Here is some knowledge, I picked up from the discussions in yahoogroup, on what is the word in Hindi/Sanskrit for DESIGN-
"It is neither surprising nor sad that we are not ableto get an exact equivalence to 'design', an English word that during last eighty years has gathered layers after layers after layers of meanings, nuances and interpretations. The French who are at least ten times as fiercely proud of their language as we are ofSanskrit (or Hindi or Bangla, or Tamil or any of thefourteen Indian languages) have recenly settled downfor DESIGN with no change of spelling. Germany had alredy done the same while Russians (quite cleverly, Ithought) desided to add an entirely new word to theirlanguage, spelled DIZAIN"- H. Kumar Vyas
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Pick of the day- Defining Design in Indian language
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"Russians (quite cleverly, Ithought) desided to add an entirely new word to theirlanguage, spelled DIZAIN"
Cyrillic script in which Russian is phonetic in nature. In Cyrillic there is a letter corresponding to "g" (same as greek "gamma"), however the concept of a silent "g" doesn't exist (probably). Letter "e" sounds more like "ye". So, the spelling had to be what it is, for the word to sound like what it ought to. Begging to disagree with Mr. Vyas, there is nothing particularly clever about this in my opinion.
I tend to agree with you Turkish.
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