{"id":1476,"date":"2024-11-13T14:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2024-11-16T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:01:43","slug":"the-answers-to-my-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/2024\/11\/13\/the-answers-to-my-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Answers to My Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archana (Y10) has translated her award winning poem into Tamil.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In English:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The answers to my questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked ammamma if I could stay up watching television dramas with her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she said yes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked ammamma if I could gobble the last slice of cake down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she said why not<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked ammamma if she would retell the stories of her at the beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she said I would love too,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said storytelling is her form of teaching<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked ammamma if she would take me shopping ; just the two of us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said who else would I take<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She finds dress shopping a form of art hunting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she said you don&#8217;t need to ask me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My answer is already yes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I said&nbsp; will it always be a yes, ammamma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she said &#8216;kunju&#8217; of course it is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But ammamma how come when I asked if you&#8217;d stay forever, you stayed silent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she said nothing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But with a smile of knowingness and nostalgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know it will be a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, no, no<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In Tamil:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>\u0b95\u0bc7\u0bb3\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0ba9<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbf \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0b95\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bca\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc7 \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bbe \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bc7\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b86\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bcd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc7\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc0\u0bb4\u0bc7 \u0b87\u0bb1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bbe \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bc7\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0b8f\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc7\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bcd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0b85\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0b9f\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0b9f\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b95\u0ba4\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bc8 \u0bae\u0bc0\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbe \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bc7\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0bae\u0bc7\u0bb2\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bca\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bbe\u0bb3\u0bcd,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0b95\u0ba4\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bca\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0ba9\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0bb5\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0bb7\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbf\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb4\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0b9a\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbe \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc7\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc7\u0ba9\u0bcd ; 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In English: The answers to my questions I asked ammamma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,68,67],"tags":[20,62],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-modern-foreign-languages","category-the-arts","tag-poem","tag-tamil","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}