Tag: language

  • Learn a little Japanese, the words for directional reference.

    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…

  • Learn a little Japanese?

    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…

  • 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…

  • “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.…

  • Rule behind forming Japanese (Chinese?) numbers.

    Rule 3: I merged rule 3 into 2 and sub-itemized into i) and ii). Smart? I think necessary. They say “necessity is the mother of invention”. I thought last night, as I was totally ill, by body pain and head ache, and didn’t do much except weeping in pain, “what if, invention is actually a…