Where can i find that language at?

There are online dictionaries :D

oooh, would like to fine one, got a link?

English is the most modifiable language in the world.

Sanskrit is confusing as hell. c.c; Also, I hate spirituality. :P

English is crazy complicated and confusing. That's pretty much established by all non-native english speakers, like yours truly ;)

I'm sure you must've seen your share of people speaking your native language badly. :P

Apparently the way English is structured is actually reverse from every other language? Or so I've heard.

It really is. I have 4 languages under my belt and the other 3 are structured in a similar fashion to eachother, but english is the odd one out.

...structured?

Hell, I'm french and I find english easy as hell... more than french anyway.

french is a bad example because it's just retarded :3

heeeeeeeeeeeey, that's not nice >=(

I took it for 5 years in quebec, it has permanently soured my view on the language :P

portugese is much worse in my opinion...

Do not insult Portugese! it is a smooth, romantic and flowing language!

You just stole it from Spanish ¬_¬

All of the above are just mutant step-children of Latin, so hush

Exactly! ... except for the mutant step- part. >.> they're legitimate children of the great language of the all encompasing Romans.

Any language with grammatical gender is retarded and badly in need of an overhaul. It complicates things where complication is completely unnecessary.

I concur.

I disaggree. French is fun even though its complicated as hell. I'm tryin to learn Japanese right now

Sounds like it would be very hard to write a technical manual in Sanskrit without resorting to an almost incomprehensible level of metaphor.

"is it the 'karmic flow' that needs to me adjusted to stop the picture rolling?"

"I'm not sure, perhaps it's the 'living water'?"

"No no, that's completely wrong. First, it's not 'living water,' it's 'water of life,' and the 'water of life' comes out of the wall to power the system."

Actually it's really neat in that it does have engineering principles in it too, but instead of having to rely on inventing and learning new words they modify using suffixes and prefixes existing words or use a root word to create a variation on its meaning. It's surprisingly intuitive.

Wait, isn't that how Newspeak works??

newspeak uses modifier words to limit the development of language and sharing of ideas. Prefix and suffix use is common in laguages like japanese.

Naw, they'd just use lots of pictures, without words.

*Jumping peppers!* It is so *squishy* to *smell* you!

Ah, I love me some Sanskrit. I'd like to have some tattoos written with it.

sounds cool

I like the writing system for it; it's another one of those I thought was really intriguing. :0

I wonder if it's another toroid based writing system like aramaic.

Not sure; I haven't looked into those as much as I'd like yet. :C

I'm pretty sure its not toroid based.

OOooooh another language I wouldn't mind getting upon my arrival at DLIFLC :)

One of my favorites is Cyrillic. It looks so, foreign and intimidating.

You've always got such fascinating journal entries XD

I've never had the privilege to check out Sanskrit myself, though I have a few friends who are Linguistics majors :P Maybe I should ask them about it sometime :)

English seems too coarse and nondescript. We are limited in our vowel sounds compared to other languages. And we're also quite a lazy bunch, at least here in America. I've been wondering for a while just how much influence a society's language can have on the rest of its attributes.

Im learning Nepali right now which is an early derivative of Sanskrit, all of the phrasing and grammer is the pretty much the same. I had to learn the Devanagri script over a couple weeks. Since Im living in Nepal right now I've had to take intense language classes everyday to learn the language. The grammer is pretty different from what you'd be used to because almost everything is reversed and it takes a long time to get used to. The thing you said about spirituality is pretty much true though, even the greeting which is Namaste means "The god in me salutes the god in you".

Oh! and P.S.

Mero bicharma tapaaiko edkam raamro chitrakar chha ^^

Or even better ^^

मेरो बिचहारमा तपािको एकदाम रामरो चितरकर छ।

p.s. sorry for flooding your journal with posts ^^;

You'd like my Eastern Religion teacher...he's FLUENT in Sanskrit.

It is perhaps a little tiny bit unfair to compare an ancient language like Sanskrit with the increasingly coarse use of English in modern society. =-P

And yet...Sanskrit died out. Apparently there's alot to be said for not focusing on the self while letting your neighbors focus on military expansion.

Gupta Empire, 3.5 million km² (2,174,799 square miles) at its peak, ruled by Sanskrit speakers; 33rd largest empire of all time, just slightly smaller than the German Empire and Nazi Germany, and a heck of a lot less genocidal than the latter.

The Maurya Empire, around 5 million km² (somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,106,855 square miles) at its peak under Asoka, a Sanskrit speaker who embraced Buddhism following his greatest conquest and undertook a massive series of reforms that leads him to be regarded by many modern Indians as an ideal ruler, akin to the way westerners regard King Arthur (except that Asoka is a historically documented real person, rather than an amalgam of mythological and historic figures). The Maurya empire ranks just below the Tang and Roman empires for sheer breadth, and unlike the Roman empire, slavery and violent sports were banned during its peak period.

Yes, and where are they now? That was my point.

Where's the Roman Empire? Latin is only spoken in schools and ecclesiastic environments. Where's the second largest empire of all time, the Mongol Empire- Nobody speaks Chagatai anymore. You commented on letting neighbors focus on military expansion, but both of those cultures also had widespread languages that are now either extinct or rarely spoken outside of scholarly settings, and all the empires mentioned (including the Sanskrit-speaking ones) achieved what they did through military expansion.

Modern Hebrew uses words derived from root words with more spiritual or traditional meanings. The word for electricity originally described the radiance of angels.

There are theories in the social sciences that the language a person speaks influences the way they think or approach the world; that a very technical language may lead towards a greater tendency towards precision or analysis, for example. It's a bit more complicated than that, but I don't want to go into a decade's worth of debates in a comment on FA XD

so the calligraphy looks nice.
but Chinese ideographs do just the same in capturing abstract ideas.

I have always loved languages. Unfortunatly, I never had much luck with language classes as others in the group were less keen to learn and so they decided to be disruptive.

O.o sounds vary in depth and complicated..
the english language is rather dull if you ask me.. =/

cooooooool