Showing posts with label Language and Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language and Literature. Show all posts
"Hi da, good morning. How was your weekend?" while I ping a friend who is pucca Chennaiite . "It was good da. Very sleepy, though." "Full day roaming huh?" "ille da" "pinne" "kalada pothindirukka da.. was talking till 5am!" "what does it mean...
During my higher primary schooling days in 5th Standard, there was a new joinee in my class. As kids, we would address any new joinee as new gal or new boy. The NEW gal was grabbed by bunch of gals and the circle...
My friend Hari, who already owns a blog of his own poems, started few blogs which provide translations of poems along with script, written in various regional languages which include Hindi, Bangla, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil. Though, I can't read the script written...
Just tried this new invention by google: http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic which translates the words typed in English to Hindi. I copied and pasted one of my favourite songs with English words in the editor and the result: जीवन के सफ़र में रही मिलते हैं भिचार...
During my school days, whenever I gazed at a rupee note(well, Rs 1, Rs 2 notes were very much in circulation at that time) always wished I could write my name in all the fourteen languages which were printed on all the Rupee...