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The Linguists - Languages are Dying!

 
thelinguists Src: Screen Capture from thelinguists.com Did you know that half the languages in the world are dying? Two linguists have set about documenting the same in film, for the Sundance film festival. Being a linguist myself (MA in Applied Linguistics,
 

Makara Sankranti -08

 
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UPDATE: 17 Jan 2008 Thank you for coming here. If you want to use the above card, please right click and slect “save as” or “save target as” to do so. All I ask in return is a comment from you, so that even I get some happiness. Its only fair don’t you think?

Childhood consisted of celebrating Sankranti with much awaited pomp and fervour. It all began with ...
 

Writers Challenge

 

I'm bored and I need some inspiration so I'm throwing out a challenge. I want to see 200 words or less,  on the best moment of your day. Tell it any way you want, first person, third person, from the point of view of a tree, I don't care. Just show me the best moment of your day.

This was the challenge thrown to our writers group, by Sandra Brennan.  here is my response, which I dont

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MITI’S LITTLE WORLD

 
A special thanks to my new friend Agantuk, who is a linguist from India, and I met online. We were exchanging poems that we both like, and then he asked me whether I write poems myself. It has been a very long time, since I wrote poems of any kind. So I actually sat in one place, came out with this poem and sent it to him. He liked it. So now having gained some confidence, I am publishing the ...