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    Quote of the Day

    Posted by Chicago Boyz Archive on April 16th, 2009 (All posts by )

    Distance from English, from the European languages of reason, is always a bad thing for the developing world.

    Aakar Patel, “Try and say this in Hindi—bet you can’t”.

    RTWT.

    Via The Middle Stage.

     

    This entry was posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pm and is filed under Anglosphere, India, Quotations. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    3 Responses to “Quote of the Day”

    1. zenpundit Says:
      April 16th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

      Japanese might be the exception here. Their modernization ( Meiji Restoration -Taisho eras) easily outstripped that of the Italians, Spainards, Portuguese, Russians and the Eastern Europeans. In 40 years they jumped from the Middle Ages to defeating a great power with a modern Navy and Army.

      Other than that, you might have found a good rule of thumb.

    2. Lexington Green Says:
      April 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

      Agreed, Japan is a unique case. Never colonized, only conquered once, in 1945.

    3. SporkLift Driver Says:
      April 21st, 2009 at 5:47 pm

      I’ve started learning Japanese recently and I’m quite impressed with both the vocabulary and the grammar. It seems that you can say anything in Japanese.

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