They are using English transliteration.It has probably eight or ten alternate spellings. They seem very lax about spelling in India (probably because there are so many languages).
There are many languages, though they are similar. My husband essentially spoke Punjabi. There is no written Punjabi so he wrote Urdu which uses Arabic alphabet or characters. He could understand Hindhi and Sindhi. He could speak some German and write it and his spoken English was not bad. His English handwriting was very good. But he usually wrote Urdu. He could read Arabic but not speak it. He could understand Farsi. He could understand most regional languages of Pakistan or India.
Muslims are so stupid.
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Passion is one thing. Idiocy is another. Kind of like someone who cannot handle LSD.
But I would rather not. I think the LSD factor has been overdone here, frankly.I'm sure we could go off on a whole other thread there!
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Have you ever watched any Indian movies?
You may want to listen to some of the music. Much of it sucks but there is the sitar.Only for five or ten minutes. All I remember is some extremely stylized flirting, set to music.
His name is most closely associated with the sitar in the west. George Harrison popularized him in the west. I recall the recording with the explanations. I owned it when I was about fifteen, maybe.I've been listening to Shankar, just because it was a name I had heard of. Also, he has a CD where he explains exactly what he is doing, which is very helpful.
The tabla, the tambura, the sitar.As I listen to more Indian music, I find that it is the tabla playing I really like, more than the sitar - although they do work well together.
I do think the tabla is fascinating. More than a drum. More musical than the "western" concept of the drum. You could pretty much have the tabla with a huge voice and be done.
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When you learned to play guitar, did you learn classical guitar first?
Then, why do you think of the sitar as strictly a classical instrument? It is used in Indo/Pak folk and rock more than it is used classically.No, but I didn't think of the guitar as a classical instrument. I thought of it as a folk or rock instrument. I was very ignorant of classical music when I started playing guitar.
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God, I hate math. I can like it and do it for about one half second.
There is no sense in it beyond simple computations.A lot of people feel that way about math. I think this is actually a big reason it pays well to do mathematically oriented work. Most people don't like it.
I know that is not entirely true. I know that there would not be computers and the internet and quantum physics without higher math and I admire, to a degree, mathematical talent such as Nash and Godel and others. But it does get to the point that I reckon they could use plainer language. Say it don't spray it.
I will have to finish this tomorrow evening.
Faizi