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Part 7 · VIDEHA MITHILA MAITHILI DISCUSSION CRITICISM SERIES PART 7

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1. 0:00–0:30विश्वार देवार नाप, विश्वार नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कवित
2. 0:30–0:36And then right next to that precisely 2,204 IT glossary terms.
3. 0:36–0:37It's quite the termination.
4. 0:37–0:38It really is.
5. 0:38–0:41Because I haven't just given you a list of vocabulary at that point.
6. 0:41–0:43I've given you a map of a civilization's mind.
7. 0:43–0:47So welcome to another deep dive into the hidden frameworks of the world.
8. 0:47–0:49Glad to be here for this one.
9. 0:49–0:52Today we are exploring an incredibly unique document.
10. 0:52–0:55And for you listening, we're not dissecting a medical journal.
11. 0:55–0:58We aren't looking at a geopolitical news piece.
12. 0:58–0:59We're looking at a dictionary.
13. 0:59–1:05dictionary. Well, a thesaurus, technically. Right, yes. Specifically, an excerpt from this massive
14. 1:05–1:10English mythily thesaurus, which was compiled by the lexicographer, Gugendra Thakur. Yeah,
15. 1:10–1:16and it's a monumental piece of work. It is. And our mission today is to uncover how a dictionary
16. 1:16–1:21acts as a cartography of human experience, revealing what a society truly values,
17. 1:21–1:27how it survives, and honestly, how it anticipates the future just entirely through the specific
18. 1:27–1:28words it chooses to define.
19. 1:28–1:29Absolutely.
20. 1:29–1:31Okay, let's untack this.
21. 1:31–1:36Because to fully understand the scope of this map, we really need to understand the linguistic
22. 1:36–1:38landscape it's charting in the first place.
23. 1:38–1:41Yeah, so that landscape is Matthewle.
24. 1:41–1:46It's an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bihar and Harkhand states of India,
25. 1:46–1:49and also across the border in the Eastern Terraria region of Nepal.
26. 1:49–1:50Okay, got it.
27. 1:50–1:55And it is a language with this remarkably rich ancient literary tradition, but today
28. 1:55–2:01it exists in a modern ecosystem where it constantly faces the gravitational pull of dominant national
29. 2:01–2:06languages. Like Hindi. Right. Like Hindi or obviously global languages like English. Right.
30. 2:06–2:11And to help us navigate this tension between ancient tradition and modern survival, I want
31. 2:11–2:15to bring you into the conversation right away. Because the first thing that strikes me
32. 2:15–2:19about this text isn't even just the words themselves. It's where this text actually
33. 2:19–2:23lives. The hosting platform, yes. Exactly. This isn't some dusty leather-bound tome
34. 2:23–2:30sitting on a pedestal in a university archive. It is part of an ongoing open source GitHub project
35. 2:32–2:36hosted by Vadeha, which is the first Moffillie Fortnightly e-journal.
36. 2:36–2:40And that detail is just foundational to everything we are going to discuss today.
37. 2:40–2:41How so?
38. 2:41–2:46Well, the fact that it is open source and living on a platform like GitHub tells you immediately
39. 2:46–2:50what the lexicographer's intention is here. This isn't just a preservation project,
40. 2:50–2:53you know. It is an active modernization project.
41. 2:53–2:55Let me push back on that for a second though.
42. 2:55–2:58Because when I think of GitHub, I think of software developers.
43. 2:58–2:58Oh, for sure.
44. 2:58–3:03I think of Python, C++, A, version control for code.
45. 3:04–3:08How does a linguistic thesaurus function in an environment built for software engineering?
46. 3:08–3:11Like are people submitting pull requests for nouns?
47. 3:11–3:13I mean that is exactly what they are doing.
48. 3:13–3:13Wait, really?
49. 3:13–3:18Yeah. And it is a brilliant application of the technology.
50. 3:18–3:21Think about how a language actually evolves in the real world.
51. 3:21–3:21Right.
52. 3:21–3:27It doesn't evolve because a single council of elders sits in a room and dictates it.
53. 3:27–3:29It evolves through mass collaboration.
54. 3:29–3:32A teenager coins a term, a community adopts it, it spreads.
55. 3:32–3:38Exactly. Open source lexicography mimics that organic evolution, but it digitizes it.
56. 3:38–3:41So by putting the the source on GitHub,
57. 3:41–3:45Bejendra Thakhar is allowing researchers, native speakers, and linguists
58. 3:45–3:48to collaboratively update the database in real time.
59. 3:48–3:51Oh wow. So if a new IT term emerges.
60. 3:51–3:57Someone can propose a mathilly equivalent, then the community reviews it, and if it works,
61. 3:57–3:59it gets merged into the main repository.
62. 3:59–4:03That is so cool. So it's essentially linguistic genetic engineering.
63. 4:03–4:04That's a great way to put it.
64. 4:04–4:10You are taking a historic organism, the mathilly language, and giving it a collaborative
65. 4:10–4:12digital immune system so it can adapt to a new climate.
66. 4:12–4:17Precisely. And you see the sheer scale of that ambition when you look at the numbers.
67. 4:17–4:19The numbers are insane.
68. 4:19–4:20They really are.
69. 4:20–4:26This project contains a staggering 361,989 total entries.
70. 4:26–4:29Which is an astronomical figure for a single lexicographical project.
71. 4:29–4:32Over 260,000 entries.
72. 4:32–4:36But what I found completely fascinating was the distribution of those entries.
73. 4:36–4:38With alphabetical spread.
74. 4:38–4:42The letter S alone has 36,158 entries.
75. 4:42–4:44It is the largest section of the entire work.
76. 4:44–4:48Meanwhile, the letter X has exactly 309.
77. 4:48–4:49Well, you know, the distribution of vocabulary
78. 4:49–4:51across an alphabet is never an accident.
79. 4:51–4:54It is structural evidence of how the language operates.
80. 4:54–4:55What do you mean by that?
81. 4:55–4:57So in Indo-Aryan languages,
82. 4:57–4:59and specifically when you're mapping English
83. 4:59–5:02to languages with deep Sanskrit roots,
84. 5:02–5:05you often see a massive clustering around certain phones.
85. 5:05–5:06Okay, like S. Right.
86. 5:06–5:09The letter S in English handles an enormous amount
87. 5:09–5:11of heavy lifting with prefixes.
88. 5:11–5:13Think about words starting with sub,
89. 5:13–5:19super semi pseudo self. Oh, I see. Yeah. So when you map all of those complex English compound
90. 5:19–5:24words into Mathilli, it creates the sort of demographic explosion in that specific alphabetical
91. 5:24–5:29sector. So the structure of the dictionary itself reveals the architectural differences between
92. 5:29–5:33the two languages. Exactly. But the thesaurus doesn't stop at straightforward translations.
93. 5:33–5:41It includes 6,612 synonyms, 3,955 antonyms. And this is the part that ties back into the
94. 5:41–5:47the GitHub aspect we were just talking about exactly 2,204 IT glossary terms.
95. 5:47–5:48It's huge.
96. 5:48–5:49Right.
97. 5:49–5:51Why that specific combination?
98. 5:51–5:56We have ancient words for agriculture sitting directly adjacent to 2,000 words explaining
99. 5:56–5:58software architecture.
100. 5:58–6:03Because releasing this under an open source license and including that massive IT glossary
101. 6:03–6:06is an act of defiance against linguistic extinction.
102. 6:06–6:07Wow, defiance.
103. 6:07–6:08Yeah.
104. 6:08–6:12I mean, if a language cannot describe the tools of the modern economy, its speakers will
105. 6:12–6:14just abandon it when they go to work.
106. 6:14–6:15That makes total sense.
107. 6:15–6:16Right.
108. 6:16–6:19If a Mathili speaker has to switch to English every time they turn on a computer, the language
109. 6:19–6:22slowly becomes relegated to the domestic sphere.
110. 6:22–6:24It becomes a language you only speak to your grandparents.
111. 6:24–6:27And eventually it fades out entirely.
112. 6:27–6:28Exactly.
113. 6:28–6:34So by meticulously defining the language of computers, software, and the internet in
114. 6:34–6:40in Methili, the author is proving that Methili is a language of the present and the future.
115. 6:40–6:41It's a bridge between worlds.
116. 6:41–6:42It is.
117. 6:42–6:46But how exactly does this bridge function for the user?
118. 6:46–6:48Like practically speaking.
119. 6:48–6:53I think we should look at how the dictionary introduces the most basic building blocks
120. 6:53–6:56of the English language to the Methili speaker.
121. 6:56–6:57Oh, we definitely should.
122. 6:57–7:00Let's start with the very first entry, the letter A.
123. 7:00–7:01Great.
124. 7:01–7:04open a standard American or British dictionary,
125. 7:04–7:07the definition for A is usually entirely functional.
126. 7:07–7:08Very brief.
127. 7:08–7:10Yeah, it'll just tell you it's the first letter of the alphabet,
128. 7:10–7:12it's a vowel, and it's in definite article.
129. 7:12–7:13Boom, done.
130. 7:13–7:16But this thesaurus goes on an absolute historical odyssey
131. 7:16–7:18to explain the letter A.
132. 7:18–7:19It really does.
133. 7:19–7:22It traces the origin from Latin back to the Greek alpha,
134. 7:22–7:24and then all the way back to the Phoenician Aleph.
135. 7:24–7:27Which is such a profound pedagogical choice
136. 7:27–7:28by the lexicographer.
