e.g. ill-gottenAnd what instance is this? You have gotten curiosity piqued
See here: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/got.html
e.g. ill-gottenAnd what instance is this? You have gotten curiosity piqued
r-t is halfway there --- or two-thirds, depending on how one counts the words.sureshvv wrote:And what instance is this? You have gotten curiosity piqued
It seems to be so. It is so common in America, I did not even realize it is no longer used by the Brits. Shame, shame I would have expected Americans to shorten stuff and get rid of anachronisms but here it is the opposite.Nick H wrote:
>Someone who worked at a call center would have learnt all this and gotten them corrected in a couple of months
Only the ones working for the American companies! The Brits no longer use the word gotten except in one specific instance .
I thought "We are like this only" was a general Indian thing? Or is that some other root?MaheshS wrote:The use of the word "only" sometimes is a direct translation for emphasis in Tamil, as in, "It's in Adi talam only".
Very old fashioned, but yes, it is British English. Usually written as "inst". "ult," I think, means last month. This is the stuff of solicotor's offices!One word I still come across in India, while perfectly legitimate, I have not heard over in the UK - Instant, in reference to the current month.
They simply don't use the word 'queue' - instead they say 'line'!I don't know how Americans spell queue: kew?
keerthi wrote:something like the seven lOka-s of indian myth..?
bhUr-lOka, bhuvar-lOka, suvarlOka, maharlOka, janalOka, tapOlOka, satyalOka...
The Western day names are a combination of planetary and Norse mythology names. We remember gods every day, but we don't remember them at all!vasanthakokilam wrote:What is the reason for other cultures also to come to this 7 days in a week.
And the 'Satur'day, 'Sun'day, 'Mon'day matches our naming with the grahams. Is there anything interesting there how they got named that way in India and elsewhere?
That is one interesting wiki page and quite an enjoyable read indeed. Hope it is factually correct, it is sometimes hard to say with wikipedia.Pratyaksham Bala wrote:It is worth enjoying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names
Random question:vasanthakokilam wrote:The order of the days are explained like this:
Organize the seven entities in this order: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Moon . ( the order is based on the farthest distance from earth to the closest. The reasoning sort of works from an earth-centric view. Sun is a problem but we understand now why they perceived the Sun that way.
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