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  • Hell, people -- I took a graduate course on the book, have read it twice, and watched two movie versions of the story ... yet still the middle third of the book may as well be written in sanskrit for all the sense it makes.

    peculiar and correct, or possibly, justified and ancient 2004

  • Frank Rizzo funny I was not aware that anyone in the world spoke modern english in 1200 AD!! what is true is that it was in use in 1625 but was supplanted by “lend” … speak olde English it ye would but you may as well be talking in sanskrit!!!

    loan is a verb! « Motivated Grammar 2008

  • Avatar is a sanskrit word meaning a divine being which takes human form for the enlightening of the masses.

    Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion 2010

  • Might I add that the word 'twenty' and 'thousand' in Vedic sanskrit never seem to show lengthening in the word before it, while other words with initial *HC most definitely do, and often too.

    Against the *dkmtóm camp 2010

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    Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato' 2010

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    Sowing wild oats and plowing the fields 2010

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    A new post on Pre-Greek place-names 2010

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    A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement 2010

  • Gimbutas academia algonquian arabic assyrian athabaskan bureaucracy celtic credentialism crete dictionary elamite esperanto feminism gender geography isogloss language hat languages logic mandarin maya mediterranean mycenaean north caucasian persian phonetics proto-steppe racism sanskrit senet venetic

    Blogger reluctantly fights spam 2010

  • I may just get sanskrit on my inner thigh and swirl this journey around my head for later.

    Archive 2009-09-01 floreta 2009

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  • In the Devan�?garī script, संस�?कृतम�? (saṃskṛtam)

    December 15, 2007

  • Samskrtam means cultured.

    December 19, 2007