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] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> <https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology> > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > <https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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