful lingo,
If you get an A grade in a course, you get an 'Ikka'
Going by the same tradition are 'Bikka' 'Cikka' 'Dikka' (point to be noted milord ..Dikka)
We dont say 'Eeeka' when you get an E grade coz then it sounds really eecky.

The best thing happens when you get an F grade.. You're sad, lonely and feel like crying as you have to do this dreaded course again.. and a happy friend comes and asks
"Oye!!! Fukka laga kya ???"(Did you get a fukka or what ??)
Fukka, very certainly, Fukka....
If you get a zero, you get a Zukka.

And some senior studs, (here stud means stud-ent)
so some senior studs many years ago had also coined 'Hukka'.

Hukka stands not for the H grade (there is no bloody H grade)
but for humanities courses that strive or maybe thrive, Im not sure, to exist in the IIT system.

Yes! Humanities courses in Engg. Amazing huh ?

The current hukka i've taken up is called 'Science and Humanism'... However 'chaatu' it might sound, I totally agree with my friend TK(Dead bird) that hukka courses are the only ones which actually teach us something*.

One of my friends once exclaimed "Yaar! there's nothing more chill than being a hukka prof"
I max agree!

Enough hukka blabbering. The IIT lingo, this shortening of thin's like, secy, rep, frust etc etc is certainly useful, but im unaffected.. I speak my own arbit language as I like it.

I do not live in ze hostel and am deviod of the many-a-great terms used there.. So Im unable to give the reader (yes you... who else??) more insight into the subject.

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