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by gpraghu 2y ago
A touching article! I have enjoyed similar times with my grandpa. On the topic of Cobol, I simply don't understand why people hate it so much. It has a shallow learning curve like Python, is self-documenting enough that one doesn'
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by gpraghu 4y ago
This is a shoddy article, and conflates unrelated issues. First, it wasn’t a software issue at all that grounded the plane. Second, Boeing has categorically said that MCAS
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by gpraghu 5y ago
This has been an incredible discussion, thank you all for contributing. I hope my original point was made, which was that there is often bias when the western world talks about “ancient”, and I place the blame squarely on the imperialistic
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by gpraghu 5y ago
Songuahkrito is not Samskruta but Bengali. So what’s your point?
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by gpraghu 5y ago
You are almost completely wrong. How do you account for the precision of Panini as the previous commenter pointed out? How do you know to postulate that? There is NO other formalized grammar akin to Panini, so don’t judge Samskruta by other
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by gpraghu 5y ago
It seems to me that you are proving my point.
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by gpraghu 5y ago
Vedic Samskrutam was a different language than Paninis classical Samskrutam. We need to recognize size that.
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by gpraghu 5y ago
It is NOT Sanskrit, which was foisted on the world by the british. Please be respectful and call it by it real name, given by Panini which literally codified and formalized it.
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by gpraghu 5y ago
I don't understand why an academic linguist is more qualified than a traditionally educated scholar in India, who has deep knowledge of the classics. I don't deny that there were likely some influences, but the care and precision
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by gpraghu 5y ago
How fossilized? While it is not used as an everyday language, there is a yet growing library of literature, and vigorous philosophical debate that happens in Samskruta. BTW, an unrelated rant, the other thing that grinds on me is that the G
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by gpraghu 5y ago
In classical recitation, with ghanapatha and other techniques, I would expect that pronunciation is strict, meters are accounted for, and things have remained relatively unchanged in the way the Vedas and Upanishads are recited. Unfortunate
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by gpraghu 5y ago
Could you elaborate please? How do you establish that?
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by gpraghu 5y ago
You mean “What did ancient European languages sound like” perhaps? I would submit that Samskruta (NOT the anclicised Sanskrit) sounds exactly like how it did in ancient times. How come there is no discussion of that at all?