 ... style, which should be most carefully avoided, viz. the vulgar and the pedantic. The vulgar style betrays itself by the use of the inferior verb and pronoun in the first and second persons. The pedantic style may be known by its being imperfectly...  A Bengálí Grammar - Page 120de William Yates - 1849 - 151 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Yates, John Wenger - 1885 - 152 pages
...may be expressed ; thus, \S° five-sixteenths, it-/° fifteen-sixteenths, &c. (6.) ON BENGALI STYLE. We may point out two kinds of style, which should...such compounds as consist of words not in common use. Another kind of style may be called impure, because it borrows too largely from the Hindi and Hindustani,... | |
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