On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Nishant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I am not very well qualified to comment on other Indian languages > but at least with Gujarati, there is this very interesting process of > cultural elipsis where the 'negative words' are generally only in the > implication rather than in the utterance.
Tamil is not squeamish about words. Cheeni
