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Category: Language

  • “I can’t believe” !

    “I can’t believe” !

    These tricks are not exclusive to Japanese alphabet. I also used them to match with Odia alphabet and south Indian alphabet to remember. Check this out ! い ଇ ಇ ఇ The “i” [said as e, as in english] has a component which is partially same (two circles, if extrapolated) in Japanese, Odia, Kannada, Telugu.…

  • Insight on killing self !

    Consonant; what you say. Vowel; how you say that. eg K is consonant, in ki, ke, ka, ko, ku K is whats fixed, because that’s “what” we say. But “how” we say it varies; u or a? Now why this flashed? I was checking a Japanese word: “jigai” (自害) which means suicide. This word comes…

  • Telos is Greek for end. So nice.

    Sean has this lucidly written this article on our existential moorings .. “Why we move towards Future differently from Past eg is Thermodynamics and Arrow of Time”. What I picked up is though, two interesting cognates of Greek with Sanskrit. Telos is Greek for End. Well it is so for Sanskrit, (hence ILS, almost all…

  • Why Japanese is the most elaborate Language?

    Couple years ago, for this reason, not the kai reason, but any phonetic-word-attempt which gave me tons of kanjis, for same phonetics, I said, Japanese Language has so many synonyms, (perhaps this is anti-synonym, but in my defense, I don’t remember exact word I used, its a memory retrieval, you see) and still Japanese Language…

  • Learning a few interesting kanji.

    Originally written October 2012. Explained and expanded today, 27-01-2014. Friday, October 5, 2012 at 3:02 pm UTC + 05:30 word of the day: 体 karada and 休 kyuu 。 note 1; 亻this fellow is whats called ninben, which means “person-like part-of-a-kanji”, a part-of-a-kanji is called, a radical, which means a component of a kanji. This…