Re: 'dyeus' chronology

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 66886
Date: 2010-11-14

At 6:48:19 PM on Saturday, November 13, 2010, Francesco
Brighenti wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "shivkhokra"
> <shivkhokra@...> wrote:

[...]

>> We know you are Sanskrit challenged.

> What does this sentence mean?

He's saying that your knowledge of Sanskrit is poor.

> Is it English?

It incorporates a popular modern idiom: 'X challenged' means
'deficient in X'. Being only 1.61 m, I could say jocularly
that I'm 'height challenged'.

Brian