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tomorrow, tomorrow

         

lucy24

10:01 pm on Feb 17, 2023 (gmt 0)

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While slogging through two pages of Quechua (no, I don't know a word of it, thank you for asking) I came across an unexpected “manaña” (like that). It put me in mind of:

A Spaniard and an Irishman are talking about their respective languages. The Spaniard asks if they have anything in Gaelige analogous to the Spanish mañana. The Irishman thinks a bit and says Yes, I suppose we do, but our word doesn’t carry the same sense of urgency.

graeme_p

1:52 am on Feb 18, 2023 (gmt 0)

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Sinhala has a single word for the day after tomorrow.

අනිද්දා pronounced anidda

I nearly got that right without looking it up!

graeme_p

1:55 am on Feb 18, 2023 (gmt 0)

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OK, no unicode here.A bit rubbish. A pity as Sinhala script is very pretty.

lucy24

4:12 am on Feb 18, 2023 (gmt 0)

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I deal with this kind of thing by pasting into SubEthaEdit and then hitting cmd-R for html preview. Brings the entities right up :)

Most South Indian scripts are very pretty--Tamil for some reason less than others.

In Hindi, the same word कल (yes, I know) means both yesterday and tomorrow. Messrs. Sapir and Whorf would probably have something stupid to say about that.