What’s catching attention on social media this week? A viral Instagram reel featuring a hilarious culture clash between an Australian man and a Bengaluru woman has netizens in splits.
Posted by Instagram user Aashmika Varma, the now-viral reel captures her conversation with Aussie Jack Scott as the two dive into a light-hearted comparison of Australian and Bengaluru slang. Jack doesn’t agree with desi slangs. He simply laughs and bluntly calls Bengaluru slang "pointless and made up".
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“They are arbitrary, pointless, and made up. It doesn't come from anywhere,” Jack says in the video.
Varma quickly challenges him, asking if Australian slang has more meaningful roots. Jack nods, claiming, “Australian slang derives from somewhere,” implying it has more substance.
Unfazed, Varma counters with some classic Bengaluru lingo, like “Yaa, Enthu Cutlet!”—leaving Jack visibly confused. “Why cutlet? What is that?” he asks, bewildered. When she tries out another local favorite—“Let’s put scene”—he reacts with mock frustration: “That doesn’t make any scene. This is so dumb, I swear.”
Internet reacts to viral video
The video, captioned “Did it get you thinking too about the origin of slang? PS - no hate for either culture – this was just an honest opinion from an Australian on Bangalorean Slang hehe" has struck a chord with viewers. Since being posted in February, it has racked up over 20,000 likes and sparked a wave of amused comments.
"'Enthu Cutlet' came out of Indian coffee house (originally on MG Road)which served the best cutlets, and people were enthusiastic about eating one. This eagerness to visit ICH again and again gave rise to Enthu cutlet. The other is a translation. One of my professor's once said, " I'm delayed because I went to my son's school to tie his fees", one user commented.
"A lot of slangs are transliterations of Kannada. For ex, come off is a direct transliteration of Kannada's bandbidu. So Ooru slangs are indeed derived from something, that something is just in the local language, not in English, a foreign language", wrote another.
