Balinese language

Well, first I'll tell you, I understand what they're talking about being below the seas and above, and this is repeated in mythology.

I don't care if it's, you know, Japanese or Chinese or Hindu or Balinese.

It's repeated all over the world.

So if you think about the Greek myths, which are probably the most well-known in Western culture, you know, you have Zeus, who is in the heavens on Mount Olympus, but you have his brother, Poseidon, who rules the sea.

The draftsmen had spent hours preparing the surfaces of paper, straining ink through filters, honing drawing pens with emery and polishing them with rouge, drawing practice lines and scrutinizing them with powerful bench microscopes.

They did Balinese finger exercises, Chinese body coordination exercises, Hindu breathing exercises, and Tibetan spiritual calisthenics to dispel their incipient shakes.

When the great moment came, a solemn little group of executives entered the drafting room and stood about in attitudes of grave ceremonial courtesy.

The draftsmen then drew their lines.

The draftsmen had spent hours preparing the surfaces of paper, straining ink through filters, honing drawing pens with emery and polishing them with rouge, drawing practice lines and scrutinizing them with powerful bench microscopes.

They did Balinese finger exercises, Chinese body coordination exercises, Hindu breathing exercises, and Tibetan spiritual calisthenics to dispel their incipient shakes.

When the great moment came, a solemn little group of executives entered the drafting room and stood about in attitudes of grave ceremonial courtesy.

The draftsmen then drew their lines.

And in focusing on these relatively early periods, I'm primarily interested in using source materials that come from the region itself and written in the vernacular or the local languages of the region.

So many of the sources I work with, including those that I use for the book, are texts written in old Javanese, Malay, Balinese, Sundanese, and those kinds of languages are the primary focus of my study.

Tell me, how do you wrap your head around all these different languages? How many of these different languages can you, uh, read, speak, understand?

It takes some time to learn the languages.

I m- primarily work with old Javanese, Malay, and Balinese.

They're the ones that I use most frequently.

I occasionally make use of Sanskrit materials as well, uh, Sundanese materials.

We can talk about what the texts say and why their contents mean that they are valuable historically, valuable culturally, et cetera.

I live in Bali.

I have a hairdresser here who has a pretty good English, but I had a specific, I put in what I wanted done to my hair into chat GP terms and give me the Balinese translation so I could absolutely be clear.

And she read it, she went, oh, lovely lady.

And I got what I wanted.

The draftsmen had spent hours preparing the surfaces of paper, straining ink through filters, honing drawing pens with emery and polishing them with rouge, drawing practice lines and scrutinizing them with powerful bench microscopes.

They did Balinese finger exercises, Chinese body coordination exercises, Hindu breathing exercises, and Tibetan spiritual calisthenics to dispel their incipient shakes.

When the great moment came, a solemn little group of executives entered the drafting room and stood about in attitudes of grave ceremonial courtesy.

The draftsmen then drew their lines.

The draftsmen had spent hours preparing the surfaces of paper, straining ink through filters, honing drawing pens with emery and polishing them with rouge, drawing practice lines and scrutinizing them with powerful bench microscopes.

They did Balinese finger exercises, Chinese body coordination exercises, Hindu breathing exercises, and Tibetan spiritual calisthenics to dispel their incipient shakes.

When the great moment came, a solemn little group of executives entered the drafting room and stood about in attitudes of grave ceremonial courtesy.

The draftsmen then drew their lines.