Personal Identity Note
ವಿಶ್ವಾಸ್ ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸನ್ 𑀯𑀺𑀰𑁆𑀯𑀸𑀲𑁆 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻𑀦𑀺𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀦𑁆 Viśvās Śrīnivāsan̠ 宝物家 信念 The personal name rendered in four scripts: Kannada (viśvāś śrīnivāsan), Brahmi (𑀯𑀺𑀰𑁆𑀯𑀸𑀲𑁆 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻𑀦𑀺𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀦𑁆), IAST romanization (Viśvās Śrīnivāsan̠), and Japanese kanji (宝物家 信念 = Treasure-house + Faith/Conviction). A multilingual identity expression.
Family names in Kannada script: AKSHARA ಅಕ್ಷರ SMRITI ಸ್ಮೃತಿ VISHWAS ವಿಶ್ವಾಸ್ AMMA ಅಮ್ಮ
Why It’s So Hard to Pronounce KAMALA
Why Kamala Harris’s Pronunciation of Her Own Name Isn’t So Straightforward (YouTube) A linguistic analysis of the name Kamala — a Sanskrit word (kamala = lotus) with a specific Sanskrit stress pattern — and why English speakers consistently mispronounce it, given that English stress rules and Sanskrit/Tamil stress rules diverge significantly. The video explains the linguistics of cross-language name pronunciation and the politics of correcting mispronunciation. https://youtu.be/NihLE-wh0xc
Miscellaneous Linguistics
MIT Study: Polyglots’ Brains Process Native Language (news.mit.edu) An MIT neurolinguistics study on how polyglots’ brains process their native language compared to later-acquired languages — finding that highly proficient multilingual speakers show increasingly native-like neural activation patterns in the languages learned later, with implications for the “critical period” hypothesis and the neuroplasticity of language representation. https://news.mit.edu/
Large Linguistic Models Paper — Analyzing Theoretical Linguistic Abilities of LLMs (arXiv 2305.00948) A paper systematically evaluating large language models against formal linguistic theories (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) — asking whether models achieving high benchmark scores have genuinely internalized linguistic knowledge or are sophisticated pattern matchers. Directly relevant to assessing LLM capability for Kannada NLP applications. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00948
Gopalakrishnan Ramamurthy: Etymology of Anna, Akka, Thambi, Thangai in Tamil (Quora) A Quora answer tracing the Dravidian etymologies of Tamil kinship terms — aṇṇa (elder brother), akka (elder sister), tambi (younger brother), taṅkai (younger sister) — and how they correspond to Kannada anna, akka, tammu, tangi. The cognates demonstrate the unity of Dravidian kinship vocabulary across language boundaries. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-etymology-or-root-word-of-Anna-Akka-Thambi-and-Thangai-in-Tamil/answer/Gopalakrishnan-Ramamurthy-3
Graph Theory Origins in Sanskrit Poetry and Arabic — YouTube A YouTube video tracing graph theory concepts back to Sanskrit prosody (Pingala’s Chandashashtra and the enumeration of metrical patterns, equivalent to binary trees and Fibonacci sequences) and Arabic combinatorics — predating Euler’s Königsberg bridges by centuries. Directly relevant to the claim that formal combinatorial thinking originated in Indian grammatical and mathematical traditions. https://youtu.be/DjZB9HvddQk