137. 7:28–7:29Why do you think he did it that way?
138. 7:29–7:36Well, he is not treating the Methodist speaker as just a passive consumer of English vocabulary.
139. 7:36–7:42By tracing the etymology back to the Phoenicians, he is providing a deep historical rationale
140. 7:42–7:46for why the dominant global language operates the way it does.
141. 7:46–7:49And the mechanical details of that history are incredible to read.
142. 7:49–7:54I mean, the text specifically notes that the original Phoenician LF was not a vowel at
143. 7:54–7:55all.
144. 7:55–7:56No, it wasn't.
145. 7:56–7:57It was a consonant.
146. 7:57–7:59And it was pronounced from the throat a glottal stop.
147. 7:59–8:00Yeah.
148. 8:00–8:04But because the Greeks, when they adopted the alphabet, didn't have vowel marks in their
149. 8:04–8:09own writing system to represent certain sounds, they essentially repurposed this throat consonant
150. 8:09–8:10into the vowel alpha.
151. 8:10–8:12It's fascinating, right?
152. 8:12–8:13It is.
153. 8:13–8:17I have to admit, I speak English every single day of my life and I had absolutely no idea
154. 8:17–8:21that the first letter of my alphabet started as a repurposed throat consonant.
155. 8:21–8:26It's a wonderful piece of historical engineering, but we have to ask why this specific mechanical
156. 8:26–8:28explanation is so crucial for a mythology speaker.
157. 8:28–8:29Okay, why is it?
158. 8:29–8:33So, Methili historically used the Terhuda script
159. 8:33–8:37and today predominantly uses Devanagari.
160. 8:37–8:40Both of these are what linguists call abugidas.
161. 8:40–8:41Abugidas.
162. 8:41–8:44Yes, not true alphabets in the Greco-Roman sense.
163. 8:44–8:45Can you break down the difference
164. 8:45–8:47for us like how does an abugida work
165. 8:47–8:49compared to the English alphabet?
166. 8:49–8:50Certainly.
167. 8:50–8:53So in the English alphabet, consonants and vowels
168. 8:53–8:56have equal independent status.
169. 8:56–8:58You write C, then you write A, then you write T.
170. 8:58–8:59Right.
171. 8:59–9:03Abhugita like Devanagari, the consonant is the primary unit and the vowel is treated
172. 9:03–9:07as a secondary modification. It's a diacritic mark attached to the consonant.
173. 9:07–9:08Oh, I get it.
174. 9:08–9:14Right. So if you write a consonant by itself, it automatically implies a default vowel sound.
175. 9:14–9:17To change the vowel, you add a mark above, below, or next to the consonant.
176. 9:17–9:21So the fundamental architecture of how you actually build a word is completely different.
177. 9:21–9:26Exactly. So when a Methilese speaker encounters the English alphabet, the idea of standalone,
178. 9:26–9:32independent vowel letters can seem completely counterintuitive to their native phonetic logic.
179. 9:32–9:33That makes a lot of sense.
180. 9:33–9:38Yeah, so by explaining that the Greeks had to invent independent vowels because they lacked
181. 9:38–9:42the necessary marks, the lexicographer demystifies the English system.
182. 9:42–9:46Right, it isn't just an arbitrary rule they have to memorize, it's a historical
183. 9:46–9:47workaround.
184. 9:47–9:48Precisely.
185. 9:48–9:53It allows the Mathiliy speaker to understand the structural logic of English rather than
186. 9:53–9:54just memorizing it blindly.
187. 9:54–9:55I love that.
188. 9:55–10:00When the text doesn't even stop at linguistics, it goes on to define A in the context of Western
189. 10:00–10:01music.
190. 10:01–10:02Oh yeah.
191. 10:02–10:07It explicitly states that A is the sixth note in the C major scale, the first note in
192. 10:07–10:12the A minor scale, and specifically the note used to tune the second string of a violin.
193. 10:12–10:16What's fascinating here is how the dictionary operates as a cultural encyclopedia.
194. 10:16–10:21Because South Asian classical music, including traditions familiar in the Mithila region,
195. 10:21–10:23operates on the Raga system.
196. 10:23–10:29doesn't use the Western-tempered scale of C major or E minor at all. It relies on a completely
197. 10:29–10:33different structural philosophy involving microtones or shruti.
198. 10:33–10:38So translating A minor isn't just translating a sound, it's explaining an entirely foreign
199. 10:38–10:41mathematical framework for organizing frequencies.
200. 10:41–10:46Precisely. If you only translate vocabulary, you are just swapping labels. A dog is a
201. 10:46–10:47dog.
202. 10:47–10:48Sure.
203. 10:48–10:52But when you explain the C major scale, or the tuning of a violin, you are giving
204. 10:52–10:56the reader the conceptual key to understand Western musical theory.
205. 10:56–10:59But let me challenge this encyclopedic ambition for just a moment.
206. 10:59–11:00Go for it.
207. 11:00–11:04Because the entry for A also goes heavily into maritime shipping.
208. 11:04–11:05Ah, yes.
209. 11:05–11:10Yeah, it explains that in Lloyd's Registry, the term A1 is used to designate first class
210. 11:10–11:11ships.
211. 11:11–11:15Now, Mathila is a region spanning Northern India and Nepal.
212. 11:15–11:16It is entirely landlocked.
213. 11:16–11:17Very much so.
214. 11:17–11:20The nearest ocean is hundreds of miles away.
215. 11:20–11:24Why on earth does a Mathili farmer or a student need to know the rating system of British
216. 11:24–11:26maritime insurance?
217. 11:26–11:28Isn't this just an academic flex by the lexicographer?
218. 11:28–11:32Well, it might seem like an academic flex if you view the dictionary solely as a localized
219. 11:32–11:33tool.
220. 11:33–11:35But remember the mission of this project?
221. 11:35–11:39It is about equipping the Mathili speaker with global literacy.
222. 11:39–11:44The British Empire, which was driven by maritime commerce and insured by entities like Lloyds
223. 11:44–11:47of London, shaped the modern global economy.
224. 11:47–11:48Right, of course.
225. 11:48–11:53So the phrase A1 entered the global lexicon to mean first class or excellent precisely
226. 11:53–11:55because of that shipping registry.
227. 11:55–12:02Oh, so when someone says this restaurant is A1, they're unknowingly referencing maritime
228. 12:02–12:03insurance.
229. 12:03–12:04Exactly.
230. 12:04–12:10And if you want a Mephili speaker to fully participate in global English literature, commerce
231. 12:10–12:14and idioms, they really need to understand the historical context of those idioms.
232. 12:14–12:15That is brilliant.
233. 12:15–12:18isn't assuming the reader wants to buy a boat, you know?
234. 12:18–12:20It's assuming the reader wants to decode
235. 12:20–12:23the linguistic legacy of global trade.
236. 12:23–12:24Wow.
237. 12:24–12:26So we see how meticulously this document translates
238. 12:26–12:28the mechanics and history of the West
239. 12:28–12:29for the Methillie speaker.
240. 12:29–12:32But I think the true revelation of this deep dive,
241. 12:32–12:34the part where we really see the map of the mind,
242. 12:34–12:35happens in reverse.
243. 12:35–12:36Oh, absolutely.
244. 12:36–12:38It happens when we look at how hyperspecific
245. 12:38–12:42Methillie words map onto English concepts.
246. 12:42–12:44And to understand that, we really
247. 12:44–12:48We need to start from the absolute foundation of the society.
248. 12:48–12:50We need to talk about the agrarian ecosystem.
249. 12:50–12:54We have to look at the soil, because that is where the culture is literally rooted.
250. 12:54–12:55Right.
251. 12:55–12:59And this source material contains a taxonomy of the earth that is so granular, it makes
252. 12:59–13:02modern English look incredibly blunt.
253. 13:02–13:03Oh, it really does.
254. 13:03–13:06Let's look at patty, rice.
255. 13:06–13:10In English, I might have a vocabulary of three or four types, white rice, brown
256. 13:10–13:14rice, maybe jasmine or arboreo if I'm cooking something specific.
257. 13:14–13:18This dictionary lists dozens upon dozens of highly specific types of patty.
258. 13:18–13:22We see entries for basmati, sati, laumati, amana, anandi.
259. 13:22–13:28The entries literally read, a type of patty patasa, a type of patty ramkissari, page after
260. 13:28–13:29page of this.
261. 13:29–13:32This illustrates a fundamental principle of linguistics, honestly.
262. 13:32–13:36A culture will inevitably develop a highly differentiated vocabulary for the things
263. 13:36–13:39that are most crucial to its physical survival and economic stability.
264. 13:39–13:40Which makes perfect sense.
265. 13:40–13:46Yeah, in traditional mythola, rice is not a side dish you buy in a plastic bag at the supermarket.
266. 13:46–13:52It is the economic bedrock. So the different types of patty represent different growing seasons,
267. 13:52–13:58different drought resistances, different cultural uses. Perhaps one type is strictly for daily
268. 13:58–14:03consumption while another, like a specific aromatic basmati, is reserved for religious
269. 14:03–14:09festivals or doweries. And to support that incredible variety of patty, you cannot just
270. 14:09–14:14have a generic word for dirt. No, you definitely cannot. The text categorizes soil types with
271. 14:14–14:21a mechanical precision that is frankly astonishing. We see words for soil like kum, chad, matka,
272. 14:21–14:28leti, satak, dol. Because to an agrarian society, dirt is a useless, flattened concept. It's too
273. 14:28–14:33vague. Exactly. Soil is a dynamic living matrix. Let's look at the mechanical differences. A
274. 14:33–14:38soil categorized as matka might refer to a heavy clay rich earth that retains water perfectly
275. 14:38–14:41for patty cultivation during the monsoon.
