Post by madanmohandas on Oct 1, 2007 13:50:47 GMT -6
There seems to have been in the past a reluctance to encourage the study of Sanskrt. The custodians of the ancient texts did not seem to want everybody to be able to read them. We are put off sometimes by being told it is far too difficult to learn or there are so many meanings to one word it is almost impossible to decipher. Well I'm no Sanskrt scholar, but from learning Bengali over the years I found that I have automatically gained some knowledge of Sanskrt. My point being that the study of Sanskrt should be very much encouraged.
English might be just as hard to learn if people didn't speak it all day.
This is something from Bloomsbury Grammar.
The English language
Some words have different meanings
and yet they're spelled the same.
A cricket is an insect,
to play it - is a game.
On every hand, in every land,
it's thoroughly agreed,
The English language to explain,
is very hard indeed.
Some peolple say that you're a dear,
yet dear is far from cheap.
A jumper is a thing you wear,
yet a jumper has to leap.
It's very clear, it's very queer,
and pray, who is to blame
for different meanings to some words
pronounced and spelled the same?
A little journey is a trip,
a trip is when you fall.
It doesn't mean you have to dance
whene'er you hold a ball.
Now here's a thing that puzzles me:
musicians of good taste
Will very often form a band-
I've one around my waste!
You spin a top, go for a spin,
or spin a yarn maybe-
Yet every spin's a different spin,
as you can plainly see.
Now here's a most peculiar thing,
'twas told me as a joke-
A dumb man wouldn't speak a word,
yet seized a wheel and spoke!
A door may often be ajar,
but give the door a slam
And then your nerves receive a jar-
and then there's jars of jam.
You've heard, of course, of traffic jams,
and jams you give your thumbs.
And Adders, too; one is a snake,
the other adds up sums.
A policeman is a copper,
it's a nickname (impolite!)
Yet a copper in the kitchen
is an article you light.
On every hand, in every land,
it's thoroughly agreed,
The English language to explain
is very hard indeed.
(Harry Hemsley)
I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through,
Well done, and now you wish perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead-
And only Scotsman call it deed!
Watch out for eat and eight and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and dept.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose-
Just look them up - and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
English might be just as hard to learn if people didn't speak it all day.
This is something from Bloomsbury Grammar.
The English language
Some words have different meanings
and yet they're spelled the same.
A cricket is an insect,
to play it - is a game.
On every hand, in every land,
it's thoroughly agreed,
The English language to explain,
is very hard indeed.
Some peolple say that you're a dear,
yet dear is far from cheap.
A jumper is a thing you wear,
yet a jumper has to leap.
It's very clear, it's very queer,
and pray, who is to blame
for different meanings to some words
pronounced and spelled the same?
A little journey is a trip,
a trip is when you fall.
It doesn't mean you have to dance
whene'er you hold a ball.
Now here's a thing that puzzles me:
musicians of good taste
Will very often form a band-
I've one around my waste!
You spin a top, go for a spin,
or spin a yarn maybe-
Yet every spin's a different spin,
as you can plainly see.
Now here's a most peculiar thing,
'twas told me as a joke-
A dumb man wouldn't speak a word,
yet seized a wheel and spoke!
A door may often be ajar,
but give the door a slam
And then your nerves receive a jar-
and then there's jars of jam.
You've heard, of course, of traffic jams,
and jams you give your thumbs.
And Adders, too; one is a snake,
the other adds up sums.
A policeman is a copper,
it's a nickname (impolite!)
Yet a copper in the kitchen
is an article you light.
On every hand, in every land,
it's thoroughly agreed,
The English language to explain
is very hard indeed.
(Harry Hemsley)
I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through,
Well done, and now you wish perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead-
And only Scotsman call it deed!
Watch out for eat and eight and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and dept.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose-
Just look them up - and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!