Thought oF The Day (Night Actually):
Of All Things That One Can Learn Through Reading, Behavior Is The Most Difficult To Learn. Nature Has Taught Us To Learn Behavior Primarily Through Experience.

Quote:
The End oF Humility Is The Beginning oF Defeat.

Addendum To Previous Post:
All Said And Done, I Refuse To Believe That We Are Victims oF Causality Or Else The Word Free Will Would Have No Meaning And Our Fate Would Have Been Precoded In The First Event In The History oF The Universe, The Big Bang.

Birth Order Prediction.

I have developed a theory using which I can tell to a fair degree of accuracy whether a person is an eldest or youngest sibling in a family, or if he/she is the only child depending on the gender of the sibling.

For starters, elder brothers with a younger sister are likely to be more frivolous particularly so if the age difference between them is great. Girls, if they only have a younger sister are likely to have the same fate of being more outgoing and frivolous, not so if their younger sibling is a male. The same goes for males who have an elder brother. The effect becomes greater with increasing age difference between the two.
The healthiest is when the age difference between the two siblings is close to 2-3 years and not more.

Thought oF The Day:
The Strongest Bonds In Humans Are Those That Bond Through Body Fluids. The Rest Are Are Either Fragile oR Merely Social Impositions.

Thought oF The Day:
Love Is Just Another Word For The Craving For Good Genes To Combine With Yours....

Thought oF The Day:

Life Is a Lesson.....Keep Learning....

Revelry:

It Was As If The Body Bags Were About To Open And All The Gore Exposed Beneath The Shine oF The Shimmering Plastic. You Always Knew That Inside Lies a Macabre Truth That Will Nauseate You The Moment You See It, But Nothing, No Mental Exercise Or Visualization Could Prepare You To Take The Sight oF The Viscera Right In Front Of You.
All You Could Do Is To Feel Like Regurgitating All That Had Been Taken In.

What Do You Call a Bengali Poet Who Writes Poetry For Free?
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A Free Bard....

Engineer:

An Engineer Always Solves The Problem,
If He Hasn't Yet, He Is Still Working On The Solution,
Or The Problem Is Not Important Enough.
There Is Nothing Like a Problem That Cannot Be Solved.

From The One-Liner Factory:

What Is Common To Jodha Akbar And a Stayfree Ad?
Both Are Period Films.

An Ode To The Engineering Mind:

Living Life Is Very Much Like Writing Computer Programs, Many Times When Your Programs Don't Work, You Feel That There Is Some Problem In The Way The System Works. Always It Turns Out That Your Logic Was Faulty, The Compiler, Processor And The OS, and Other Underlying Systems Obey Exactly The Same Rules For All Programs All The Time. The Underlying Systems Are Very Unforgiving Though, One Brace Put In The Wrong Place, Can Send The Whole Program Into Tailspin. So If Its Not Working For You, In All Probability You Have Got The Algorithm Wrong, Don't Cry, Re-engineer The Algorithm.

Evolution: Time Is The Real Sieve......

The Long Distance Runner Is Never Ruffled By The Scores oF Runners Forging Ahead oF Him In The Beginning oF The Race, And Foolishly Gloating over Their Ephemeral Lead Against Him. The Real Runner Maintains Pace In The Middle Leg oF The Run, And Then Absolutely Lets It Go In The Last Leg, By Which Time The Others Are Struggling To Just Keep Running...

Linguistic Adventures: Marathi, The Evolved Language

I am currently trying to pick up a little Marathi, with the singular motivation of being able to dominate my housemaid in petty arguments that keep erupting between us from time to time.
In the process I have come to have the feeling that Marathi is a very evolved language as compared to some of the other languages that I am familiar with, like English, Hindi and Gujarati.
What makes me say this is that I have found Marathi has words for very specific notions that would need a combination of words to express in other languages and these words make verbal expression far more tight and concise.
Consider the word in Marathi to denote a condition of having time to spare and being at leisure - Nimant (Matthus correct me if I am wrong.). So If I have to express the following English sentence in Marathi -
"I'll come to meet you when I have free time", the expression in Marathi will go thus
"Mee nimant yeto tula bhetayla".
The crispness with which this idea is expressed in Marathi is indeed remarkable.
There are other words for very specific notions in Marathi and one sometimes feels the need for such words in languages like Hindi and English as well.
I am really opposed to the notion that expression should be stripped of so called high-fi vocabulary. I have heard people say quite often that expression should be kept simple because simple expression achieves the same ends without the added burden of having to learn new words. But what is often overlooked by proponents of such arguments is that verbal communication is a very weak mode of communication, often leaving a big gap in what is being expressed and what is understood from that expression. So called 'heavy' words help the process of tighter communication and I am of the opinion that instead of stripping down one's vocabulary one should encourage higher learning of languages.
I am finding it difficult to explain exactly what I mean, (hence once again reinforcing the belief that verbal communication is a weak mode of communication) , so I would leave this point at that and let you experience if you can what my basic point is.

Parting Shot :
The bai had the last laugh when this happened:
Bai To Me: Vartaman Patra ....Te kay asta?...Paper sanga ki....