276. 14:41–14:45But if you try to grow certain types of root vegetables in that same soil, they will just
277. 14:45–14:46rot.
278. 14:46–14:47Oh, because it holds too much water.
279. 14:47–14:48Right.
280. 14:48–14:53Conversely, a lighter, sandier soil, perhaps categorized as ledi or chad, might drain
281. 14:53–14:58too quickly for rice, but be absolutely perfect for specific cash crops.
282. 14:58–15:03So lacking the vocabulary to distinguish between matka and ledi isn't just a linguistic
283. 15:03–15:04gap.
284. 15:04–15:06It's a recipe for agricultural failure.
285. 15:06–15:09It is the difference between a harvest and a famine.
286. 15:09–15:14When a father tells his son to plant a specific crop, he must be able to specify the exact
287. 15:14–15:17patch of earth by its mechanical properties.
288. 15:17–15:20The language encodes the agricultural science of the civilization.
289. 15:20–15:26It's funny, people always bring up that famous and honestly highly debated concept of Eskimos
290. 15:26–15:28having 50 words for snow.
291. 15:28–15:32We use it as the ultimate pop culture example of environment shaping language.
292. 15:32–15:34But we don't even need a pop culture myth here.
293. 15:34–15:36We have documented reality.
294. 15:36–15:41This community has dozens of words for soil, dozens of words for rice, and an incredible
295. 15:41–15:42specificity for grass.
296. 15:42–15:44The grass taxonomy is amazing.
297. 15:44–15:45It is.
298. 15:45–15:50The dictionary lists terms for grass, like muthah, kar, manj, jala, arkat, and sugar
299. 15:50–15:51cane.
300. 15:51–15:53Kitar, parrup, uruk.
301. 15:53–15:58If we connect this to the cognitive framework of the speaker, having a distinct noun for
302. 15:58–16:03a specific grass, like manj, means you understand its exact utility.
303. 16:03–16:05Like what you can use it for.
304. 16:05–16:06Yeah.
305. 16:06–16:14It's tensile strength. You know if it can be woven into a durable rope if it makes for good roof thatching or if it will burn too quickly in a fire.
306. 16:14–16:19And modern urban English collapses all of this into just the word grass or weed.
307. 16:19–16:24Exactly, because we don't interact with the mechanical properties of the plant. We just mow it.
308. 16:24–16:26We just mow it. Yeah. That's so true.
309. 16:26–16:32But this dictionary proves that the Mathilli culture reads its environment with the precision of a structural engineer.
310. 16:32–16:33It really does.
311. 16:33–16:36And that precision completely extends into the animal kingdom too.
312. 16:36–16:38The fauna.
313. 16:38–16:41Because if the soil is the factory floor, the animals are the machinery.
314. 16:41–16:43The living engines of the agrarian economy.
315. 16:43–16:45Exactly.
316. 16:45–16:46Let's look at the fish first.
317. 16:46–16:49The rivers of Bihar and Nepal are massive ecological arteries,
318. 16:49–16:51and the vocabulary reflects that.
319. 16:51–16:54We see Jhinga, Magur, Rohu, Bakva, Kotal.
320. 16:54–16:58But then it gets descriptive based on utility and threat.
321. 16:58–17:02There's a specific term for a large freshwater fish, which is bulaki.
322. 17:03–17:05And there's a distinct term for a snake-like fish.
323. 17:06–17:10But the animal that dominates this taxonomy, the undeniable center of the
324. 17:10–17:13agrarian universe is the bullock.
325. 17:13–17:14Oh, without a doubt.
326. 17:14–17:18The dictionary lists classifications for cattle that are incredibly specific.
327. 17:18–17:22Turrac, Langa, Lothra, Chow Lai, Carrick and Jangi.
328. 17:22–17:25This is where biology and capital investment intersect.
329. 17:25–17:25How so?
330. 17:25–17:30While in traditional South Asian agriculture, the bullock is indispensable.
331. 17:30–17:33It is the tractor, the transport vehicle, the heavy lifter.
332. 17:33–17:38A pair of healthy bullocks represents a massive percentage of a farming family's net worth.
333. 17:38–17:42So if you are going to the market to buy or sell one, you don't just say, I'm looking for a cow.
334. 17:42–17:46Never. You need vocabulary that functions as a highly detailed vehicle identification number.
335. 17:46–17:48A VIN number for a cow.
336. 17:48–17:52Exactly. A term like Carrick might indicate a whitish coloring,
337. 17:52–17:55which could be tied to a specific breed known for heat tolerance.
338. 17:55–17:56Oh, that's smart.
339. 17:56–18:01And a term like langod often indicates a physical quirk or a limp,
340. 18:01–18:05which obviously severely impacts its market value
341. 18:05–18:07and its ability to pull a plow in a straight line.
342. 18:07–18:09Right, you need a straight line for a plow.
343. 18:09–18:13Yeah, so if you are negotiating a dowry or trading assets,
344. 18:13–18:16you need to communicate the exact physical and
345. 18:16–18:19temperamental specifications of the animal.
346. 18:19–18:22It's literally like a modern logistics company
347. 18:22–18:28having 20 different words for different types of freight trikes. You need to know if you're getting a flatbed or a refrigerated trailer.
348. 18:28–18:29Exactly.
349. 18:29–18:37Here's where it gets really interesting for me though. It's not just the big economically vital animals that get this level of linguistic attention.
350. 18:38–18:40The text captures tiny,
351. 18:40–18:42hyper specific micro environment.
352. 18:42–18:43Yes.
353. 18:43–18:49There is an entry specifically for a bird which lives in a bamboo patch defined as a saras.
354. 18:49–18:53Just think about the depth of observational patients required for that concept to solidify
355. 18:53–18:58into a specific noun. It requires generations of people quietly observing the borders of their
356. 18:58–19:05fields, noting how a specific avian species favors the exact microclimate and insect life
357. 19:05–19:09of a bamboo patch, and deciding that this ecological relationship is reliable enough
358. 19:09–19:15to warrant its own identifier. Yes, and it gets even more granular with insects. My absolute
359. 19:15–19:20favorite part of this dictionary is the distinction it makes between ants and bugs.
360. 19:20–19:25It defines a poisonous ant, noting it as lohari or subapiri.
361. 19:25–19:30And right near it, there is an entry for a mini-legged bug which does not bite.
362. 19:30–19:33That is language functioning as a generational safety manual.
363. 19:33–19:34Exactly.
364. 19:34–19:38You teach your child the word for the poisonous ant so they know to step back, but you
365. 19:38–19:42also explicitly teach them the word for the mini-legged bug that does not bite so they
366. 19:42–19:45don't panic or waste energy destroying something harmless.
367. 19:45–19:51It reveals a society that doesn't just look at nature as a green blur of bugs and birds.
368. 19:51–19:52Right, like we often do today.
369. 19:52–19:57They see a complex interactive web where every single participant has a known behavior and
370. 19:57–19:59a specific name.
371. 19:59–20:04It really highlights a severe psychological boundary in modern urban life.
372. 20:04–20:05What do you mean?
373. 20:05–20:08We suffer from a sort of environmental blindness.
374. 20:08–20:13Because we don't depend on the bamboo patch or the soil type for our immediate survival,
375. 20:13–20:15our language has pruned all those words away.
376. 20:15–20:17We just see generic nature.
377. 20:17–20:18Just trees and dirt.
378. 20:18–20:19Right.
379. 20:19–20:22The methylethysaurus shows us a mind that is fully,
380. 20:22–20:25intimately integrated into its physical surroundings.
381. 20:25–20:28Which naturally leads us to how this highly observant,
382. 20:28–20:32highly specialized society categorizes its own people.
383. 20:32–20:34Because this intense agrarian specialization,
384. 20:34–20:37the fact that someone has to weave the mung grass
385. 20:37–20:39and someone else has to evaluate the Langaed Bullock,
386. 20:39–20:42necessitates a rigidly specialized workforce.
387. 20:42–20:43It does.
388. 20:43–20:44And that specialization immediately
389. 20:44–20:47leads into how they categorize human beings.
390. 20:47–20:50So let's move from the physical taxonomy of the earth
391. 20:50–20:51to the tapestry of society.
392. 20:51–20:53This is where the dictionary transitions
393. 20:53–20:55from an agricultural manual
394. 20:55–20:57into a profound sociological document.
395. 20:57–21:00It maps out the exact nodes of human interaction
396. 21:00–21:01and social hierarchy.
397. 21:01–21:03And those nodes are defined
398. 21:03–21:05with incredibly sharp boundaries.
399. 21:05–21:07Let's look at occupations.
400. 21:07–21:09The dictionary doesn't just give us a generic word
401. 21:09–21:10for someone who cuts grass.
402. 21:10–21:12It translates a grass cutter,
403. 21:12–21:15but then specifically delineates a male grass cutter
404. 21:15–21:17and a female grass cutter.
405. 21:17–21:18Right.
406. 21:18–21:19It doesn't just define a shoemaker,
407. 21:19–21:22it goes out of its way to specifically translate
408. 21:22–21:24a shoemaker's wife.
