@JasperLoy Well, it can't be worse than Arabic (which I study and can actually say something about). In the case of Arabic it is often what I would call "dangerously" wrong.
@Man_From_India that's alright, I know about Hinglish ;-)
Devanagari is the script used to write the Hindi or Hindustani language in the country of India. The virtually same language is called Urdu in the country of Pakistan. It's a little stupid and confusing, but ... well ... shrug
@Man_From_India Hmm .... the important thing was the question mark at the end. The context is that the receiver of that gift is very likely expecting a gift that feels hard to the touch. But they're getting a piece of clothing, which feels soft to the touch. Hence, "not what you were expecting?"
There is visible difference in hindi text and urdu text. If both are devnagari text, then I guess visual difference is not enough to tell that what is devnagari and what is not :)
@JasperLoy buddy of mine got himself a teacher for chinese [who he then moved on to marry, but that's another story] and reads it now. he bursts into laughter whenever he sees a westerner with a "chinese" tattoo
@Man_From_India there's enough german girls who can be dazzled by yoga, ayurveda and stuff like that. my neighborhood has a german yoga teacher with three kids from two indian men. bit sad that neither of these relationships has worked out :(
@Man_From_India omg no! i just read english translations of his writings. i only know ABOUT bengali :P
"So soft. Not anything you were expecting? Open and see!"
If this is too difficult to translate I can try to rephrase...
The body has immense self-healing ability. I've always believed in that. And with Yoga and Ayurverda it might be that they help the body engage that self-healing.
It destroyed my career and many things. But I am by stroke of luck started another career, not so great and glamorous neither lucrative. But I can manage :-)
Oh! AS! Damn, so sorry to hear about that. But then it also makes a LOT of sense that both Yoga and Ayurveda would help with that. You'd be surprised by the way - some physicians in Germany have started to recommend and incorporate these two into their therapies.
Hmmm tell me about it... Been trying to start doing Yoga for years. Usually I do, like, a 2 week course, or follow a teacher on YouTube for a week or so. And then my spirits go down again and I stop. Stupid depressions I guess...
Here I got admission to a yoga instructor. She seems to know a lot. But my condition was not improving by any means. I contacted her not when my AS was detected, pr when the suffering got intense. I contacted her when I started to feel slight pain initially.
How I got a teacher and Ayurveda doctor. He is completely different.
He is tough and he will touch you and you will feel the pain is gone. I don't know how.
I don't know a lot about AS. What I do know is that it's a form of arthritis. And Ayurvedic massages seem to work for arthritis and rheuma patients in cases where "western" school medicine fails to come up with a remedy. There's some studies ongoing as to why that is, but so far noone really knows.
The Independent: Indonesia tsunami - live updates: At least 222 people killed as rescuers struggle to reach disaster survivors. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indonesia-tsunami-live-latest-update-krakatoa-volcano-eruption-death-toll-injured-missing-sunda-a8696766.html
From what I've gathered, no one quite saw the tsunami coming. It all happened too quickly, during the night, and the volcano, along with the eruption which triggered the slide, which in turn caused the tsunami, was a mere 2 minutes away from the place it struck.
Or something like that. So, quick and unexpected. It's terrible but I think the government is to blame for letting the people stay that close to a place which the tsunami could strike at any moment. A similar, but less catastrophic thing happens here, where they let people build houses in areas where rivers regularly flood.
> To me, the definition of real love, is from whom I have inherited the power to produce gametes and to whom I will pass on them to create a live soul.
I think the sentence is incorrect for three main reasons.
1. The subject and the object is not properly matched. Like because of the rest of the sentence, the object should describe the subject, not the origin, which is the case here.
2. After "is" there should have a "from". But even if it is included the sentence has other problems.
3. The "from whom ..." Part is an open interrogative and that should not come there in this sentence. Well, if you ask me, an open interrogative could still be okay if another "from" was added.
These are just my thoughts. Please correct me if I am wrong. And also please tell if I am right :-)
Otorhinolaryngology is a transparent compound and so isn’t especially hard to understand, but English speakers tend to say ear–nose–throat or ENT anyway.
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Just shorter and easier to remember and say, I guess :-)
Word of the midnight: multiplex family (a family in which a person diagnosed with a complex genetic disorder has a 1st- or 2nd-degree relative with the same diagnosis)
We say the same thing but we reverse the order of the last two for some reason (ear–throat–nose)... and I hadn't noticed that until you said it. I think it's because the literal translation doesn't sound that good to us, haha. That is, the stress is a bit off.
In fact, ear–throat–nose sounds better to me in English as well.
But I concede that it's easier to pronounce the normal version.
It seems that Japanese is the most difficult language to learn for the native English speaker, yet you are a moderator on both these sites @snailboat, lol.
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