The qualities of Sanskrit will become the qualities of your child
January 21, 2014 8:24 PM   Subscribe

Why does my child do Sanskrit? You may have noticed your son or daughter singing Sanskrit grammar songs in the back of the car just for the fun of it on the way home from school...

We struggle with the meaning of Shakespeare’s English or that of the King James Bible. Go back a bit further and we don’t have a clue about the English from the time of Chaucer’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ from around 700 AD. We cannot even call this English anymore and now rightly call it Anglo-Saxon.
posted by KokuRyu (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: If this is just point-and-laugh at one overenthusiastic dude, that is not so great. If there's a larger trend or something else going on here, maybe a do-over with more context? -- LobsterMitten



 
When I was in college I majored Latin & Greek, and I pushed SO hard for one of the professors in my program to offer Sanskrit but he didn't think there'd be enough interest. I talked it up enough that finally I prevailed on him to offer it -- the year after I graduated.

Great article. You've reminded me I need to dust off the old sanskrit grammar that I still have somewhere. Thanks for that.
posted by gauche at 8:32 PM on January 21, 2014


Is there some more context for this?
Your tags say "parody" - what is this a parody of?
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:33 PM on January 21, 2014


This has to be a parody:

Chaucer’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ from around 700 AD
posted by KokuRyu at 8:34 PM on January 21, 2014


This looks like you posted this for a "point and laugh". Not the best of the web.
posted by benito.strauss at 8:35 PM on January 21, 2014


Sanskrit-jingoism is a recurring topic over at /r/badlinguistics. It would be an interesting idea to chart the phenomenon on a broader scale than this.
posted by Sticherbeast at 8:37 PM on January 21, 2014


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