Category: Language

  • Learning Hiragana fast -II

    Confusion: む す ず [mu su ~ zu/ju] So I have told you 68-18-3=47 characters, howto remember them by remembering far less than 47 characters. [ofcourse not in any particular way but by trying to be as simple as I could given I could remember them in about 3 hours] I will tryy to simplify…

  • How to learn Hiragana in few hours? [Learning Hiragana fast -I]

    か [ka, there is a k with broken hand] が [ga, there is a k with broken hand but 2-stroke because ga is a heavier ka]

  • Can tea be this hot?

    Kokor’s theorem: in linguistic analysis a non-anthropic alternation is not any less important than an anthropic one. Non-anthropic alternation: one artificial alternation eg a machine/systematic/synthetic alternation. Anthropic alternation: phonetic variations due to how people speak from one place to another, one time to another, one poeple to another ..

  • How to test words are cognates or not

    Hindi: मुझे [mujh-e] and Odia: ମୋତେ [mot-e] are cognates. They mean: to me. Well thats clear to anyone who knows these two languages enough which can take you say 10 or 15 years. Howto know that if you did not know these languages as such but they have been written into Roman. You have to…

  • There is one swift way for modernization of Indian languages

    A new alphabet system is necessary for India. It now has 21 systems. Why not one? well which will be preferred? Devnagari? NOO NOO NOO. Take two consonants from each you have 21*2 = 42 consonants. Then add symbols of vowels from letters of [kshiti, ap, tej, marut, byom] you may need just two Hiragana…