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From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 21 January, 2010 12:25:03
Subject: Re: [silk] Interesing Nonsense
Udhay Shankar N [21/01/10 11:51 +0530]:
>One one sense, you're right. The way I heard it, the very cheap
>truck/vehicle Suresh is referring to above was actually called a
>"jugaad" and the generic usage of the word for any hack of this nature
>came later.
>
>Any modern-day Hobsons or Jobsons care to confirm this?
That (cheap truck) is the most common usage - but trying to find etymology
for this is very chicken and egg indeed. As the management prof said in
businessweek, it gets called "good old yankee ingenuity" when farmers turn
their model T into a tractor or hay baler.
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I don't know where you two guys are coming from on this one, but this is
uncomplicated, trust me; it's from a word which means roughly "get", "fetch",
"procure", so, = "it's a bit of putting together". A very UP/Bihar/ Bengal
word, more UP than the other two, and the cheap truck was one which got going
in and around Kanpur. They also called the Bajaj Tempo three-wheeler a jugaad -
it wasn't really meant to be a people-mover, an MUV, a la Toyota and those
marketing nominalists, but turned out to be the most effective for those areas
- minimalist mini-buses, if you like. The HM Trekker became a jugaad thingy by
the same token.
