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Why I Love [lɪŋgwɪstɪksmeɪʤɚz]

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Word Swapping

There is a rather well-known (courtesy of Slumdog Millionaire) Hindi song called Jai Ho (जय हो). In Hindi, "Jai ho!" means something like "May you have victory!" or even "Hallelujah!"

Unfortunately, this song happened to get stuck in my head today. This was unfortunate not because it's a bad song (I rather like it) but because I spent probably six or seven hours reading, writing, and memorizing Chinese today.

At some point I realized that "jai" and "ho" are both valid sound combinations in Chinese as well as Hindi ("zhai" and "hou"), which gave me the wonderfully procrastinatory (™) idea of finding out what I might be singing, were I singing in Chinese.

Somehow I don't think the dance at the end of Slumdog Millionaire would have been quite as meaningful if Jamal and Latika, finally reunited, had grasped hands and yelled, "Pluck crabs!"

Vitosynthesis

N. [vē-tō-sin(t)-thə-səs]

The gradual process of interweaving dynamic life elements into a single, complex, self-defining existence.

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living