On time evolution of Nepali Language

I was reading an excellent piece of Basanta jee's writing on Nepali Language.
http://www.basantagautam.com/2009/01/blog-post_23.html

However,
One also can not deny the time evolution of language. The out-cry was there when we decided on 36 consonants in Nepali Varnamala. It is also quite interesting that different people around the world have different accents and hence different number of vowels. I believe that spoken form always has been guiding the written form of language. This can lead us to chicken-egg problem. Think of way people started speaking for communication and hence realizing the need for written form. Grammar comes later. It is refinements of what we want to convey consistently. If many people find it convenient using one way and find that to be popular, it is the time which decides the form of language. The new usage may be in-consistent with the prevalent one. The consistency in error evolves as new rule.
It keeps evolving. People 250 years ago certainly would have been un-happy to see the present form of Nepali language. Shall we go back to please them?

I am sorry, I am not being dis-respectful to any language. I am one of the people who is writing in other language to convey my two cents. The constraints for me to write in Nepali is, however, not regrettable.

Let me state one more example: We have had people aboard in India/Bhutan who has been speaking Nepali Language for eternal time. After Bhutanese govt. decided to impose the local language, they rebelled and hence were displaced. Now, some of the refugees are in USA or elsewhere.  I am curious (about the Nepali speaking refugees) to those who came to USA or other English speaking country. Are they going to be able to preserve the language for another few generations (as they were able to do so for last few hundred years)? Only time will tell. (Note the life style in reference to space and time here and how it may affect the adoption/preservation for next generation.)

It is understandable that people love the native language, and it hurts when people point finger to it. Love for language has to do with personal sentiment.


Many people take that speaking other language as symbol of slavery. In the present context, it is not true. In the present age of information, we all go for information not in what language it is/was written. If we still argue about it, we loose some part of energy on arguments.
I agree with Govinda Jee on usages (comment on Basanta jee's note on Facebook).

No doubt, people should work on prospering their language as it also has to do with "identity".
However, Change is inevitable.

Walk like a human: PETMAN

Boston Dynamics has done it again.
See the walking biped: PETMAN.

About: Robots in Mozilla Firefox

Just Screenshots of what you get when you type about:robots and about:mozilla

Meet the crazy Bird Men

Gliding from mountaintop should be fun... mixed with a close invitation to death.
Follow these crazy adventurers falling off the cliff and gliding. People call them Bird Men.

// Mistake on "http://"

It gives me sheer excitement to think of being able to make a mistake which would trouble generations to come... :P
The creator of the WWW has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary" [1].
I remember being irritated when people start spelling or typing http://www..... dot com or something like that.
Since I have been using Firefox for the long time, ctrl+L, nabinkm+ctrl+inter gives me http://www.nabinkm.com/. I did not enjoy the glory of typing the  whole http and colon and double slash and then w w w dot ... to get http://www.nabinkm.com/. I never have enjoyed it so much.

So, we all are paying the mistake of //. However, the mistake seems tiny if you compare the impact of such wide possibilities www has opened up since then.



Reference:
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8306631.stm

Google, Bing and Yahoo Gestures

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No! Nope! Nada! Saturday Night Live

The following is a clip from Saturday Night Live, embeded from Hulu.
This pitches strong comedy onto the presidency of Obama. The main topic is: What did Obama do in 8 months?



Last year Saturday Night Live was famous for showing Sarah Palin Mimic by Tina Fey. I had one post here.

I think it would be less painful for the politically motivated people to watch the comedy and take it as way of having fun.

Get More Google Chrome Themes

Google Chome has new themes online!
Go ahead and try some...
https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html

I noticed it from the bottom curve of the chrome.
I think this is one of the nice way to get attention to new feature.


I have to admit that even though I loved Firefox the most, I love the speed that Chrome brings to to browsing. It might be the 20 ad-ons I have been using on FF and none in Chrome.
Promoting the third should not hurt much.
:)