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आम आदमी चला गया

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While discussing the story of "The jungle book", we came across an incident of Chile - Kite bird. And I said English is a tough language. Kite is a bird as well as a flying object. A "bat" again is a bird and a playing object. And to my surprise you showed me this part in your homework. You said when English and Hindi mix, it is even more confusing for me. See this singular - plural combo: Mango - आम Mangoes - आदमी चला गया आम आदमी चला गया?  And we bursted out laughing :-D . Well, this is a beauty of language. When you learn more, you can interpret more and understand more.  'अज' - in Sanskrit means a goat.  'अज' - in Sanskrit also means grains which are dried for couple of years and can no longer be sprouted.  It was written to sacrifice अज in हवन. Imagine the damage.  Every language has its own beauty. It is when we try to understand things on our own without merely relying on somebody's interpretation, we find a world full of surpri