409. 21:24–21:27We see distinct entries for a person involved in business,
410. 21:27–21:30a street sweeper, and a snake charmer defined as a sapra.
411. 21:30–21:33What you're seeing here is the linguistic codification
412. 21:33–21:35of a highly structured communal
413. 21:35–21:37and historically caste-based society.
414. 21:37–21:38Right.
415. 21:38–21:39In these traditional structures,
416. 21:39–21:42your occupation isn't just what you do from nine to five,
417. 21:42–21:45It is your identity, your social status, and your lineage.
418. 21:45–21:48But why the specific focus on a shoemaker's wife
419. 21:48–21:49or a female grass cutter?
420. 21:49–21:52Like why does the language need to draw a circle
421. 21:52–21:53around the spouse of the worker?
422. 21:53–21:55Well, because in a traditional guild or caste system,
423. 21:55–21:58the family unit is the economic unit.
424. 21:58–22:00The shoemaker's wife is not separated
425. 22:00–22:01from the labor of shoemaking.
426. 22:01–22:05She likely plays a highly specific, socially recognized
427. 22:05–22:08role in the preparation of materials
428. 22:08–22:10or the running of the household economy
429. 22:10–22:11that supports that trade.
430. 22:11–22:17makes total sense. By having a distinct word for her, the language acknowledges her specific
431. 22:17–22:23social coordinate. It shows how deeply intertwined gender roles and occupational roles are. You are
432. 22:23–22:29never an anonymous individual in the society. You are heavily contextualized by your family's trade
433. 22:29–22:34and your gender within it. It's a society of extreme visibility. Everyone knows exactly
434. 22:34–22:39where everyone else fits in the machinery of the village. And it gets even more intricate
435. 22:39–22:42when we look at social specificities and interpersonal relationships.
436. 22:42–22:43Oh, definitely.
437. 22:43–22:48The dictionary provides a translation for a male person fond of woman's company.
438. 22:48–22:53This is a fascinatingly specific behavioral critique embedded directly into a noun.
439. 22:53–22:55Right. It's not an adjective. It's a defined type of person.
440. 22:56–23:01Then there is a distinct word for a boy up to five years old, which is Kumar.
441. 23:01–23:03It doesn't just say child or toddler.
442. 23:03–23:06It defines a very specific developmental and ritual window.
443. 23:06–23:11And then we see words that carry immense, often tragic social weight.
444. 23:12–23:14There is a specific word for a barren woman.
445. 23:15–23:18The existence of that specific noun speaks volumes about the
446. 23:18–23:22psychological framework of a traditional patriarchal society.
447. 23:22–23:23How so?
448. 23:23–23:26Well, in a culture where lineage, inheritance, and agrarian labor
449. 23:26–23:30rely entirely on producing offspring, fertility is the absolute
450. 23:30–23:32center of a woman's social value.
451. 23:32–23:32Wow.
452. 23:32–23:35So if a woman cannot have children, she isn't just experiencing
453. 23:35–23:40a personal medical issue, she occupies a completely different isolated social category.
454. 23:40–23:45Precisely. The language creates a boundary around her because the society creates a boundary
455. 23:45–23:50around her. The vocabulary reflects the immense societal pressure and the strict conditional
456. 23:50–23:52terms of social acceptance.
457. 23:52–23:56It really makes you evaluate the words we use for each other today. I want you, the listener,
458. 23:56–24:00to think about your own social network for a second. If you look at your contacts list
459. 24:00–24:03on your phone, you probably just see friends and coworkers.
460. 24:03–24:05Right. Very broad categories.
461. 24:05–24:11Exactly. But this mathily text captures incredibly fine social gradients.
462. 24:11–24:18There is a specific word for a formal friend, mit, which is distinct from the concept of a life friend.
463. 24:18–24:21There is even a highly specific entry for a female friend's son.
464. 24:21–24:25Which perfectly illustrates the extended nature of kinship networks.
465. 24:25–24:30In a hyper-communal society, the son of your female friend is not a random acquaintance.
466. 24:30–24:33He occupies a defined node in your social web.
467. 24:33–24:38you likely have specific duties toward him during festivals or certain expectations of respect from him.
468. 24:38–24:39Right.
469. 24:39–24:43The language maps that relationship so that the social obligations are clear.
470. 24:43–24:47But every structured society has people who fall outside those boundaries.
471. 24:47–24:48Oh, sure.
472. 24:48–24:52And the dictionary captures them too. On the fringes of this highly organized village,
473. 24:52–24:57we see entries for a naked yogi, a spirit-possessed man, and a swindler.
474. 24:57–24:59Every culture needs a vocabulary for its anomalies.
475. 24:59–25:00Anomalies, yeah.
476. 25:00–25:06The naked yogi and the spirit-possessed man represent the acceptable spiritual fringe
477. 25:06–25:11individuals who have intentionally discarded the strict social contracts of occupation and family
478. 25:11–25:17for religious or supernatural pursuits. The swindler represents the unacceptable criminal fringe.
479. 25:17–25:22But by giving them distinct nouns, the society conceptually contains them.
480. 25:22–25:25They might be outside the normal rules, but they are still on the map.
481. 25:25–25:30Exactly. And speaking of that spiritual fringe, the transition from the physical village to the
482. 25:30–25:36metaphysical world is seamless in this text. The vocabulary of daily life bleeds directly into
483. 25:36–25:42the vocabulary of myth and spirit. Which brings us to the soul of the Mithila region. We've looked
484. 25:42–25:47at how they map the earth and the society, but how do they map the intangible? The dictionary
485. 25:47–25:51captures the celebratory and mythical life of the region with incredible joy. It really does.
486. 25:51–25:55We see entries for major festivals like Chathi, which honors the sun god,
487. 25:55–25:59involves highly specific rituals at bodies of water.
488. 25:59–26:01We see Gadi Pavani, a local festival.
489. 26:01–26:02I love this one.
490. 26:02–26:04There is an entry for a festival celebrated
491. 26:04–26:06with eating sattu called settuyn.
492. 26:06–26:09Sattu is a roasted gram flour.
493. 26:09–26:11It's a major nutritional staple in the region,
494. 26:11–26:13especially during the summer.
495. 26:13–26:14Oh, interesting.
496. 26:14–26:16So you have a festival that is literally
497. 26:16–26:18defined by the communal seasonal consumption
498. 26:18–26:22of a highly specific local agricultural product.
499. 26:22–26:25The agriculture and the spirituality are one and the same.
500. 26:25–26:27That's beautiful.
501. 26:27–26:30The text also translates a religious fasting performed
502. 26:30–26:31on every Tuesday.
503. 26:31–26:33It's not just a generic word for fasting.
504. 26:33–26:35The specific day of the planetary week
505. 26:35–26:38is baked into the linguistic practice.
506. 26:38–26:42And then we move from ritual into pure mythology.
507. 26:42–26:46The dictionary defines Videa as a mythical king of mythola
508. 26:46–26:50called Janak, who famously appears in the epic Ramayana.
509. 26:50–26:52It translates the mythical capital city of Cuba,
510. 26:52–26:53the god of wealth.
511. 26:53–26:57and it has an entry for a mythical tree fulfilling all desires,
512. 26:57–26:58known as the perijet.
513. 26:58–27:00If we connect this to the bigger picture,
514. 27:00–27:02this is where we return to the dual purpose
515. 27:02–27:05of this entire lexicographical project.
516. 27:05–27:06The preservation and modernization
517. 27:06–27:07we talked about earlier.
518. 27:07–27:08Exactly.
519. 27:08–27:12Language is the primary and often the only vessel
520. 27:12–27:15for a culture's indigenous worldview.
521. 27:15–27:18Without the specific nouns for these local myths,
522. 27:18–27:21the myths evaporate under the pressure of globalization.
523. 27:21–27:21Oh, yeah.
524. 27:21–27:27By taking these highly localized concepts, the Parajat tree, King Janak, and defining
525. 27:27–27:32them clearly in English, Gajendra Thakur is performing a vital act of cultural diplomacy.
526. 27:32–27:35He's explaining the Mathili soul to the outside world.
527. 27:35–27:40Yes, but more importantly, he's explaining it to his own people.
528. 27:40–27:45Think about the psychological impact on a young Mathili student who is learning English.
529. 27:45–27:49If the only English dictionary available to them uses examples about snowmen and British
530. 27:49–27:53kings and oak trees. What is the subconscious lesson there?
531. 27:53–27:56The lesson is that English is a language that cannot accommodate their reality.
532. 27:56–27:57Exactly.
533. 27:57–28:02It creates a psychological divide where English belongs to the modern global world and Mathili
534. 28:02–28:04belongs to the dusty past.
535. 28:04–28:06It alienates them from their own context.
536. 28:06–28:11But when their bilingual dictionary uses English to define Jat-Jat-Tin, which the
537. 28:11–28:17text proudly notes is a methodally folk dance, or when it defines Kamar as a load carrying
538. 28:17–28:22water for pouring over Shiva, it fundamentally rewires that relationship.
539. 28:22–28:23That is so powerful.
540. 28:23–28:27It tells the student, English is merely a tool.
541. 28:27–28:32You can completely colonize this global language with your own gods, your own dances, and
542. 28:32–28:33your own backyard.
543. 28:33–28:35I absolutely love that framing.
544. 28:35–28:37You don't hide from the global language.
545. 28:37–28:39You colonize it with your own concepts.
