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No systemic study has been done about the impact of English language on Bhartiya languages, but one thing is sure that English language has slowed down the growth of all Bhartiya languages considerably.
Hindi, the national language of Bharat has not taken its due place, even after 55 years of independence. Similar is the fate of all the other Bhartiya languages. If Hindi, the national language of Bharat cannot get its due place, then how can other languages could prosper in presence of English? The present situation is if you say hello to English, then it becomes goodbye to other languages. For preserving and prosperity of Bhartiya languages, time has come that we should say hello to Bhartiya languages and goodbye to English and to the bureaucracy who runs the country with English.
The linguists who met at Laval University hope to establish research map for tracking the threatened languages and to introduce the idea of protective protocols much like those for natural resources and the environment. Some non-Hindi speaking people, want to retain English language for ever in Bharat. They should also try to establish a research map about the effect of English on the Bhartiya languages and its prosperity and also those dialects who have become extinct in Bharat due to English.
In Bharat, the English language and English Press is very influential. All important work is conducted in English. The attraction for English make people forget some principles like swadeshi, self reliance and self respect. It also leads to a love for foreign goods and culture, which turn people anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu and creates traitors for Hindu culture and Hindu civilization. The editorial of English daily Ananda Bazar Patrika of Calcutta, dated October 26, 1994 provides the treacherous nature of English press to Hindu causes. "...Narasimha Rao should have taken advantage of the situation, and armed with the weapon of secularism, should have waged a war against Hindutva.." The editorial concluded with the advice to the Rao Government to "go ahead to achieve the aim of erecting the mosque as promised and not to bother about the temple." Similar was the comments of most of the pseudo-secular English press of Bharat.
Looking at these types of editorials, Bharat does not need English press. All English press, particularly pseudo-secular English press of Bharat must be destroyed from Bharat.
Now-a-days it has become a trend and fashion to use English,Urdu,Persian and Arabic words in Hindi magazines, newspapers, radio programmes over All India Radio and television and other media, in the name of simplifying and cosmopolitan Hindi. This hybrid language does not seem to be genuine, and does not make Hindi pure and simple instead make Hindi difficult to understand. One fails to understands why all the secularists are after simplifying Hindi by forcing words from foreign languages into Hindi, why don't they try to simplify Urdu or English by introducing more prevalent Hindi words in those languages. If there is any need of simplifying Hindi, why can't they adopt words from Sanskrit language.
The other languages also face similar dilemma. It is interesting to see how other languages maintain the purity of their language and protect it from the undesirable effect of English and Urdu words. France's old and losing battle against the English language has moved into a new and touchy phase now that the government has presented a draft law to put up a barrier against further foreign incursions. If the cultural ministry has its way, phrases such as le hit parade will soon be against the law. The law, which faced a vote in the National Assembly in spring of 1994, banned foreign words from virtually all business and government communications, radio and television broadcasts, public announcements and advertising messages whenever a "suitable local equivalent" word exists in French.
In Bharat, to maintain the purity of Hindi language which is based on Sanskrit and Hindu culture, some such drastic measures will have to be taken. English is considered a world language even then people talk about the rules for proper English writing. Prescriptivists talk about how language should be used - they insist that "imply" and "infer" mean different things and so should not be interchanged - where as descriptivists discuss how language is used - people often use "infer" to mean "imply", so it therefore mean the same thing. Mark Halpern, in one of its Winter issue of the American Scholar, attacks the foundation of the descriptive's arguments.
"Language is not living, not growing and not a thing; it is a vast system of social habits and conventions, inherited from our forebears, and showing every sign of being an artifact rather than organic growth", he writes. Languages does not have a life of its own: people control how it changes, and therefore should be smart, about how they change it"
Bhartiya people are not smart enough as they are changing Hindi by putting filth, in the form of English and Urdu words, in it. The mentally slave elite and media people of Bharat are perpetuating mental slavery amongst Bhartiya masses by maintaing English in Bharat.
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A lovely sentiment. Now someone explain to me why it was written in English.
While I understand a desire to protect one's native culture I think this type of attitude does more harm than good. At the moment, English is the second most widely spoke language in the world and if Bharat wants to remain a "modern" country it might to well to encourage a multilinguist environment instead of rejecting English for the "Sanskrit language".
