Even more amazing

My grandmother, around 76, knows English and she does not even know that :) The penetration which English words have made into the Hindi language is really amazing and my grandmother is an example of it. She knows that if a landlord asks his servant to do something, its an order. Two generations elder to her, one of our relatives was a Civil Surgeon (She knows who is a Civil Surgeon and the hindi for it is Bade Wala Doctor). She knows that if she eats something really oily, her whole digestive system becomes heavy (she understands what heavy feels like but doesn't know heavy is a gift from the English world to Hindi). The hottest discussion (and we had to involve my mother also in it, which hasn't been concluded yet even after her involvement) that came up was whether Ice Cream is a Hindi or English word. Now my grandmother and mother are pretty much convinced that its Hindi, but somehow I tend to disagree. The final conclusion of the debate was that we all agree to disagree :)