Thanks for the YouTube reference to Noam Chomsky! lovely!
“Can submarines swim?” — a practical challenge to the tech-impaired modern 
yungins! 

I’d like to share another statement of Chomsky.
“Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously” is Chomsky’s best introduction to 
Phrase Structure grammar. 

I pray to God to bless him with health and longevity. 

Best,
rajam 



> On Jan 28, 2025, at 3:23 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps this youtube video by Noam Chomsky is relevant.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgyibPu6n9k&t=175s 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgyibPu6n9k&t=175s>
> I love it when he asks "Can submarines swim" .
> Harry Spier
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM John Taber via INDOLOGY 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Thanks for this. But I just asked it to translate a sentence from 
> Abhinavagupta's Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikāvimarśinī into English, a rather long 
> and convoluted one (they're all long and convoluted), and it did not do 
> nearly as well. It sort of got lost in the middle of the sentence.
> 
> Best,
> John Taber
> 
>> On 27 Jan 2025, at 7:09 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>   [EXTERNAL]
>> 
>> I asked the newly released Chinese AI Deepseek to render my Sanskrit verse 
>> into Hindi. Here is the result.
>> 
>> हरे प्रचुरगोपिकापरिवृतोऽपि रासात्यये
>> न विस्मरसि कुब्जिकां सदय दूरत: संस्थिताम् ।
>> तथैव भवतोऽखिलं जगति भक्तवृन्दं भवत्-
>> पदाम्बुजरतं प्रतीक्षत इहागतिं ते हरे ।।
>> 
>> Here is the Sanskrit verse translated into Hindi,
>> 
>> हे हरि!
>> 
>> रासलीला के अंत में,
>> 
>> असंख्य गोपिकाओं से घिरे होने पर भी,
>> 
>> तुम दूर खड़ी कुब्जिका को दयापूर्वक नहीं भूलते।
>> ठीक उसी प्रकार, हे प्रभु, इस संसार में,
>> तुम्हारे भक्तों का समूह,
>> तुम्हारे चरणकमलों के प्रति समर्पित,
>> तुम्हारे आगमन की प्रतीक्षा करता है।
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The translation is surprisingly good. 
>> 
>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
>> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
>> 
>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
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