Comments on: Chipping the web – best regards http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806 A tiny spark of wit for a highly flammable world Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:53:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39628 Mohan Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:39:14 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39628 Lol… Yeah yeah :P

]]> By: sterling http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39612 sterling Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:41:50 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39612 Thy words shine as the very sun of truth.

]]> By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39532 Mohan Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:25:10 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39532 Lol… Yeah, Shakespeare’s the man! No man alive or dead made characters and emotions like Shakespeare!

]]> By: Chipping the web - the last tablet -- Chip’s Quips http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39448 Chipping the web - the last tablet -- Chip’s Quips Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:58:46 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39448 [...] Best regards: one interpretation for the ham radio expression “73“. I like the 1857 version: “My love to you!” [...]

]]> By: sterling http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39409 sterling Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:22:45 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39409 It’s funny, I’ve been reading Shakespeare lately, with breakfast. Even with the archaic English, his powers of expression are hard to beat.

]]> By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39404 Mohan Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:11:30 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39404 Damn! I should stop being a die hard Shakespeare fan!

]]> By: sterling http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39197 sterling Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:23:54 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39197 Looks like Shakespeare borrowed it from even earlier sources.

]]> By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39192 Mohan Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:03:59 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39192 Its actually a phrase… Derived by good ol’ Shakespeare himself :)

Thats because in Shakespeare’s times, Greek was considered, well, a pretty tough language, and was limited to the elite few… So anything spoken in Greek was, well, Greek to the people :P

]]> By: sterling http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39189 sterling Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:44:43 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39189 “Greek to me”

It’s funny to me that one of the most logically constructed languages in history has become the subject of that phrase. I’d vote instead for one of the Celtic languages for obscurity and irregularity.

“It’s Cumbric to me.”

]]> By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39186 Mohan Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:18:32 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39186 Wow thats nice :) Great thought there :)

Yeah… That is true… Languages are fascinating. Unfortunately the only 2 languages I’m fluent with are English and my mother tounge, Malayalam. I understand Hindi when I hear it. Tamil too. French can pass ok. But everything else is greek to me :P

]]> By: sterling http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39182 sterling Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:21:47 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39182 Interesting coincidence (or is it?)

I don’t really know Hindi, but I’ve studied the histories of many languages and picked up a little of each. I find language fascinating, as a vessel and a container of thoughts. I like to try on the point of view that would find natural a language that seems strange to me initially. It opens the mind to thinking in new ways.

]]> By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39136 Mohan Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:56:17 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39136 Woah! How do you know Hindi? ;)

BTW, Shukran is the Hindi word for Saturn.

]]> By: sterling http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39043 sterling Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:53:46 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39043 Oh yes, I know that Hindi is not derived from Arabic. But the word Shukriyaa is derived from the Arabic word Shukran. A more pure Hindi word would be Dhanyavaad.

]]> By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39042 Mohan Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:32:57 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39042 Lol :D Its not a bad habit… Makes your readers more intellectual… They’ll become too lazy if you give them ALL the information :P

And no, Arabi is not the root for Hindi. Hindi is a language derived from the oldest language of the world, Sanskrit :) Arabi is a mixed for of Babylon, Sanskrit and Persian. :P

]]> By: sterling http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39041 sterling Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:18:11 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39041 Sometimes I like being a little obscure for my readers — it’s a bad habit.

Not knowing where you were in India, I took what I considered the safest route: a Hindi word based on an Arabic root. Now that I know better, I can say:

Nandi, Mohan.

]]> By: Mohan http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-39040 Mohan Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:12:39 +0000 http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=806#comment-39040 Hey! Whats with the Hindi? :D Lol… Shouldnt you be saying that “Shukriyaa” means “Thank You” in Hindi?

BTW, India has 27 official languages, and my mother tounge is a language called Malayalam, not Hindi. In Malayalam, “thank you” would be “nandi”. :)

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