Category: Language
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Patriarchy
Most people out there would misunderstand the word patriarchy. They take it to mean: fatherly-rule or “through rule of the son from the father”. In-fact more than 200 years ago they constructed a new word matriarchy to counter this “sexism”. This new word meant passing of rights through mother’s side. While societies have been greatly…
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Learn a little Japanese, the words for directional reference.
This will be the last post of tonight, well, this is fast approaching morning here; 3 am here, Indian time. And this is going to be on something that is quite close to my heart, if you know me. Japanese language. Last night I was trying to remove all the frivolous likes I had enacted…
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How to ask some one in Japanese where he lives?
doko ni asundeimasu ka? that translates ‘exactly as’ where do you live? How does it reads phonetically? You need to know the exact way a hiragana is defined and mapped into a specific form of Roman alphabet making, called Romaji or Hepburn transliteration rule — as far as I know its only the Japanese system…
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Learn a little Japanese?
How to read the following in Japanese; a’me (Ind; aa’me, ame as in rAMEn noodles) = rain. In kanji, 雨 (ame; rain) I put ‘ to give you phonetic pauses. o’o’ame = heavy rain ko’sa’me = light rain tsu’yu = rainy season go’u’u = heavy rain yu’u’da’sa = shower ta’i’hu (ta’i’fu’) = typhoon. rain Click…
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Can we have only one language for the world?
Can we have only one language for the world? See the following German words, (… and corresponding Indian words). You would think Indo-Europian theory of language is valid. But still such a theory might be adhoc and simply a manipulation of what we see in a few instances. In my years of analysis of words…
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