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“We have an oral tradition,” he says. “Therefore, much was put into poetry. Even books of astronomy and medicine. Poetry can be learned swiftly.” English, he observes, has a written tradition, and so “it is informative in nature. Its knowledge is encyclopedic.”
― Katherine Russell Rich, Dreaming In Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language – An Eye-Opening Memoir on Linguistics, Brain Science, and Self-Discovery in India