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It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be.
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.
(Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects
Verbing weirds language.
nihari, a rich beef curry,
She is written in a foreign tongue.
I'm pretty good with languages.
Coffee is a language in itself.
People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.
If Nepal is to become a new Nepal, she must first become free from ethnic segregation.
Samassi Abou don't speak the English too good.
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly.
In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton's songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!
A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
Stop being silly, her name is Reshidatu. It is a pity that our official language is English, and a greater pity that our three major languages is the WaZoBia.
Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.
Bhagavan - in Tibetan, "One who has destroyed the four Maras,"2 which are death, distraction, pride, and the emotional obscurations. The
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off.
It is typically Norwegian to be good
It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.
I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.
nunna daul Tsuny in the Cherokee language,
I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.
Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.
The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Khalepa ta kala
"Beauty is harsh
The most satisfying of languages, Latin.
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.
There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.
Well, I'm English.
I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. - unknown
Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."
Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.
We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
Ashurbanipal." Oh, baby, keep talking dirty to me.
The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.
I'm a multi-lingual Kundalini-dancing shapeshifter to the 69th degree.
I know French, Italian, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Scottish, English, and American English.
I'm cunninglingual.
I want to start where language ends.
What the ancients called Bogan, as separate from Ashla.
You drink a language, you speak a language, and one day it owns you;
It's it, it's them it really doesn't matter. The languages are complex, as far I can tell.
depends on all of the people who use the language.
Tibetan thangka paintings and derive strength from their beauty.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.
Kalevala, whereas
In India, I'm always 'Aruna Roy's husband.'
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Siarad Cymraeg?" said Old Shacob.
"He wants to know if you speak Welsh," said the surveyor.
"NO!" yelled the official at the old man before him.
"Tamn it all; his language, man!" shouted Dan. "What you expect in Wales - Chinese, or what?!
Tamilians love to irritate non-Tamil speakers by speaking in Tamil only.
God made me an Indian.
Ay, is it not a language I speak?
If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.
I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir.
My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
There aren't a lot of humans who speak more than one dialect of Forshan. I know all four of the major ones.'
'Impressive,' Duvall Said.
'I'm good with my tongue,' Dahl said.
'Now who's being forward?' Duvall asked.
Language is not the frosting, it's the cake.
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?"
"Elvish.
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
Charlie cursed in English as there are no really good Navajo curse words.
The joke is that one Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis is an argument, three Bengalis is a political party,
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
Different languages cut the world into different slices.
Irish as a Paddy's pig.
I just love dialects; they're really fun.
Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.
Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.
It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.
I am an Indian to the core.
It's a myth that Sanskrit is the best language for writing computer code. Patriotic Indians have spread this lie for many years - Bill Gates
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?
It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
she's part Armenian,
This little book aims to introduce the Thai language. It is intended for those who know nothing about it, but are keen to learn. We use the method of selecting 100 key words, and using these to make up sentences and present a range of expressions, so that you can "say 1000 things.
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
languages as Asians, who outnumber them nearly four to one.121 Linguistic diversity is not only a sign of cultural isolation and fragmentation, it contributes to the barriers
The only international language in the world is a child's cry,
Sindhu but other great empires
Since God doesn't have a name, I'll give him the name of Simptar. It doesn't come from any language. I give myself the name Amptala. As far as I know no such name exists. Perhaps in a language earlier than Sanskrit, an it-language.