546. 28:39–28:42You force it to hold the weight of the wish-fulfilling Parjat tree.
547. 28:42–28:46It validates the local culture on an international stage.
548. 28:46–28:50It proves that local identity and global participation are not mutually exclusive.
549. 28:50–28:55And speaking of forcing English to hold weight, that brings us to the final and to my mind
550. 28:55–28:57the most ambitious aspect of this thesaurus.
551. 28:57–28:58This is the best part.
552. 28:58–29:02We've talked extensively about the soil, the bullocks, the social castes, the local
553. 29:02–29:04festivals.
554. 29:04–29:08If we stopped here, it'd be very easy for a skeptic to say, okay, this is a wonderful
555. 29:08–29:11dictionary of rustic traditional village life.
556. 29:11–29:13It's a great historical artifact.
557. 29:13–29:15Right, just box it into the rustic category.
558. 29:15–29:20But the lexicographer aggressively rejects being boxed into that category.
559. 29:20–29:22He bridges the abstract.
560. 29:22–29:26He tackles highly complex Western academic and legal frameworks.
561. 29:26–29:28This is the intellectual apex of the project.
562. 29:28–29:34The text includes incredibly precise, mafilli definitions for complex Latin-derived English
563. 29:34–29:35terminology.
564. 29:35–29:36Let's look at philosophy.
565. 29:36–29:40The dictionary takes on the terms a priori and a posteriori.
566. 29:40–29:42These are not light concepts.
567. 29:42–29:46These are the absolute bedrock of Western epistemology, heavily associated with the
568. 29:46–29:48philosopher Emmanuel Kant and the Enlightenment.
569. 29:48–29:51Right, and the text doesn't flinch.
570. 29:51–29:56It defines a priori perfectly as knowledge prior to experience, deductive reasoning.
571. 29:56–30:01Defines a posteriori as empirical knowledge derived from experience and observation,
572. 30:01–30:03reasoning from facts to general principles.
573. 30:03–30:07To see these dense, Latin-based philosophical mechanisms translated into the language of
574. 30:07–30:10the mythola agrarian ecosystem is stunning.
575. 30:10–30:16it requires immense linguistic agility. The lexicographer has to find or construct
576. 30:16–30:21Masseille phrasing that accurately conveys the logical mechanism of deductive versus inductive
577. 30:21–30:27reasoning. He's actively stretching the language to hold the weight of Western epistemological
578. 30:27–30:31debate. He's the same thing for Western law too. There's an entry for the legal term,
579. 30:31–30:36Amensa et Thuro. Oh wow. Yeah, for those who aren't lawyers, this is a Latin phrase meaning
580. 30:36–30:41from table and bed. The dictionary defines it as a legal separation allowing a husband and wife
581. 30:41–30:46to live apart without dissolving the marriage bond itself. And jumping over to the arts,
582. 30:46–30:51it defines a capella as church-style singing without instrumental accompaniment.
583. 30:51–30:56Which again requires explaining the context of Western ecclesiastical choir traditions to a culture
584. 30:56–31:01rooted in the raga system and Hindu devotional music. Okay, let me play Divil's advocate again,
585. 31:01–31:04because this is crucial. Why is this necessary? We just established that the
586. 31:04–31:07that the Methilic culture has a hyper-specific,
587. 31:07–31:09incredibly rich vocabulary
588. 31:09–31:12for its own legal, social, and spiritual life.
589. 31:12–31:14Why spend the time and linguistic energy
590. 31:14–31:18translating 18th century Western legal jargon
591. 31:18–31:20or Kantian philosophy into a language
592. 31:20–31:22primarily spoken by millions of people
593. 31:22–31:24in Bihar and Nepal?
594. 31:24–31:26What is the lexicographer actually proving
595. 31:26–31:29by putting a priori right next to the word
596. 31:29–31:32for a bamboo basket for keeping fish?
597. 31:32–31:34He is attacking the most dangerous prejudice
598. 31:34–31:36in modern linguistics.
599. 31:36–31:37Which is?
600. 31:37–31:38It is a prejudice often internalized
601. 31:38–31:41by the speakers of minority languages themselves.
602. 31:41–31:44The idea that their native tongue isn't smart enough
603. 31:44–31:45for the modern world.
604. 31:45–31:45Oh, wow.
605. 31:45–31:47Many speakers of regional languages assume
606. 31:47–31:49that their mother tongue is perfectly fine
607. 31:49–31:52for talking about farming or cooking or family matters,
608. 31:52–31:55but they believe that if they wanna discuss quantum physics
609. 31:55–31:58or high level jurisprudence or Contine philosophy,
610. 31:58–32:01they must switch to English or Hindi.
611. 32:01–32:03They accept a glass ceiling on their own language.
612. 32:03–32:03Exactly.
613. 32:03–32:06They accept that their language is a relic of the domestic sphere.
614. 32:06–32:10By painstakingly translating the mechanics of abstract logic
615. 32:10–32:12and highly specific Western legal constructs,
616. 32:12–32:15Kajendro Thakur shatters that glass ceiling.
617. 32:15–32:16He just breaks it completely.
618. 32:16–32:19He is proving, structurally, that Methili
619. 32:19–32:23is a robust, dynamic, and fully capable intellectual
620. 32:23–32:24instrument.
621. 32:24–32:26It doesn't have to relegate itself
622. 32:26–32:27to the fields and the festivals.
623. 32:27–32:30It is perfectly capable of sitting in the Supreme Court
624. 32:30–32:34or the University Lecture Hall, or the software development firm,
625. 32:34–32:36it can hold any concept the human mind can generate.
626. 32:36–32:38So what does this all mean for us?
627. 32:38–32:40When we take a step back from the granular details,
628. 32:40–32:43from the 360,000 entries, the throw
629. 32:43–32:45consonant origins of the letter A,
630. 32:45–32:47the mechanical differences in the clay soil,
631. 32:47–32:49the specific bird in the bamboo patch,
632. 32:49–32:52and the translation of Western epistemology,
633. 32:52–32:54what is the ultimate takeaway from reading
634. 32:54–32:55a dictionary as a map?
635. 32:55–32:57The takeaway is that true preservation
636. 32:57–33:00is not about trapping a culture in amber.
637. 33:00–33:05A dictionary like this is a living, breathing blueprint of a civilization.
638. 33:05–33:09I think this deep dive proves that a dictionary is never just a neutral list of definitions.
639. 33:09–33:10It is a mirror.
640. 33:10–33:11Yeah, it really is.
641. 33:11–33:15It reflects the deep agrarian past of the Mephili people.
642. 33:15–33:19The soil, the patty, the heavy capital investment of the bullocks that built their physical
643. 33:19–33:20world.
644. 33:20–33:25It reflects the intricate, sometimes harsh realities of their present, the rigid social
645. 33:25–33:31structures, the deeply observed ecosystem, the communal festivals, and through the 2200
646. 33:31–33:37IT terms and the philosophical integration on a GitHub repository, it fiercely claims its
647. 33:37–33:38right to the future.
648. 33:38–33:43It is a document that says, we observe this earth, we built the society, and we possess
649. 33:43–33:47the vocabulary to go wherever human thought goes next.
650. 33:47–33:49It is an absolute triumph of cultural resilience.
651. 33:49–33:53I want to thank you the listener for coming along on this exploration with us today.
652. 33:53–33:58It takes a certain kind of intellectual curiosity to look past the surface of a 400-page linguistic
653. 33:58–34:02database and see the living, breathing civilization humming underneath it.
654. 34:02–34:05But that is exactly what we've uncovered together.
655. 34:05–34:08We've traversed the cognitive map of the Macyly Mind.
656. 34:08–34:11It has been a genuinely fascinating structural journey.
657. 34:11–34:15But before we sign off, we want to leave you with a final, provocative thought.
658. 34:15–34:21Something to mull over as you go about your week, using your own words in your own environment.
659. 34:21–34:26We've spent this time analyzing how a culture's hyper-specific vocabulary reveals exactly
660. 34:26–34:31what they depend on, what they observe, and how they structure their reality.
661. 34:31–34:37The farmer has dozens of words for soil because their survival requires that mechanical knowledge.
662. 34:37–34:40So here is the question for you.
663. 34:40–34:44Imagine lexicographers a hundred years from now uncovering a comprehensive dictionary
664. 34:44–34:47of your specific, personal vocabulary.
665. 34:47–34:49Oh, that's a scary thought.
666. 34:49–34:54If they mapped out the highly specialized jargon you use at your workplace, the specific acronyms
667. 34:54–34:59you use for your screen time and digital habits, the hyper-specific terms you use for your hobbies,
668. 34:59–35:03what would they conclude about the mechanics of your survival? What would your personal
669. 35:03–35:07dictionary say about what you worship, what you fear, and what you value most?
670. 35:07–35:13Would they find a vocabulary deeply integrated with the physical world around you, or just
671. 35:13–35:1650 different words for digital distraction and corporate anxiety?
672. 35:16–35:18It's a map of your mind.
673. 35:18–35:20What does your map look like?
674. 35:20–35:25Thank you so much for joining us on this deep dive into the hidden frameworks of language.
675. 35:25–35:29Stay curious, keep questioning the tools you use to describe the world, and we will catch
676. 35:29–35:30you on the next one.

