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Interested in languages and wildlife, Computational Linguist (WIP) working on Tamil, Malayalam & Kannada. https://www.linkedin.com/in/oligoglot/
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Heard my monolingual Aachi say "எல்லாம் நார்மலமா இருக்குன்னு சொல்லிட்டாங்க பாப்பா" (with regard to her glucose test). I wonder if she added the அம் (-am) suffix to the English word "normal" by analogy with Tamil abstract nouns or is that some phonological adaptation? #CodeMixing

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இனிய குடியரசுநாள் வாழ்த்து! Happy Republic Day of India! Today I learned that our national animal which we see in bright orange appears green to its prey, hence it's camouflaged. PC: The Brain Maze www.iflscience.com/we-now-know-...

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இனிய பொங்கல் வாழ்த்து! Happy Pongal! ポンガルおめでとう。Wrote this little stub on Pongal in Japanese Wikipedia taking loads of help from the wife and Google. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%...

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Someone just reminded me of பற்றும் which would be பத்தும் in speech. It’s still a nice coincidence!

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I've always wondered whether #Tamil பத்தும் was a variant of Std. Tamil போதும் (enough, sufficient). Today a colleague used #Japanese 十分 (jūbun) for "enough". It's literally "ten parts">"whole/perfect">"enough"! Is Tamil பத்தும் "all of ten" பத்து+உம்? 🤯 #semanticparallel

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment