tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post2007884413432481936..comments2024-03-25T12:50:53.554+05:30Comments on Ajivaka Wallacian ஆசிவக வாலேசன்: Mallinga, Mark Antony and SamskrtamVarahaMihira Gopuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08159184223145034793noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post-21873456001299190482020-04-25T20:36:50.099+05:302020-04-25T20:36:50.099+05:30ha hi hu pronunciation is very South Indian like n...ha hi hu pronunciation is very South Indian like nu tu endings for words like swamin and tasmaat when they are the last words of a sloka. <br /><br />They visarga really takes less than a full matra, which is why during it can be replaced by half-consonant like s in namaste or r in heturbhuH VarahaMihira Gopuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08159184223145034793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post-37612734197837915172020-04-23T14:08:29.007+05:302020-04-23T14:08:29.007+05:30"There is not a full finish of the breath of ..."There is not a full finish of the breath of air coming from the mouth to finish these sounds. That is why the separate sound ha ह is not used to spell these words when they are written."<br /><br />Wasn't aware of this. Thinking about it now, I pronounce it fully as "Ramaha" and not "Ramah". And my reasoning of having a separate Visarga in addition to ह sound was to be able to use the same symbol to make it follow the sound of the preceding vowel e.g. Harihi, Guruhu, Ramaha. Especially, if you look at words like Harihi or Guruhu - I don't see a way to pronounce "hi" or "hu" midway unlike "ha" sound where you can stop abruptly with "h". So, a little confused still. But it was just my own intuitive understanding, never really gave it so much thought. I'll verify. <br /> Shantalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02251197087245816892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post-59110517961053496802014-04-13T02:07:45.597+05:302014-04-13T02:07:45.597+05:30I mentioned Bush only as a typical example of a wh...I mentioned Bush only as a typical example of a whole tribe of American whites: forty being softened to fordy, hakuna matata softened into hakuna madada. I was there in a Canadian movie theatre years ago when the 'Lion King' of Walt Disney was on the screen: the lion cub being taught to say 'matata' was repeatedly saying 'madada' and the Ottawan audience broke into laughter. Back home we do have our Keralite saying 'simble' 'fundamendal' things. At this point I resist my near-infinite temptatation to diversify to tongue-in-cheek essaying of the mal-delectable pn-Indian prolixity of English pronunciations:- from the yell/yem/yen of the SouthIndian, 'angLe, 'tabLe, simpLe' etc. with retroflex L by the Tamils, 'papper', 'arathworum'[earth worm'] of the Telugus, ''colleze', 'vizianagaram', 'zee-rho-Jed' for 'g-rho-z' [Newtonian hydrostatics formula] by the northern seemaandhras, 'caliculation', 'saaturday', currad[for curd]' 'simpal' 'tabal' of the Kannadiga, 'soykal, toypwroyter, naees[nice], etc. from the Hindi Belt, 'bwoy', 'lawyyer', 'pleayyer', 'labour' for labourer and neighbourer for neighbour by the Pnjaabi, 'ischool and ispoon etc of the UP versus sakool, sapoon of the pnjaaabi and so on and so forth. I have a near-thesis-presntation on this acknowledged with a gluck by [now late] Khushwant Singh to whom I had sent a rejoinder to one of his instalments of 'Malice Towards One and All'. Years later I had sent a similar rejoinder to one of the letters in Madras Musings - and the MMM bottomlined it with the exhortation that correspondence on the subject cease. N.Balasubramanianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037145946437492885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post-45831688487649394012014-04-02T19:05:16.775+05:302014-04-02T19:05:16.775+05:30I have been using Normal font size in the editor b...I have been using Normal font size in the editor blogger provides. I don't know why that appears small. Since Muthu called me and observed that zooming will bring a horizontal scroll bar into force, I have used the large sized text for this blog. I may use this for other future posts too. Does anyone feel the size of my blog text is too small?VarahaMihira Gopuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08159184223145034793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post-4683856989363592942014-04-02T15:19:21.205+05:302014-04-02T15:19:21.205+05:30Muthu, Readers: You can try Ctrl+, that is press t...Muthu, Readers: You can try Ctrl+, that is press the "Ctrl" and "+" keys to increase the size of the font on the page on Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, on PCs running Windows. Mobile phones will have suitable options, probably just a touch-based zoom. Ctrl- is supposed to shrink the text, but is not doing so: I wonder why.<br /><br />If you are using Chrome browser, you can use the Zoom feature to make the text bigger or smaller by 110%, 125% etc. Click the the menu bar on the right corner - the three horizontal bars on the right top corner. The drop down menu items include New Tab, New Window and so on including "Zoom".<br />Internet Explorer also has a similar Zoom option if you click the Gear icon next to the House and Star Icons on the right top corner. Firefox does not have them, I wonder why.VarahaMihira Gopuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08159184223145034793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183388327040813760.post-87457986736657961192014-04-02T10:04:25.427+05:302014-04-02T10:04:25.427+05:30Annae nice posting; please increase the size of th...Annae nice posting; please increase the size of the fonts and do consider rolling back to positive contrastmuthuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17803850702334281687noreply@blogger.com