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विश्वार देवार नाप, विश्वार नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कविता, नाप कवित And then right next to that precisely 2,204 IT glossary terms. It's quite the termination. It really is. Because I haven't just given you a list of vocabulary at that point. I've given you a map of a civilization's mind. So welcome to another deep dive into the hidden frameworks of the world. Glad to be here for this one. Today we are exploring an incredibly unique document. And for you listening, we're not dissecting a medical journal. We aren't looking at a geopolitical news piece. We're looking at a dictionary. dictionary. Well, a thesaurus, technically. Right, yes. Specifically, an excerpt from this massive English mythily thesaurus, which was compiled by the lexicographer, Gugendra Thakur. Yeah, and it's a monumental piece of work. It is. And our mission today is to uncover how a dictionary acts as a cartography of human experience, revealing what a society truly values, how it survives, and honestly, how it anticipates the future just entirely through the specific words it chooses to define. Absolutely. Okay, let's untack this. Because to fully understand the scope of this map, we really need to understand the linguistic landscape it's charting in the first place. Yeah, so that landscape is Matthewle. It's an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bihar and Harkhand states of India, and also across the border in the Eastern Terraria region of Nepal. Okay, got it. And it is a language with this remarkably rich ancient literary tradition, but today it exists in a modern ecosystem where it constantly faces the gravitational pull of dominant national languages. Like Hindi. Right. Like Hindi or obviously global languages like English. Right. And to help us navigate this tension between ancient tradition and modern survival, I want to bring you into the conversation right away. Because the first thing that strikes me about this text isn't even just the words themselves. It's where this text actually lives. The hosting platform, yes. Exactly. This isn't some dusty leather-bound tome sitting on a pedestal in a university archive. It is part of an ongoing open source GitHub project hosted by Vadeha, which is the first Moffillie Fortnightly e-journal. And that detail is just foundational to everything we are going to discuss today. How so? Well, the fact that it is open source and living on a platform like GitHub tells you immediately what the lexicographer's intention is here. This isn't just a preservation project, you know. It is an active modernization project. Let me push back on that for a second though. Because when I think of GitHub, I think of software developers. Oh, for sure. I think of Python, C++, A, version control for code. How does a linguistic thesaurus function in an environment built for software engineering? Like are people submitting pull requests for nouns? I mean that is exactly what they are doing. Wait, really? Yeah. And it is a brilliant application of the technology. Think about how a language actually evolves in the real world. Right. It doesn't evolve because a single council of elders sits in a room and dictates it. It evolves through mass collaboration. A teenager coins a term, a community adopts it, it spreads. Exactly. Open source lexicography mimics that organic evolution, but it digitizes it. So by putting the the source on GitHub, Bejendra Thakhar is allowing researchers, native speakers, and linguists to collaboratively update the database in real time. Oh wow. So if a new IT term emerges. Someone can propose a mathilly equivalent, then the community reviews it, and if it works, it gets merged into the main repository. That is so cool. So it's essentially linguistic genetic engineering. That's a great way to put it. You are taking a historic organism, the mathilly language, and giving it a collaborative digital immune system so it can adapt to a new climate. Precisely. And you see the sheer scale of that ambition when you look at the numbers. The numbers are insane. They really are. This project contains a staggering 361,989 total entries. Which is an astronomical figure for a single lexicographical project. Over 260,000 entries. But what I found completely fascinating was the distribution of those entries. With alphabetical spread. The letter S alone has 36,158 entries. It is the largest section of the entire work. Meanwhile, the letter X has exactly 309. Well, you know, the distribution of vocabulary across an alphabet is never an accident. It is structural evidence of how the language operates. What do you mean by that? So in Indo-Aryan languages, and specifically when you're mapping English to languages with deep Sanskrit roots, you often see a massive clustering around certain phones. Okay, like S. Right. The letter S in English handles an enormous amount of heavy lifting with prefixes. Think about words starting with sub, super semi pseudo self. Oh, I see. Yeah. So when you map all of those complex English compound words into Mathilli, it creates the sort of demographic explosion in that specific alphabetical sector. So the structure of the dictionary itself reveals the architectural differences between the two languages. Exactly. But the thesaurus doesn't stop at straightforward translations. It includes 6,612 synonyms, 3,955 antonyms. And this is the part that ties back into the the GitHub aspect we were just talking about exactly 2,204 IT glossary terms. It's huge. Right. Why that specific combination? We have ancient words for agriculture sitting directly adjacent to 2,000 words explaining software architecture. Because releasing this under an open source license and including that massive IT glossary is an act of defiance against linguistic extinction. Wow, defiance. Yeah. I mean, if a language cannot describe the tools of the modern economy, its speakers will just abandon it when they go to work. That makes total sense. Right. If a Mathili speaker has to switch to English every time they turn on a computer, the language slowly becomes relegated to the domestic sphere. It becomes a language you only speak to your grandparents. And eventually it fades out entirely. Exactly. So by meticulously defining the language of computers, software, and the internet in in Methili, the author is proving that Methili is a language of the present and the future. It's a bridge between worlds. It is. But how exactly does this bridge function for the user? Like practically speaking. I think we should look at how the dictionary introduces the most basic building blocks of the English language to the Methili speaker. Oh, we definitely should. Let's start with the very first entry, the letter A. Great. open a standard American or British dictionary, the definition for A is usually entirely functional. Very brief. Yeah, it'll just tell you it's the first letter of the alphabet, it's a vowel, and it's in definite article. Boom, done. But this thesaurus goes on an absolute historical odyssey to explain the letter A. It really does. It traces the origin from Latin back to the Greek alpha, and then all the way back to the Phoenician Aleph. Which is such a profound pedagogical choice by the lexicographer. Why do you think he did it that way? Well, he is not treating the Methodist speaker as just a passive consumer of English vocabulary. By tracing the etymology back to the Phoenicians, he is providing a deep historical rationale for why the dominant global language operates the way it does. And the mechanical details of that history are incredible to read. I mean, the text specifically notes that the original Phoenician LF was not a vowel at all. No, it wasn't. It was a consonant. And it was pronounced from the throat a glottal stop. Yeah. But because the Greeks, when they adopted the alphabet, didn't have vowel marks in their own writing system to represent certain sounds, they essentially repurposed this throat consonant into the vowel alpha. It's fascinating, right? It is. I have to admit, I speak English every single day of my life and I had absolutely no idea that the first letter of my alphabet started as a repurposed throat consonant. It's a wonderful piece of historical engineering, but we have to ask why this specific mechanical explanation is so crucial for a mythology speaker. Okay, why is it? So, Methili historically used the Terhuda script and today predominantly uses Devanagari. Both of these are what linguists call abugidas. Abugidas. Yes, not true alphabets in the Greco-Roman sense. Can you break down the difference for us like how does an abugida work compared to the English alphabet? Certainly. So in the English alphabet, consonants and vowels have equal independent status. You write C, then you write A, then you write T. Right. Abhugita like Devanagari, the consonant is the primary unit and the vowel is treated as a secondary modification. It's a diacritic mark attached to the consonant. Oh, I get it. Right. So if you write a consonant by itself, it automatically implies a default vowel sound. To change the vowel, you add a mark above, below, or next to the consonant. So the fundamental architecture of how you actually build a word is completely different. Exactly. So when a Methilese speaker encounters the English alphabet, the idea of standalone, independent vowel letters can seem completely counterintuitive to their native phonetic logic. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, so by explaining that the Greeks had to invent independent vowels because they lacked the necessary marks, the lexicographer demystifies the English system. Right, it isn't just an arbitrary rule they have to memorize, it's a historical workaround. Precisely. It allows the Mathiliy speaker to understand the structural logic of English rather than just memorizing it blindly. I love that. When the text doesn't even stop at linguistics, it goes on to define A in the context of Western music. Oh yeah. It explicitly states that A is the sixth note in the C major scale, the first note in the A minor scale, and specifically the note used to tune the second string of a violin. What's fascinating here is how the dictionary operates as a cultural encyclopedia. Because South Asian classical music, including traditions familiar in the Mithila region, operates on the Raga system. doesn't use the Western-tempered scale of C major or E minor at all. It relies on a completely different structural philosophy involving microtones or shruti. So translating A minor isn't just translating a sound, it's explaining an entirely foreign mathematical framework for organizing frequencies. Precisely. If you only translate vocabulary, you are just swapping labels. A dog is a dog. Sure. But when you explain the C major scale, or the tuning of a violin, you are giving the reader the conceptual key to understand Western musical theory. But let me challenge this encyclopedic ambition for just a moment. Go for it. Because the entry for A also goes heavily into maritime shipping. Ah, yes. Yeah, it explains that in Lloyd's Registry, the term A1 is used to designate first class ships. Now, Mathila is a region spanning Northern India and Nepal. It is entirely landlocked. Very much so. The nearest ocean is hundreds of miles away. Why on earth does a Mathili farmer or a student need to know the rating system of British maritime insurance? Isn't this just an academic flex by the lexicographer? Well, it might seem like an academic flex if you view the dictionary solely as a localized tool. But remember the mission of this project? It is about equipping the Mathili speaker with global literacy. The British Empire, which was driven by maritime commerce and insured by entities like Lloyds of London, shaped the modern global economy. Right, of course. So the phrase A1 entered the global lexicon to mean first class or excellent precisely because of that shipping registry. Oh, so when someone says this restaurant is A1, they're unknowingly referencing maritime insurance. Exactly. And if you want a Mephili speaker to fully participate in global English literature, commerce and idioms, they