mskmoorthy
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Pedantic Post
In 2009, I mailed a few friends and a Sanskrit news group stating this question:
From: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/monday-puzzle-happy-birthday-america/
For word-puzzle lovers, take a look at these questions with “echo
answers.”
Q: What is the best time to give the birthday girl the present?
A: The present!
Q: What’s that on the road ahead?
A: A head!
The answer echoes the last few words of the question but uses them in
a different sense. There are some English poems that use this as a
literary device, and I am sure that it is used in other languages too.
For instance, in Sanskrit, there are poems of questions and answers in
which the entire question is also the answer - the words take on
entirely different meanings, merely by a change in inflection. (It’s
no coincidence that Sanskrit is the language of mysticism.)
I got the following reply from Shri Hari Narayan
(I posted his response here https://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=9475&p=148775#post148775 )
My distant relative (from Kerala) sent this reponse (with both Sanskrit and Malyalam)
remember the first line now and it goes as.
The king states quizzically to the minister - कातिलोला?
And the minister replies (in Malayalam) - nallataali
The king's statement could be interpreted as the stud in the ear or as का अतिलोला, which means who is more beatufil. The minister's reply could be interepreted as 'good plate' or nallathu aali, which means the daasi is better.
Recently I saw some scholarly posts by Shri Sangomji in 2011 under the thread Some Superb Sanskrit Slokas https://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=5898
In particular
https://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=5898&p=76504#post76504 also gives another example where the question and answer is the same.
Reading Shri Sangomji's posts, made me aware of a Sankrit Malyali Poet Tola Kavi - Tola Kavi's biography may be found here https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...c1ODg3MDQ2NjUzNDEBU0NPOXNOUzZBd0FKATAuMQEBdjI
On a humorous note I end this post with two latin phrase: 1) "Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur" "Whatever is said in Latin appears profound!" and 2) Latin/English Pun "Semper ubi sub ubi" ( [FONT="]Always wear [/FONT]underwear[FONT="].)[/FONT]
In 2009, I mailed a few friends and a Sanskrit news group stating this question:
From: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/monday-puzzle-happy-birthday-america/
For word-puzzle lovers, take a look at these questions with “echo
answers.”
Q: What is the best time to give the birthday girl the present?
A: The present!
Q: What’s that on the road ahead?
A: A head!
The answer echoes the last few words of the question but uses them in
a different sense. There are some English poems that use this as a
literary device, and I am sure that it is used in other languages too.
For instance, in Sanskrit, there are poems of questions and answers in
which the entire question is also the answer - the words take on
entirely different meanings, merely by a change in inflection. (It’s
no coincidence that Sanskrit is the language of mysticism.)
I got the following reply from Shri Hari Narayan
(I posted his response here https://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=9475&p=148775#post148775 )
My distant relative (from Kerala) sent this reponse (with both Sanskrit and Malyalam)
remember the first line now and it goes as.
The king states quizzically to the minister - कातिलोला?
And the minister replies (in Malayalam) - nallataali
The king's statement could be interpreted as the stud in the ear or as का अतिलोला, which means who is more beatufil. The minister's reply could be interepreted as 'good plate' or nallathu aali, which means the daasi is better.
Recently I saw some scholarly posts by Shri Sangomji in 2011 under the thread Some Superb Sanskrit Slokas https://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=5898
In particular
https://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=5898&p=76504#post76504 also gives another example where the question and answer is the same.
Reading Shri Sangomji's posts, made me aware of a Sankrit Malyali Poet Tola Kavi - Tola Kavi's biography may be found here https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...c1ODg3MDQ2NjUzNDEBU0NPOXNOUzZBd0FKATAuMQEBdjI
On a humorous note I end this post with two latin phrase: 1) "Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur" "Whatever is said in Latin appears profound!" and 2) Latin/English Pun "Semper ubi sub ubi" ( [FONT="]Always wear [/FONT]underwear[FONT="].)[/FONT]