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What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?
If there were a list, it would help surely to offer a comprehensive answer.
The point about tradition, like ritual and habit, is the describing of practising of any tradition in detail. All the moves one makes in following or not following a tradition.
Here’s one top of the mind. I did not learn or was prompted to learn our regional language or dialect one may say. MEWARI.
My parents speak in Mewari when they meet certain people, but I speak in Hindi. But wait, is this a matter of tradition? Language is a part of tradition, but speaking with others in Mewari, is that a matter of tradition?
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Sources of Words
That title shouldn’t be confused with some popular meanings.
For those who are good at language, histories or etymological accounts of words would count as sources of words. In this sense, sources of words feel like origins of words.
For those who are looking to improve their language skills, especially in the context of a non-native language, they wouldn’t even be aware of words. They need to come across words. Consciously knowing the sources of words, so that they could come across words, would help. Sources of words for such folks would just be where the words are available in abundance, where words can drown them, where they have to wade through words and words, plenty of them.
Sources of words are not origins.
Sources of words are huge collections of words. One would point to the dictionary. Sure. And there are non-textbooks. Sources of words are containers of words. Any word can pop-open a container of words.
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2 kinds of English language speakers in India…
2 kinds of English language speakers in India:
One that couples expressive words without any expression. Other that couples expressive words with equally expressive expressions.
Between the 2 ends, may exist a surprising mix of speakers.
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Which expressions sound good as opposites of the…
Which expressions sound good as opposites of the expression ‘hyperlinks’?
Calm-links
Quiet-links
Under-links
Bottom-links
Grounded-links
Base-links
Lazy-links
Leisure-linksAnything else that strikes you?
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unlinks?
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‘un’ normally doesn’t leave a link. But then, to think of ‘unlinks’, the plural. That makes ‘un’ something else.
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Oh these ecommerce CMSes are so sleep inducing…
Oh, these ecommerce CMSes are so sleep-inducing. Takes a lot of time to learn the funny skills of operating these complicated machines. And words that make up the language that make us use these machines, you don’t want to deal with them. They obscure it so that they can take the money to operate the obscurity on your behalf.
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What Mr William Faulkner’s The Sound and The…
What Mr. William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury achieved! Stream of consciousness, they say. Alright, so be it.
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I remember Julien Gracq right now I want…
I remember Julien Gracq right now. I want to settle the score with expressions!
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When I look at Chinese or Japanese or…
When I look at Chinese or Japanese or Korean writing, I can’t attach any sound to the letters or words I see.
With that kind of unfamiliarity, I must figure an immersive path to learn any of these.
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