Card:
> I'm just a simple wanna-be-linguist, not a philosopher
>
You do have a predilection for linguists. I'm still trying to learn
English grammar -
do you know how to diagram a simple sentence?
I'm am trying to learn Urdu and Hindi at a local community college from
Professor
Adul using an Urdu phrase book I got at Barnes &Noble. I told Rita to
get me one
of those 'Rosetta Stones', but they didn't have one for conversational
Urdu.
Go figure.
The first thing you got to do is learn the ABC's, and then practice some
phrases:
Hello/Goodbye
namaste (Hindi)
namaskar
Hello
adab (Urdu)
Goodbye
kuda hafiz
Mr
Sri (Hindi)
Sahib (Urdu)
Mrs (Hindi)
Sri
Sahiba (Urdu)
How much?
kiraya kitna hai (Hindi)
I'll just watch thanks.
mai sirf dekhuga
No I'm not going to India.
ji nahi, mai bharat mahi jaugi (Hindi)
to throw pearls before the swine
bhais ke age bin bajana (Hindi)
According to what I've read, Hindi is conventionally written in the
Devangiri script which
gradually evolved in north India from Vedic times. The same script is
used to write Sanskrit,
Nepali and Marathi. It's also similar to scripts that are used to write
Urdu, Bengali,
Assamese, Gujarati and Punjabi. The Devangiri script is written left to
right.
Apparently in a comparatively small number of words both ai and au may
be pronounced
as dipthongs. Go figure.
P.S. How's Mullquest?
Notes:
The term 'wallah' is an extremely useful adjectival suffix - walla - in
both Hindi and Urdu
means 'that fellow' or 'the fellow who does that', e.g. 'Tat Wallah
Baba', or 'The fellow of
the Tat' (transcendenatal absolute) or 'That bright fellow from Tejas'. LoL!
predilection:
noun
plural noun: predilections
1. a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of
something.
"my predilection for Asian food"
synonyms: liking, fondness, preference, partiality, taste, penchant,
weakness, soft spot,
fancy, inclination, leaning, bias, propensity, bent, proclivity,
predisposition, appetite
"a predilection for shellfish"
antonyms: dislike
https://www.google.com/search/predliction
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On 9/24/2013 1:16 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have nothing to add. I'm just a simple wanna-be-linguist, not a
philosopher...
--- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Card writes:
>
> This is really "funny"?
>
> I'll try to explain it as best as I can...
>
> When Moses asks what the name of the Burning Bush is, He replies
>
> ehyee asher ehyee (I shall be what I shall be: I am what I am).
Sounds like the right translation to me... :-)
http://de-motivational-posters.com/images/burning-bush-bible-belt-all-the-way.jpg
Thank God that woman is wearing asbestos underwear.
funny de motivational poster: Burning Bush - Bible belt all the way.
