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DrWatson · 70-79, M
That is beautiful. What language is that?
bijouxbroussard · F
@DrWatson I used to know…Sanskrit, perhaps ? But I’m not sure now.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@bijouxbroussard Maybe Hindi. Sanskrit is a written language only.
In GB Shaw's play [i]Pygmallion[/i], when Henry Higgins meets Colonel Pickering, he has a line, "Colonel Pickering? The author of 'Spoken Sanskrit?' " (I don't remember whether this line made it into the musical adaptation, [i]My Fair Lady[/i].) It was an "in" joke, which would have gone over the head of many members of the audience.
In GB Shaw's play [i]Pygmallion[/i], when Henry Higgins meets Colonel Pickering, he has a line, "Colonel Pickering? The author of 'Spoken Sanskrit?' " (I don't remember whether this line made it into the musical adaptation, [i]My Fair Lady[/i].) It was an "in" joke, which would have gone over the head of many members of the audience.
bijouxbroussard · F
@DrWatson Mine, too, apparently. 😞
DrWatson · 70-79, M