The Indian Constitution lists Hindi as the official language of the Union, but allows English to continue in use by the government, English being a legacy from British colonial rule. Today India has a growing population of 1.4 billion (it recently surpassed China in this) and of this billion...
”Resplendent” name change:The small island nation of Ceylon left the British Commonwealth and became a republic in 1972…at the same time the government affected a name change to “Sri Lanka“, which combines the honorificSrimeaning “resplendent” and the island’s original nameLankawhich simpl...
One of the most famous constructed languages isEsperanto. In 1887, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist named L.L. Zamenhof wanted to promote peace and cultural unity by giving people an easy-to-learn, universal language to speak. This language, calledEsperanto(meaning “one who hopes”), is largely...
Base Aérea Yanacagua's description states, "This Air Force base, protected byProspero Torretasautomated defenses, coordinates the Black Hand Airforce in Solís and around the globe." It is not known what other countries the Black Hand are deployed to, but if this base really does coordinate ...
It also improves on existing accounts of Chinese bare conditionals in being able to capture the details of the form and meaning of this construction. Chinese bare conditionals are structurally related to ruguo 'if'-conditionals and Hindi left-adjoined correlatives and their meaning is similar to,...
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese sometimes, German, Czech, Polish, Russian, Arabic, as well as in Tagalog and Hindi. Many different languages use the ‘rolled r’ sound. However, not all of them pronounce this sound the same way. It can depend on the language, and the word and meaning as ...
Bad, bad, very bad! Just Translate = literary translate word for word!? Makes no sense when you read translation. It is almost impossible to correct translation because the translated sentence doesn't have any meaning. Avoid! anonymous-wombat-32 ...
a汉语中和狗有关的习语大多带有贬义色彩 Chinese neutral dog related custom language mostly has the derogatory meaning color[translate] aCan you go to the concert with us this evening? — 您可以今晚去音乐会与我们? —[translate] aJust as we sweep our rooms, so we should sweep back ward ideas...
Those two days had been spent monitoring markets, stretching time with friends and family, building and meeting expectations, thinking of Thanksgiving, finding meaning in routine – but mostly in waiting for good news. Or wishing for no bad news. Those two days had been spent in hopeful ...