really need to understand the historical context of those idioms. That is brilliant. isn't assuming the reader wants to buy a boat, you know? It's assuming the reader wants to decode the linguistic legacy of global trade. Wow. So we see how meticulously this document translates the mechanics and history of the West for the Methillie speaker. But I think the true revelation of this deep dive, the part where we really see the map of the mind, happens in reverse. Oh, absolutely. It happens when we look at how hyperspecific Methillie words map onto English concepts. And to understand that, we really We need to start from the absolute foundation of the society. We need to talk about the agrarian ecosystem. We have to look at the soil, because that is where the culture is literally rooted. Right. And this source material contains a taxonomy of the earth that is so granular, it makes modern English look incredibly blunt. Oh, it really does. Let's look at patty, rice. In English, I might have a vocabulary of three or four types, white rice, brown rice, maybe jasmine or arboreo if I'm cooking something specific. This dictionary lists dozens upon dozens of highly specific types of patty. We see entries for basmati, sati, laumati, amana, anandi. The entries literally read, a type of patty patasa, a type of patty ramkissari, page after page of this. This illustrates a fundamental principle of linguistics, honestly. A culture will inevitably develop a highly differentiated vocabulary for the things that are most crucial to its physical survival and economic stability. Which makes perfect sense. Yeah, in traditional mythola, rice is not a side dish you buy in a plastic bag at the supermarket. It is the economic bedrock. So the different types of patty represent different growing seasons, different drought resistances, different cultural uses. Perhaps one type is strictly for daily consumption while another, like a specific aromatic basmati, is reserved for religious festivals or doweries. And to support that incredible variety of patty, you cannot just have a generic word for dirt. No, you definitely cannot. The text categorizes soil types with a mechanical precision that is frankly astonishing. We see words for soil like kum, chad, matka, leti, satak, dol. Because to an agrarian society, dirt is a useless, flattened concept. It's too vague. Exactly. Soil is a dynamic living matrix. Let's look at the mechanical differences. A soil categorized as matka might refer to a heavy clay rich earth that retains water perfectly for patty cultivation during the monsoon. But if you try to grow certain types of root vegetables in that same soil, they will just rot. Oh, because it holds too much water. Right. Conversely, a lighter, sandier soil, perhaps categorized as ledi or chad, might drain too quickly for rice, but be absolutely perfect for specific cash crops. So lacking the vocabulary to distinguish between matka and ledi isn't just a linguistic gap. It's a recipe for agricultural failure. It is the difference between a harvest and a famine. When a father tells his son to plant a specific crop, he must be able to specify the exact patch of earth by its mechanical properties. The language encodes the agricultural science of the civilization. It's funny, people always bring up that famous and honestly highly debated concept of Eskimos having 50 words for snow. We use it as the ultimate pop culture example of environment shaping language. But we don't even need a pop culture myth here. We have documented reality. This community has dozens of words for soil, dozens of words for rice, and an incredible specificity for grass. The grass taxonomy is amazing. It is. The dictionary lists terms for grass, like muthah, kar, manj, jala, arkat, and sugar cane. Kitar, parrup, uruk. If we connect this to the cognitive framework of the speaker, having a distinct noun for a specific grass, like manj, means you understand its exact utility. Like what you can use it for. Yeah. It's tensile strength. You know if it can be woven into a durable rope if it makes for good roof thatching or if it will burn too quickly in a fire. And modern urban English collapses all of this into just the word grass or weed. Exactly, because we don't interact with the mechanical properties of the plant. We just mow it. We just mow it. Yeah. That's so true. But this dictionary proves that the Mathilli culture reads its environment with the precision of a structural engineer. It really does. And that precision completely extends into the animal kingdom too. The fauna. Because if the soil is the factory floor, the animals are the machinery. The living engines of the agrarian economy. Exactly. Let's look at the fish first. The rivers of Bihar and Nepal are massive ecological arteries, and the vocabulary reflects that. We see Jhinga, Magur, Rohu, Bakva, Kotal. But then it gets descriptive based on utility and threat. There's a specific term for a large freshwater fish, which is bulaki. And there's a distinct term for a snake-like fish. But the animal that dominates this taxonomy, the undeniable center of the agrarian universe is the bullock. Oh, without a doubt. The dictionary lists classifications for cattle that are incredibly specific. Turrac, Langa, Lothra, Chow Lai, Carrick and Jangi. This is where biology and capital investment intersect. How so? While in traditional South Asian agriculture, the bullock is indispensable. It is the tractor, the transport vehicle, the heavy lifter. A pair of healthy bullocks represents a massive percentage of a farming family's net worth. So if you are going to the market to buy or sell one, you don't just say, I'm looking for a cow. Never. You need vocabulary that functions as a highly detailed vehicle identification number. A VIN number for a cow. Exactly. A term like Carrick might indicate a whitish coloring, which could be tied to a specific breed known for heat tolerance. Oh, that's smart. And a term like langod often indicates a physical quirk or a limp, which obviously severely impacts its market value and its ability to pull a plow in a straight line. Right, you need a straight line for a plow. Yeah, so if you are negotiating a dowry or trading assets, you need to communicate the exact physical and temperamental specifications of the animal. It's literally like a modern logistics company having 20 different words for different types of freight trikes. You need to know if you're getting a flatbed or a refrigerated trailer. Exactly. Here's where it gets really interesting for me though. It's not just the big economically vital animals that get this level of linguistic attention. The text captures tiny, hyper specific micro environment. Yes. There is an entry specifically for a bird which lives in a bamboo patch defined as a saras. Just think about the depth of observational patients required for that concept to solidify into a specific noun. It requires generations of people quietly observing the borders of their fields, noting how a specific avian species favors the exact microclimate and insect life of a bamboo patch, and deciding that this ecological relationship is reliable enough to warrant its own identifier. Yes, and it gets even more granular with insects. My absolute favorite part of this dictionary is the distinction it makes between ants and bugs. It defines a poisonous ant, noting it as lohari or subapiri. And right near it, there is an entry for a mini-legged bug which does not bite. That is language functioning as a generational safety manual. Exactly. You teach your child the word for the poisonous ant so they know to step back, but you also explicitly teach them the word for the mini-legged bug that does not bite so they don't panic or waste energy destroying something harmless. It reveals a society that doesn't just look at nature as a green blur of bugs and birds. Right, like we often do today. They see a complex interactive web where every single participant has a known behavior and a specific name. It really highlights a severe psychological boundary in modern urban life. What do you mean? We suffer from a sort of environmental blindness. Because we don't depend on the bamboo patch or the soil type for our immediate survival, our language has pruned all those words away. We just see generic nature. Just trees and dirt. Right. The methylethysaurus shows us a mind that is fully, intimately integrated into its physical surroundings. Which naturally leads us to how this highly observant, highly specialized society categorizes its own people. Because this intense agrarian specialization, the fact that someone has to weave the mung grass and someone else has to evaluate the Langaed Bullock, necessitates a rigidly specialized workforce. It does. And that specialization immediately leads into how they categorize human beings. So let's move from the physical taxonomy of the earth to the tapestry of society. This is where the dictionary transitions from an agricultural manual into a profound sociological document. It maps out the exact nodes of human interaction and social hierarchy. And those nodes are defined with incredibly sharp boundaries. Let's look at occupations. The dictionary doesn't just give us a generic word for someone who cuts grass. It translates a grass cutter, but then specifically delineates a male grass cutter and a female grass cutter. Right. It doesn't just define a shoemaker, it goes out of its way to specifically translate a shoemaker's wife. We see distinct entries for a person involved in business, a street sweeper, and a snake charmer defined as a sapra. What you're seeing here is the linguistic codification of a highly structured communal and historically caste-based society. Right. In these traditional structures, your occupation isn't just what you do from nine to five, It is your identity, your social status, and your lineage. But why the specific focus on a shoemaker's wife or a female grass cutter? Like why does the language need to draw a circle around the spouse of the worker? Well, because in a traditional guild or caste system, the family unit is the economic unit. The shoemaker's wife is not separated from the labor of shoemaking. She likely plays a highly specific, socially recognized role in the preparation of materials or the running of the household economy that supports that trade. makes total sense. By having a distinct word for her, the language acknowledges her specific social coordinate. It shows how deeply intertwined gender roles and occupational roles are. You are never an anonymous individual in the society. You are heavily contextualized by your family's trade and your gender within it. It's a society of extreme visibility. Everyone knows exactly where everyone else fits in the machinery of the village. And it gets even more intricate when we look at social specificities and interpersonal relationships. Oh, definitely. The dictionary provides a translation for a male person fond of woman's company. This is a fascinatingly specific behavioral critique embedded directly into a noun. Right. It's not an adjective. It's a defined type of person. Then there is a distinct word for a boy up to five years old, which is Kumar. It doesn't just say child or toddler. It defines a very specific developmental and ritual window. And then we see words that carry immense, often tragic social weight. There is a specific word for a barren woman. The existence of that specific noun speaks volumes about the psychological framework of a traditional patriarchal society. How so? Well, in a culture where lineage, inheritance, and agrarian labor rely entirely on producing offspring, fertility is the absolute center of a woman's social value. Wow. So if a woman cannot have children, she isn't just experiencing a personal medical issue, she occupies a completely different isolated social category. Precisely. The language creates a boundary around her because the society creates a boundary around her. The vocabulary reflects the immense societal pressure and the strict conditional terms of social acceptance. It really makes you evaluate the words we use for each other today. I want you, the listener, to think about