Re: [Assam] quick help

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:18:47 -0800

Dear Barua:

>I think we should close the topic.
 
I agree and I thought I already thanked everyone and did close it. Apparently it has been reopened.

This was not really about what I like or dislike. When I said I did not like a particular word, all that was meant was that I thought I wouldn't be able to use it in the context that I wanted it for.

I am not a literary giant/Xahittik like many of you on the net, but I know this much (as I repeatedly mentioned in my posts) that a phrase like 'mone-mone' has many nuances. Like I said in my first/original mail, 'mone`mone` thaka/thakok' may have been meaningful but rude in certain situations.

But as a layperson and a native Assamese I would say this much - if 'mone`-mone`' by itself means 'quiet please' then I don't know the language as a native Assamese. I sincerely hope this does not foretell perceptive standards for Assamese translation. 

In any case, once again, I sincerely thank you and others for all your inis simply incomplete in this case, and does not do justice to the rich heritage of the Assamese language. puts in parsing this out.

Best wishes to you.

- Alpana

 
From: "Rajen & Ajanta Barua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] quick help
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:59:23 -0600

I think we should close the topic.
Personal likes and dislikes are different things, always subjective and may not have to be based on rational.
Barua
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] quick help

'mone mone' means secretively also, that's what I don't like. 'mountota' or 'nirovota' will be a better fit, IMO. Thanks again for the input.




 
From: "Rajen & Ajanta Barua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] quick help
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:26:23 -0600

When we say,  Moi mone mone ahilw, that means, I came quietly, silently (you cannot play drum here). Mone mone means, like you said, more than not talking.
But I can play a drum even when I am MOUNO.
Gandhi attended some meeting when he was in MOUNO BROT, and others were speaking. The situation was not quiet at all.
Rajen Barua 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] quick help

>Someone can be MOUNO (will not talk, MOUNO-BROT)  but he can be playing a drum >and make lot of noise.
>QUIET or SILENT is actually freedom from noise or sound.

As always, I appreciate the good arguments but isn't that the same situation with 'mone`mone`too? One can stay 'mone` mone`, but can beat a drum around. Or, he/she can 'mone` mone`' steal a book and leave.

And Barua, as far as I understand, 'Quiet' is an adjective and be a verb. 'Quiet-ly' is an adverb.

From: "Barua25" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Prakash Deka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] quick help
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:17:41 -0600

Someone can be MOUNO (will not talk, MOUNO-BROT)  but he can be playing a drum and make lot of noise.
QUIET or SILENT is actually freedom from noise or sound.
Rajen Barua
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] quick help

This one was probably buried in the flurry of emails, but if I have to give my two cents, this has been the closest to what Alpana Baidew was looking for - "Mounata Banchaniya" that is.
 
Cheers,
Prakash

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Baidew,
 
I think "MOUNOTA BANCHANIYA" may serve the purpose in Assamese. In hindi it may be "MOUN RAHIYE". It is my opinion.
 
Dipangkar

----- Original Message ----
From: Alpana B. Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:30:04 AM
Subject: [Assam] quick help

What is the exact translation of "Quiet Please" in Assamese or Hindi - in a nice/professional way, and it should not be as rude as 'mone` mone` thaka/thakok' or "chup roho/rehiye!'. :)  
I would appreciate any help.
- ABS.


 

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