Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by danans on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:46AM
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"The Notion of Trolling in Ancient Indian Literature" may have been a better choice of title. Of course it was in Sanskrit, because that was the literary language of the time.
But this is probably named this way because the names of Ancient Indian works of literature, especially obscure ones like Nyaya Sutra, are not well known in the west, whereas "Sanskrit" almost immediately contextualizes the post to Ancient South Asia for most readers, even though the language in which it is composed is a bit beside the point, which is that an ancient society sort of identified "trolling".
Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by ensconced on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:41PM
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Telugu too! It's called "vitanDa vaadam"
Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by ultrasounder on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:54PM
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Which is a direct translation of the same word from Sanskrit which carries the same meaning. Hardly surprising as Telugu is at lest 50% Sanskrit
Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by m33k44 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @10:42AM
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Indian languages are heavily influenced by Samskrutam and have borrowed words from the language. So the word vitanDa in Kannada is borrowed from Samskrut language.
Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by QuercusMax on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:22AM
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What does vitanDa mean in Kannada? Google hasn't been much help.
Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by nitheshm on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:37AM
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In Telugu, I use vitanda vadam to mean something closer to a rhetorical fallacy than deliberate dishonesty.
Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by grey-sunshine on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:14PM
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In Tamil it means speech that leads no where. In the sense of debating but not useful.
This article is as much about the etymology of a modern term as about a concept from Sanskrit philosophical texts.