Rama Varma - Seattle June 12, 2010

[mahakavi]

As I mentioned earlier, gout is caused by uric acid accumulation. It does not taste good. Since it (French) is not to your taste it is the 'gout bit' for "taste". parle vous francais? non?
gout (F) --- taste, inclination, style etc.
Au revoir

[arasi]

I had no doubt about your 'gout'--
True, I've no taste for the 'gout' you refer to--
Toodleloo, herewith, l'anglais I'll stick to

[cmlover]

arasiji 'aap kyOn hamaarI rAShTra bhAShA mEn nahI bOltE hain?"

[arasi]

bOlte bOlte thak gayi
sunte sunte jAn sakun,
is liye 'phir milEnGe' (au revoir)
tO acchi bAt hai, samjhun
Rather than adieu! (a final goodbye!)

[Nick H]

arasi, I think you mean hereafter, don't you?

This thread is breading ground of linguistic controversy!

(and the stress in that word is on the second syllable, not the first :devil: )

< wanders off muttering controversy, controversy, controversy...>

[arasi]

Thanks Nick, the most english of us all. I've changed the word to 'hitherto'!
Super-seniors at times mean a word and say a different similar sounding word. Happens in our age group, I'm afraid.
An aside among asides: you are not capable of wearing Harimau's patented mask for long, even if you try to have a go

[Nick H]

Arasi, there are plenty of "senior moments" in my life, and many of them leave me feeling very silly indeed.

What's more, there is an entirely different gap between thinking and saying to the one between thinking any typing. Both are dangerous!

The thing I find some comfort in --- is that I was almost as bad at 20!

[cacm]

Nick&Arasi,
As you might know "Information Theory" clearly shows- thanks to poineer Shannon & work of others - ALL of us are part of the maladies of "Leaky Systems" resulting in non-perfect transfer of information but very few realise it & fewer still acknowledge it-........ VKV

[mahakavi]

[quote="Nick H"]

This thread is breading ground of linguistic controversy!

quote]

You mean "breeding"---don't you? We don't have "dough" to make bread here nor the facilities.

[Nick H]

Oh! You have caught me out now twice in a few minutes!

My brain is not very good at spelling --- and my fingers are worse!

[arasi]

Nick,
I knew that moment was coming--your being breaded (and grilled? )

[rshankar]

I knew that moment was coming--your being breaded (and grilled? )

Is being breaded and grilled better than being bred and buttered? (The spellings stand!)

[cmlover]

can you legitimately say breaded
Or can bread be used as a verb? In sanskrit you can do that using any noun as a verb (called denominative use...)
Are we ready to be moved to the language thread?

[mahakavi]

can you legitimately say breaded
Or can bread be used as a verb? In sanskrit you can do that using any noun as a verb (called denominative use...)

Of course you can! If one can use butter, sugar, milk in verb forms why not bread?
Webster again to the rescue.
bread--- verb transitive. to coat with bread crumbs.
You can make bread upmA using the bread crumbs along with vegetables. Here you are breading the vegetables.
Hope Rama Varma likes bread upmA

[cmlover]

Agreed.
Can we also use a proper noun as a verb too!
For example can I say I am getting mahakavied to imply that i am becoming mahakavi?
In Sanskrit for example you can say 'sa kriShNati' (he is becoming krishna or acting like krishna)...
In fact it can be used as any regular verb and declined in past/present/future tenses

[ShrutiLaya]

Thanks Nick, the most english of us all. I've changed the word to 'hitherto'!
Super-seniors at times mean a word and say a different similar sounding word. Happens in our age group, I'm afraid.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master that’s all.”

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!”

(From Through the looking glass and what Alice found there, of course)

- Sreenadh



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[mahakavi]

Agreed.
Can we also use a proper noun as a verb too!
For example can I say I am getting mahakavied to imply that i am becoming mahakavi?
In Sanskrit for example you can say 'sa kriShNati' (he is becoming krishna or acting like krishna)...
In fact it can be used as any regular verb and declined in past/present/future tenses

Yes, in this day and age, anything goes!
Remember Robert Bork, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan and rejected by the US Senate! From then on anybody who is rejected for public office is termed being "Borked". There are other proper nouns too that have been used as a verb depending on the context. For example you can say "Madoffed" if someone is involved in a crime and sent to jail.

[kssr]

I know only of "Bobbitised". Sorry- Cannot explain the context here!!

[mahakavi]

kssr:
You certainly remember how to take care of the "family jewels"

[arasi]

sreenadh,
I am glad you ushered in Alice! Well, we need Lewis Carrol (in real life Math Professor Dodgon) to put everyhting in perspective about language--that we don't get too carried away with being most rational with such a growing, live wire thing. Of course, Carrol, Lear and others did it in irrational ways!