Richard,

It appears that Texas has many talented people, including George W. who has a 
hidden talent for painting dogs.  As far as learning languages are concerned, 
are you studying these languages on your own or do you have teachers to help 
you?

JR

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote:
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> > > > Habemus Papam!
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> > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ut aliquip ex ea commodo 
> > > consequat... 
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> John jr_esq:
> > We're impressed with your Latin.  But what does it say?
> >
> Thanks, John - Latin, like Sanskrit, is a dead language. 
> 
> Currently I am learning not only Latin, but Spanish, French,
> Japanese, Sanskrit, Hindi, Tibetan, and Urdu.
> 
> FYI:
> 
> In fact, Sanskrit has never been the spoken language of
> any people, anywhere.
> 
> There are no bija mantras mentioned in Rig Veda, and no
> bija mantras are found in any Vedic Literature.
> 
> There is a lot of information about Sanskrit coming out 
> of Texas lately, some of it is true and some of it is 
> just plain misleading.
> 
> However, in reality, there are not that many ordinary 
> folks around here who can read Sanskrit or understand it, 
> much less recite the nicknames of all the devas in a 
> foreign tongue!
> 
> We depend on hearsay for most of our information, usually
> overhearing phrases at camp-meets. A few bhogis like to
> read newsgroups on the Internet and post by day, but many
> of us adepts do not even like to use overseas languages 
> for communication among ourselves, preferring instead our 
> own native Tex-Mex dialect, called Lingo, which is ideally
> suited to household life.
> 
> However, a lot of folks around here are bi-lingual to a
> certain degree. In fact, San Antonio has been described 
> as one of the most diverse ethnic cities in the U.S. I 
> guess that is why they call that amusement park 'Six Flags 
> Over Texas'. LoL!
> 
> Anyway, we local yokels aproppriate our phrases from Yaqui,
> Spanish, English, German, and French words. In addition,
> we make use of a lot of place names that we ripped off
> from the native indigenous population, such as Pontiac,
>  Taos, and Milwaukee.
> 
> This notwithstanding, there has been an increased interest
> in Oriental vernaculars, such as Hindi and Tibetan, due to
> an influx of tourists, immigrants, and International
> students.
> 
> The resident Swami here is said to be able to speak five
>  languages, including  fluent English and Urdu. The Swami,
> who recently gave a speech in Hindi, has an interesting
> habit of omitting certain dipthongs when using Sanskrit
> words, e.g. Yog for Yoga, etc.
> 
> In addition, there has been an increased interest in
> learning Sanskrit on this very newsgroup. One informant,
> sometimes posting under the handle 'Chief Shitting Bull',
> claims to have a special apprenticeship with a certain
> 'Mullquist', who is reputed to be somewhat of a linguist
> somewhere up in Nokialand.
> 
> Apparently, the language called Sanskrit was not spoken
> by the Vedic population of ancient India, being a dead
> language akin to Latin, and used solely for oral liturgical
> purposes by priests during the Homa ceremony.
> 
> Written Sanskrit was invented later by Panini, who lived
> long after the Vedas were first recited by the ancient
> rishis and sages. It is a fact, that the first known
> written vernacular in India is from the pillar of King
> Ashoka at Sarnath, and it is not written in Sanskrit.
>


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