... purposes of a language. It abounds in terms relating to domestic and agricultural life ; but is poor as soon as another province of thought requires to be occupied. The book style, which is also becoming current in conversation, is a language seeking... A Bengálí Grammar - Page 121de William Yates - 1849 - 151 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| William Yates, John Wenger - 1885 - 152 pages
...style, which is also used by public speakers, seeks to occupy the golden medium between the colloquial and the pedantic ; by preferring to all other words those Sanscrit elements which the colloquial language has retained, or altered only slightly, and by avoiding all compound words, the... | |
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