Ramayana - Official Introduction Teaser - Ranbir Kapoor Sai Pallavi - Page 35

Originally posted by: NathuPaapi

Okay I'm not getting into this argument about who's Sanskrit is better or who presereved it better....

Just google why he was named meghnad/ meghnaad or मेघनाद (roar of clouds) instead of meghnath (lord of clouds).

Aa (meghnaad) would have been the correct form of writing the word मेघनाद in English but it's very common to see people write a single a instead of double aa in many english words when transliterating hindi to english.

You caught me before I edited my post..I hesitated for a fleeting second before I posted it and then immediately edited it...You are too fast!

@Bold: How do you expect an English guy , who has no idea about the Epic and its characters, to get the right phonetics in that case?

Originally posted by: catchm-ifucan

You caught me before I edited my post..I hesitated for a fleeting second before I posted it and then immediately edited it...You are too fast!

@.How do you expect an English guy , who has no idea about the Epic and its characters, to get the right phonetics in that case?

Don't stress too much. English is anyways a funny language. There's so much confusion with pronounciation regarding certain letters or silent letters etc. Ex. C in catch is pronounced diffrent than C in certain.

Originally posted by: catchm-ifucan

You caught me before I edited my post..I hesitated for a fleeting second before I posted it and then immediately edited it...You are too fast!

@Bold: How do you expect an English guy , who has no idea about the Epic and its characters, to get the right phonetics in that case?

@ bold - Catch me if u can i caught u

Originally posted by: NathuPaapi

@ bold - Catch me if u can i caught u

You are not supposed to, though...

Because you gave me a lecture on a point that I supposedly didnt make....:(

Anyway, I agree about not stressing on the minors when we have more important things to brace against, like how the English audience will perceive things like 'Agni Pareeksha' which to date even a lot of Indians are not able to understand the significance of....