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[Blog] Language and the Politics of Chauvinism

A friend shared an Instagram reel in a WhatsApp group about the impossibility of having a one word English translation of the Tamil word Ethanavathu (எத்தனாவது), and how it can only be achieved through convoluted and awkward translations such as "Which number in the sequence...?" which sparked a very interesting debate.

But this is not something new. I have often come across similar debat

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	Crossed & Knotted by Sutapa Basu (Goodreads Author) (Editor & Author), Ayan Pal (Goodreads Author), Sanchita Sen Das 4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kaafiyana by Madhumita Ghosh (Editor), Aseem Abbasee (Editor), Vikas Pratap Singh (Goodreads Author), Dinesh Gupta (Goodreads Author), Debarshi Mitra, Bhuvaneshwari Shankar (Goodreads Author), Tikuli (Goodreads Author), Aashisha Chakraborty (Goodreads Author), more… Jeetesh Vaishya …less 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When They Spoke by Arpita Banerjee (Editor), Sanghamitra Bose (Goodreads Author), Ayan Pal (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Readomania Book of Romance by Aashisha Chakraborty (Goodreads Author), Anirban Nanda (Goodreads Author), Anupama Jain 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Story Short... by Ayan Pal (Goodreads Author), Neerja Singh, Karthik Sreeram Kannan (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Readomania Book of Indian Mythology by Aashisha Chakraborty (Goodreads Author), Avanti Sopory, Bhuvaneshwari Shankar (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The earthen Bowl 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silhouette I & II and Other Fiction by Bhuvaneshwari Shankar (Goodreads Author), Michele Baron, Koshy A.V. (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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