Maharani Jind Kaur's Gutka in British Library

[dallysingh101]

2 hours ago, puzzled said:

Yh its larivaar  that's how old sikhs used to write. Old Guru Granth Sahibs were written like that. 

I think it was written like that so people who were against sikhi and wanted to change the gurus word it became impossible for them to do that.  

Yep, and we've got over a crucial period now, where those attempts to subvert have been successfully thwarted.

[GurjantGnostic]

36 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

Whats a 'md5 checksum'???

I've never been a fan of transliterations myself. Do you think that they help you with pronunciation? 

It's like a file fingerprint to authinticate if a file is the original without tampering. 

Being ignorant of Punjabi I feel the transliterations help with being able to learn the Grumukhi. It's like a rosetta stone almost. 

[GurjantGnostic]

Thinking on it, the more languages were included with a tansliteration translation of their own, you could not only learn Gurmukhi but the other languages like a rosetta stone while learning Gurbani. 

[GurjantGnostic]

If you knew an Ang in 7 languages you'd actually know a certain and appreciable amount of grammar and syntax of all 7 languages. And the most important vocab. That pertaining to Gurbani. 

[dallysingh101]

18 minutes ago, GurjantGnostic said:

If you knew an Ang in 7 languages you'd actually know a certain and appreciable amount of grammar and syntax of all 7 languages. And the most important vocab. That pertaining to Gurbani. 

Thing with Gurmukhi (compared to English/Roman) is that it has strict grapheme (the visual symbol or letter) and phoneme (the sound associated with that letter/symbol) mapping. That's why I think Gurmukhi can be easier because you can generally only pronounce a word one way.  

[GurjantGnostic]

Does the Guri writing have a symbol for every english sound and then some?

[Guest]

Did no one else noticed how sukhmani saahib in her pothi, in first ashtapadi  has "aad gurdeve namah" instead of "aad gureh nameh" as in modern copies

[Guest]

9 hours ago, dallysingh101 said:

Whats a 'md5 checksum'???

I've never been a fan of transliterations myself. Do you think that they help you with pronunciation? 

No that's just for encryption,for security over internet. 

[GurjantGnostic]

58 minutes ago, AjeetSingh2019 said:

No that's just for encryption,for security over internet. 

Oh okay bro. Lol. 

[GurjantGnostic]

The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used hash function producing a 128-bithash value. Although MD5 was initially designed to be used as a cryptographic hash function, it has been found to suffer from extensive vulnerabilities. It can still be used as a checksum to verify data integrity