Smaller than Life
Why a blog? Simple. Cacoethes Scribendi -- the urge to write! My literary pretensions and caprices bring me here. Like any writer I write to be read. All my posts, though fettered to my small world and trivially myopic, will live and yearn that somebody connects to them someday. Cognitive frenzies, sardonic musings, aimless banters, incoherent ramblings and trivial indulgences; this is simply an episodic narrative of my trivial world -- in a grain of sand… Smaller than Life.

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When I am dead,
I hope it is said,
'His sins were scarlet,
but his books were read'.

- Hillaire Belloc

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me, --
The simple news that Nature told
With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

- Emily Dickinson

The thoughts of our past years
          in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction

- William Wordsworth

Monday, July 05, 2004
 
Different different new new Words!

Apparently the Oxford English Dictionary is including words of Indian origin in its latest edition. For the time being though, I think I will stick to English. :) The Hindu's write-up:


More Indian words in Oxford dictionary

NEW DELHI, JULY 4.

If you tell a stunningly beautiful girl that she has a `va-va-voom' figure, the chances are the damsel will give you a cold stare and mock at your sense of English.

But wait till July 7 when the newest edition of Concise Oxford English Dictionary is officially launched here. The lexicon includes this word which is actually a compliment to a beautiful girl.

`Va-va-voom' means the quality of being exciting, vigorous and sexually attractive and derives its genesis from the sound of a car engine being revved.

But what is likely to cockle many an Indian heart is that the Queen's English is now being profoundly influenced by Hindi words.

Award winning novels of the growing tribe of Indian and Diaspora writers, such as Salman Rushdie, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy have ensured that words of Indian origin become part of English.

Among the new Indian words that make an entry into the lexicon are `Bhagwan' (Indian God), `bhakti' (devotional worship directed to a supreme deity), `bhajan' (a devotional song), bhang (cannabis) and `adda' (informal conversation). — UNI

- posted by Dileepan @ 4:00:00 am
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