06-23-2007, 08:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2007, 08:33 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
If neologisms have to attain popularity then they have to reach the masses, the primary responsibility for this lies with the tv channels, newspapers and other media, at present none of them care although they market themselves as Telugu channel, Tamil newspaper etc.
Nextly each language needs something similar to "Academie Francaise" which will regulate the language and popularise new terms, again the biggest ruckus against this will no doubt be from the "secularists" who will cry "Hindu fascism" the movement such a proposal is mooted, they will ofcourse claim that our languages are being enriched (funny how the French and many others don't seem to think so about English domination) even as basic vocabulary (such as mom and dad) is lost.
At present only Hindi seems to have it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Hindi_Directorate
But pretty ineffective I would say going by the Hinglish in cities (probably because the media never bothers with it).
Nextly each language needs something similar to "Academie Francaise" which will regulate the language and popularise new terms, again the biggest ruckus against this will no doubt be from the "secularists" who will cry "Hindu fascism" the movement such a proposal is mooted, they will ofcourse claim that our languages are being enriched (funny how the French and many others don't seem to think so about English domination) even as basic vocabulary (such as mom and dad) is lost.
At present only Hindi seems to have it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Hindi_Directorate
But pretty ineffective I would say going by the Hinglish in cities (probably because the media never bothers with it).