your own social network for a second. If you look at your contacts list on your phone, you probably just see friends and coworkers. Right. Very broad categories. Exactly. But this mathily text captures incredibly fine social gradients. There is a specific word for a formal friend, mit, which is distinct from the concept of a life friend. There is even a highly specific entry for a female friend's son. Which perfectly illustrates the extended nature of kinship networks. In a hyper-communal society, the son of your female friend is not a random acquaintance. He occupies a defined node in your social web. you likely have specific duties toward him during festivals or certain expectations of respect from him. Right. The language maps that relationship so that the social obligations are clear. But every structured society has people who fall outside those boundaries. Oh, sure. And the dictionary captures them too. On the fringes of this highly organized village, we see entries for a naked yogi, a spirit-possessed man, and a swindler. Every culture needs a vocabulary for its anomalies. Anomalies, yeah. The naked yogi and the spirit-possessed man represent the acceptable spiritual fringe individuals who have intentionally discarded the strict social contracts of occupation and family for religious or supernatural pursuits. The swindler represents the unacceptable criminal fringe. But by giving them distinct nouns, the society conceptually contains them. They might be outside the normal rules, but they are still on the map. Exactly. And speaking of that spiritual fringe, the transition from the physical village to the metaphysical world is seamless in this text. The vocabulary of daily life bleeds directly into the vocabulary of myth and spirit. Which brings us to the soul of the Mithila region. We've looked at how they map the earth and the society, but how do they map the intangible? The dictionary captures the celebratory and mythical life of the region with incredible joy. It really does. We see entries for major festivals like Chathi, which honors the sun god, involves highly specific rituals at bodies of water. We see Gadi Pavani, a local festival. I love this one. There is an entry for a festival celebrated with eating sattu called settuyn. Sattu is a roasted gram flour. It's a major nutritional staple in the region, especially during the summer. Oh, interesting. So you have a festival that is literally defined by the communal seasonal consumption of a highly specific local agricultural product. The agriculture and the spirituality are one and the same. That's beautiful. The text also translates a religious fasting performed on every Tuesday. It's not just a generic word for fasting. The specific day of the planetary week is baked into the linguistic practice. And then we move from ritual into pure mythology. The dictionary defines Videa as a mythical king of mythola called Janak, who famously appears in the epic Ramayana. It translates the mythical capital city of Cuba, the god of wealth. and it has an entry for a mythical tree fulfilling all desires, known as the perijet. If we connect this to the bigger picture, this is where we return to the dual purpose of this entire lexicographical project. The preservation and modernization we talked about earlier. Exactly. Language is the primary and often the only vessel for a culture's indigenous worldview. Without the specific nouns for these local myths, the myths evaporate under the pressure of globalization. Oh, yeah. By taking these highly localized concepts, the Parajat tree, King Janak, and defining them clearly in English, Gajendra Thakur is performing a vital act of cultural diplomacy. He's explaining the Mathili soul to the outside world. Yes, but more importantly, he's explaining it to his own people. Think about the psychological impact on a young Mathili student who is learning English. If the only English dictionary available to them uses examples about snowmen and British kings and oak trees. What is the subconscious lesson there? The lesson is that English is a language that cannot accommodate their reality. Exactly. It creates a psychological divide where English belongs to the modern global world and Mathili belongs to the dusty past. It alienates them from their own context. But when their bilingual dictionary uses English to define Jat-Jat-Tin, which the text proudly notes is a methodally folk dance, or when it defines Kamar as a load carrying water for pouring over Shiva, it fundamentally rewires that relationship. That is so powerful. It tells the student, English is merely a tool. You can completely colonize this global language with your own gods, your own dances, and your own backyard. I absolutely love that framing. You don't hide from the global language. You colonize it with your own concepts. You force it to hold the weight of the wish-fulfilling Parjat tree. It validates the local culture on an international stage. It proves that local identity and global participation are not mutually exclusive. And speaking of forcing English to hold weight, that brings us to the final and to my mind the most ambitious aspect of this thesaurus. This is the best part. We've talked extensively about the soil, the bullocks, the social castes, the local festivals. If we stopped here, it'd be very easy for a skeptic to say, okay, this is a wonderful dictionary of rustic traditional village life. It's a great historical artifact. Right, just box it into the rustic category. But the lexicographer aggressively rejects being boxed into that category. He bridges the abstract. He tackles highly complex Western academic and legal frameworks. This is the intellectual apex of the project. The text includes incredibly precise, mafilli definitions for complex Latin-derived English terminology. Let's look at philosophy. The dictionary takes on the terms a priori and a posteriori. These are not light concepts. These are the absolute bedrock of Western epistemology, heavily associated with the philosopher Emmanuel Kant and the Enlightenment. Right, and the text doesn't flinch. It defines a priori perfectly as knowledge prior to experience, deductive reasoning. Defines a posteriori as empirical knowledge derived from experience and observation, reasoning from facts to general principles. To see these dense, Latin-based philosophical mechanisms translated into the language of the mythola agrarian ecosystem is stunning. it requires immense linguistic agility. The lexicographer has to find or construct Masseille phrasing that accurately conveys the logical mechanism of deductive versus inductive reasoning. He's actively stretching the language to hold the weight of Western epistemological debate. He's the same thing for Western law too. There's an entry for the legal term, Amensa et Thuro. Oh wow. Yeah, for those who aren't lawyers, this is a Latin phrase meaning from table and bed. The dictionary defines it as a legal separation allowing a husband and wife to live apart without dissolving the marriage bond itself. And jumping over to the arts, it defines a capella as church-style singing without instrumental accompaniment. Which again requires explaining the context of Western ecclesiastical choir traditions to a culture rooted in the raga system and Hindu devotional music. Okay, let me play Divil's advocate again, because this is crucial. Why is this necessary? We just established that the that the Methilic culture has a hyper-specific, incredibly rich vocabulary for its own legal, social, and spiritual life. Why spend the time and linguistic energy translating 18th century Western legal jargon or Kantian philosophy into a language primarily spoken by millions of people in Bihar and Nepal? What is the lexicographer actually proving by putting a priori right next to the word for a bamboo basket for keeping fish? He is attacking the most dangerous prejudice in modern linguistics. Which is? It is a prejudice often internalized by the speakers of minority languages themselves. The idea that their native tongue isn't smart enough for the modern world. Oh, wow. Many speakers of regional languages assume that their mother tongue is perfectly fine for talking about farming or cooking or family matters, but they believe that if they wanna discuss quantum physics or high level jurisprudence or Contine philosophy, they must switch to English or Hindi. They accept a glass ceiling on their own language. Exactly. They accept that their language is a relic of the domestic sphere. By painstakingly translating the mechanics of abstract logic and highly specific Western legal constructs, Kajendro Thakur shatters that glass ceiling. He just breaks it completely. He is proving, structurally, that Methili is a robust, dynamic, and fully capable intellectual instrument. It doesn't have to relegate itself to the fields and the festivals. It is perfectly capable of sitting in the Supreme Court or the University Lecture Hall, or the software development firm, it can hold any concept the human mind can generate. So what does this all mean for us? When we take a step back from the granular details, from the 360,000 entries, the throw consonant origins of the letter A, the mechanical differences in the clay soil, the specific bird in the bamboo patch, and the translation of Western epistemology, what is the ultimate takeaway from reading a dictionary as a map? The takeaway is that true preservation is not about trapping a culture in amber. A dictionary like this is a living, breathing blueprint of a civilization. I think this deep dive proves that a dictionary is never just a neutral list of definitions. It is a mirror. Yeah, it really is. It reflects the deep agrarian past of the Mephili people. The soil, the patty, the heavy capital investment of the bullocks that built their physical world. It reflects the intricate, sometimes harsh realities of their present, the rigid social structures, the deeply observed ecosystem, the communal festivals, and through the 2200 IT terms and the philosophical integration on a GitHub repository, it fiercely claims its right to the future. It is a document that says, we observe this earth, we built the society, and we possess the vocabulary to go wherever human thought goes next. It is an absolute triumph of cultural resilience. I want to thank you the listener for coming along on this exploration with us today. It takes a certain kind of intellectual curiosity to look past the surface of a 400-page linguistic database and see the living, breathing civilization humming underneath it. But that is exactly what we've uncovered together. We've traversed the cognitive map of the Macyly Mind. It has been a genuinely fascinating structural journey. But before we sign off, we want to leave you with a final, provocative thought. Something to mull over as you go about your week, using your own words in your own environment. We've spent this time analyzing how a culture's hyper-specific vocabulary reveals exactly what they depend on, what they observe, and how they structure their reality. The farmer has dozens of words for soil because their survival requires that mechanical knowledge. So here is the question for you. Imagine lexicographers a hundred years from now uncovering a comprehensive dictionary of your specific, personal vocabulary. Oh, that's a scary thought. If they mapped out the highly specialized jargon you use at your workplace, the specific acronyms you use for your screen time and digital habits, the hyper-specific terms you use for your hobbies, what would they conclude about the mechanics of your survival? What would your personal dictionary say about what you worship, what you fear, and what you value most? Would they find a vocabulary deeply integrated with the physical world around you, or just 50 different words for digital distraction and corporate anxiety? It's a map of your mind. What does your map look like? Thank you so much for joining us on this deep dive into the hidden frameworks of language. Stay curious, keep questioning the tools you use to describe the world, and we will catch you on the next one.

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