Marriage and feminism

[marie_pc]

A female family member came to the house for a few days to see her grandmother (who lives here) and also go to an “appointment.” Being a little out of the loop, I asked if it was a job interview. It was actually a marriage interview, which means she, her family, a boy, and his family all got together and discussed the details of a marriage for

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[superstinger]

Sorry for the unrelated question, and I get that you might not get a ton of opportunities to answer so if its inconvenient dont worry about it, but I'm curious if bangla has the same sounds as hindi? Like lots of consonants having an aspirated and non-aspirated version that have different characters and that native speakers can easily distinguish between? Once a guy spent like 40 minutes trying to help me hear the difference between ka and kha and it didn't work. So since I know you've been learning bangla I'm wondering if that sound thing is part of the language and if and how you've learned to hear and pronounce them different?

Bangla Language

[marie_pc]

I have been asked about the Bangla language and if it’s anything like Hindi in that it has aspirated and non-aspirated sounds. Both languages are from Sanskrit and there are a lot of similarities. I think they are comparable to romance languages: if you know one, you can kind of make out the gist of what’s going on in another. Both have alphabets that include consonants that are non-aspirated (Ko) and aspirated (Kho). It’s hard for me sometimes to tell the difference between aspirated and non-aspirated, especially when it comes to the four different d’s (D, Dh, d, dh) and four different t’s (T, Th, t, th). Those are all about tongue placement

Bangla Language Continued

[marie_pc]

In the alphabet, the consonants then come next with a wide o or “aw” sound following the sound. That’s just the way the alphabet is pronounced, and that “o” sound is henceforth implied in written words if there isn’t another vowel following it. So, like the word “motor” would have written “mtr,” because the wide o sounds are implied (but there is the Minnesota “o” sound that is written the “e” and “a” symbols on either side of the consonant, see 3 paragraphs above). The first consonant in the alphabet is

[onyxdemetrius]

one of your most interesting posts so far, at least for politics-and-gender/other-issues-obsessed me.

thanks, marie!