01-11-2008, 08:19 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In his assessment, the reason of downfall of not only Hindi but all other Indic languages too, is that the language of leadership became English. Leadership not only political, but also economical and cultural. A Indic educated student is hugely disadvanged when faced with English-medeum student. S parents now place children in English medeum only. Result, declined quality of Indic schools. That is the reason no 1 for decline of Hindi/Indic.
He said that in the people in that last 30 years have been conditioned to think in English and therefore the elite minds and thinkers are only able to produce a meaningful intellectual debate/discourse in English. Such thinkers writing, reading and responding in Hindi and most other Indic languages is limited now. (He said Tamil, Kannada, Marathi still have that status and capability in their respective state). That is second reason and effect of the first. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That is basically the reason, there maybe some regional differences (example due to the high linguistic pride in TN at least tall he politicians tend to speak good Tamizh, in AP even that is lacking and they speak Tenglish with some exceptions like venkaiah naidu).
The only way out i can think of for now is that in classes for Indian languages the teachers emphasise speaking proper Hindi/Telugu etc without mixing English and that a special emphasis be placed on vocabulary (eg: make the kids learn that school is badi not school in Telugu) so that when they speak the language they have enough basic vocabulary. I come to this conclusion from personal experience, while I know how to read, write and speak Telugu now, my spoken Telugu until last year used to be very anglicised even though I knew the vocabulary well since I knew literary Telugu, this was never deliberate but as a result of conditioning from childhood onwards, no one in the city said badi for school, only my grandparents in the village did, to many speaking proper Telugu is a sign of "backwardness". To control this Hindi etc teachers have to emphasise in the classroom that while learning English (or any other language) is good, its not good to mix the two so that even basic Hindi vocabulary vanishes into thin air.
Another big reason is the so called movie stars, they make their movies in our languages supposedly but when interviewed are almost always seen talking in a highly anglicised language or in english outright (this is especially true of Hindi cinema), millions of fools idolise these morons and seek to emulate them and we can see the effects.
He said that in the people in that last 30 years have been conditioned to think in English and therefore the elite minds and thinkers are only able to produce a meaningful intellectual debate/discourse in English. Such thinkers writing, reading and responding in Hindi and most other Indic languages is limited now. (He said Tamil, Kannada, Marathi still have that status and capability in their respective state). That is second reason and effect of the first. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That is basically the reason, there maybe some regional differences (example due to the high linguistic pride in TN at least tall he politicians tend to speak good Tamizh, in AP even that is lacking and they speak Tenglish with some exceptions like venkaiah naidu).
The only way out i can think of for now is that in classes for Indian languages the teachers emphasise speaking proper Hindi/Telugu etc without mixing English and that a special emphasis be placed on vocabulary (eg: make the kids learn that school is badi not school in Telugu) so that when they speak the language they have enough basic vocabulary. I come to this conclusion from personal experience, while I know how to read, write and speak Telugu now, my spoken Telugu until last year used to be very anglicised even though I knew the vocabulary well since I knew literary Telugu, this was never deliberate but as a result of conditioning from childhood onwards, no one in the city said badi for school, only my grandparents in the village did, to many speaking proper Telugu is a sign of "backwardness". To control this Hindi etc teachers have to emphasise in the classroom that while learning English (or any other language) is good, its not good to mix the two so that even basic Hindi vocabulary vanishes into thin air.
Another big reason is the so called movie stars, they make their movies in our languages supposedly but when interviewed are almost always seen talking in a highly anglicised language or in english outright (this is especially true of Hindi cinema), millions of fools idolise these morons and seek to emulate them and we can see the effects.