Enclosure of the commons at Challakere, Karnataka, !india to set up a massive military industrial complex. Planned facilities include a drone facility (with the explicit purpose of attacking Indian dissidents), nuclear enrichment (for military use) and a synchrotron particle accelerator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPsig5QUnM
arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Mar-2018 04:10:26 EST
arunisaacThe word “prophet” is a very bad translation of an obscure Hebrew word, navi. Nobody knows what it means. But today they’d be called dissident intellectuals. They were giving geopolitical analysis, arguing that the acts of the rulers were going to destroy society. And they condemned the acts of evil kings. They called for justice and mercy to orphans and widows and so on.
I don’t want to say it was all beautiful. Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful. You read Sakharov, who is sometimes appalling. Or Solzhenitsyn. And the nivi’im were treated the way dissident intellectuals always are. They weren’t praised. They weren’t honored. They were imprisoned like Jeremiah. They were driven into the desert. They were hated. Now at the time, there were intellectuals, “prophets,” who were very well treated. They were the flatterers of the court. Centuries later, they were called “false prophets.”
arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Mar-2018 04:07:29 EST
arunisaacToday, I learnt that Tamil is a diglossia. Diglossia is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used by a single language community. In addition to the community's everyday or vernacular language variety (labeled "L" or "low" variety), a second, highly codified variety (labeled "H" or "high") is used in certain situations such as literature, formal education, or other specific settings, but not used for ordinary conversation. In most cases, the H variety has no native speakers. The high variety may be an older stage of the same language (as in medieval Europe, where Latin remained in formal use even as colloquial speech diverged), an unrelated language, or a distinct yet closely related present day dialect.
arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Mar-2018 04:04:51 EST
arunisaacதமிழ் diglossia எனப்படும் இரட்டை வழக்கு மொழி என்பதைத் தெரிந்து கொண்டேன். இரட்டை வழக்குடைய மொழிகளில் மக்கள் தம்மிடையேயான தொடர்புகளுக்கு அன்றாடம் வழமையாகப் பயன்படுத்தும் மொழி வழக்குக்குப் புறம்பாக, உயர் நிலையில் ஒழுங்கமைக்கப்பட்ட இன்னொரு வழக்கும் இருக்கும். இவ்வுயர்நிலை மொழி இலக்கியம், முறைசார் கல்வி, மேடைப்பேச்சு போன்றவற்றில் பயன்படுத்தப்படும். அன்றாட வழக்கு "தாழ்ந்த (L)" வகை எனவும், மற்றது "உயர் (H)" வகை எனவும் குறிப்பிடப்படுவது உண்டு. ஜெர்மன் போன்ற ஐரோப்பிய மொழியிலும் இந்நிலை இருக்கிறதாம்.