As an English speaker with not a word of the Dravidian languages, I don't even try to follow local conversations. However, Indian languages borrow what they need, and often this comes from English. If anyone has been following the news (and inserting random sounds for Kannada) you can imagine the following otherwise unusual conversations -
deli dejani ginahu suga sabinar "gang rape" sabar kehu. Suchinea "gang rape" kari kaludi me bragee.
Other loan words and phrases seem to be "very strict" and "qualification". Yes I can imagine neither of these concepts existed before. (Very strict was in fact the norm)
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