"I love you" (in Sanskrit, Tamil, etc.)

Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD jlc at CCR.JUSSIEU.FR
Sun Jul 12 19:33:13 UTC 1998


A 19:09 12/07/98 +0000, I wrote :
>>
>Moreover, the arguments based on same-ness [tamil vERRumai]
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>vs. one-ness [tamil oRRumai]
>are frequent in grammatical commentaries, and I wondered
>whether the love reasoning resembled the scholastic
>reasoning in Sanskrit (as it does in Tamil).
>
>
>-- Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
>

I should, of course, have written:

>Moreover, the arguments based on different-ness [tamil vERRumai]
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>vs. one-ness (or same-ness) [tamil oRRumai]
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>are frequent in grammatical commentaries, and I wondered
>whether the love reasoning resembled the scholastic
>reasoning in Sanskrit (as it does in Tamil).





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