No systemic study has been done about the impact of English language on Bhartiya languages, but one thing is sure that English language has slowed down the growth of all Bhartiya languages considerably.
Hindi, the national language of Bharat has not taken its due place, even after 55 years of independence. Similar is the fate of all the other Bhartiya languages. If Hindi, the national language of Bharat cannot get its due place, then how can other languages could prosper in presence of English? The present situation is if you say hello to English, then it becomes goodbye to other languages. For preserving and prosperity of Bhartiya languages, time has come that we should say hello to Bhartiya languages and goodbye to English and to the bureaucracy who runs the country with English.
The linguists who met at Laval University hope to establish research map for tracking the threatened languages and to introduce the idea of protective protocols much like those for natural resources and the environment. Some non-Hindi speaking people, want to retain English language for ever in Bharat. They should also try to establish a research map about the effect of English on the Bhartiya languages and its prosperity and also those dialects who have become extinct in Bharat due to English.
In Bharat, the English language and English Press is very influential. All important work is conducted in English. The attraction for English make people forget some principles like swadeshi, self reliance and self respect. It also leads to a love for foreign goods and culture, which turn people anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu and creates traitors for Hindu culture and Hindu civilization. The editorial of English daily Ananda Bazar Patrika of Calcutta, dated October 26, 1994 provides the treacherous nature of English press to Hindu causes. "...Narasimha Rao should have taken advantage of the situation, and armed with the weapon of secularism, should have waged a war against Hindutva.." The editorial concluded with the advice to the Rao Government to "go ahead to achieve the aim of erecting the mosque as promised and not to bother about the temple." Similar was the comments of most of the pseudo-secular English press of Bharat.
Looking at these types of editorials, Bharat does not need English press. All English press, particularly pseudo-secular English press of Bharat must be destroyed from Bharat.
Now-a-days it has become a trend and fashion to use English,Urdu,Persian and Arabic words in Hindi magazines, newspapers, radio programmes over All India Radio and television and other media, in the name of simplifying and cosmopolitan Hindi. This hybrid language does not seem to be genuine, and does not make Hindi pure and simple instead make Hindi difficult to understand. One fails to understands why all the secularists are after simplifying Hindi by forcing words from foreign languages into Hindi, why don't they try to simplify Urdu or English by introducing more prevalent Hindi words in those languages. If there is any need of simplifying Hindi, why can't they adopt words from Sanskrit language.
The other languages also face similar dilemma. It is interesting to see how other languages maintain the purity of their language and protect it from the undesirable effect of English and Urdu words. France's old and losing battle against the English language has moved into a new and touchy phase now that the government has presented a draft law to put up a barrier against further foreign incursions. If the cultural ministry has its way, phrases such as le hit parade will soon be against the law. The law, which faced a vote in the National Assembly in spring of 1994, banned foreign words from virtually all business and government communications, radio and television broadcasts, public announcements and advertising messages whenever a "suitable local equivalent" word exists in French.
In Bharat, to maintain the purity of Hindi language which is based on Sanskrit and Hindu culture, some such drastic measures will have to be taken. English is considered a world language even then people talk about the rules for proper English writing. Prescriptivists talk about how language should be used - they insist that "imply" and "infer" mean different things and so should not be interchanged - where as descriptivists discuss how language is used - people often use "infer" to mean "imply", so it therefore mean the same thing. Mark Halpern, in one of its Winter issue of the American Scholar, attacks the foundation of the descriptive's arguments.
"Language is not living, not growing and not a thing; it is a vast system of social habits and conventions, inherited from our forebears, and showing every sign of being an artifact rather than organic growth", he writes. Languages does not have a life of its own: people control how it changes, and therefore should be smart, about how they change it"
Bhartiya people are not smart enough as they are changing Hindi by putting filth, in the form of English and Urdu words, in it. The mentally slave elite and media people of Bharat are perpetuating mental slavery amongst Bhartiya masses by maintaing English in Bharat.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A lovely sentiment. Now someone explain to me why it was written in English.
While I understand a desire to protect one's native culture I think this type of attitude does more harm than good. At the moment, English is the second most widely spoke language in the world and if Bharat wants to remain a "modern" country it might to well to encourage a multilinguist environment instead of rejecting English for the "Sanskrit language".
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