Re: India free education bill tabled

On Aug 7, 3:20 pm, ModerateMallu <KalluMallu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Romanise wrote:
On Aug 7, 7:55 am, ModerateMallu <KalluMallu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't really have a good scheme of "romanising" the "Indian" alphabet.
I have seen that Ranjit takes pains to use upper and lower case letters
to distinguish consonants and long/short vowels. The mixed case appears
a little ugly to me. Easier would be to adopt one "lipi" for all Indian
languages -

Malayalam covers the waterfront in terms of sounds :-)

This I did not get.

Ranjit has been improving his transliteration scheme, it appeared.

He too is a Mallu, but from Madras.

To make it neat people used a dot under t d l to make them retroflex.
and a bar over a, i, u to show them long.

Lot of Sanskrit got printed that way.


I take 100% responsibility for all the keystrokes. However, the content
is somebody else's :-)

सर्वेशामेव needs to other kind of श,  ષ, I think.

My bad.

You have Sanskrit verses in memory?

What I was referring to was श for ष adopted by Gujarati Language
Emperor Umashankar in his surname. There was a Hindi Emperor named Dr
Nagendra who was cut to size by Mallu Economist A N Raj while both
were in Delhi University. In Examination Mal-practice no one could out-
do Nagendra.

No spell checker for Sanskrit :-( You're right. It should be ष
and not श. Forgot to hold down the h key while typing. BTW, it was a
typo and not an attempt to Mallunise Sanskrit. Ekdam Sanskrut pandit
maafik likhne ka. Naheen to yahaan ka Sanskrut public apan ko joota
khilaayega (kolhapuri naheen) :-)

I am not a purist when it comes to languages - I'll happily mix several
languages in one sentence (in conversations only), and have myself
understood without a problem. Writing is a bit harder. The long and
short vowels are less of an issue compared to the unaspirated and
aspirated consonants.

Natural for those raised in Dravidian languages.

I think only Tamil has that issue. All other South Indian languages have
  alpaprana/mahaprana consonants, and are pronounced correctly too.
People who have the most difficulty are angrezi-medium macaulayites ;-)

People born in English speaking environment and starting their written
word in English can save lot of their growing up energy if its
spelling is simplified. Literacy in Spanish has gained tremendously by
simplification. Taking clue from that recently Brazil simplified
Portuguese even by adding one or two letters.

I think American is quite distinct from English of the UK, and favors a
(nearly) phonetic approach. Hmmm, maybe Sanskrit should be language of
the US too, or maybe residents here will work towards getting the US to
adopt Devanagari to write American. ;-)

English falls short in vowel department and less so but still in
consonant department, with some superfluous consonants. Here too it is
the vested interest of the ELITE that keep ordinary folks less
literate.
.

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