The ideas expressed here belong to Saurabh, my friend. Though I do not endorse it, I think it is worth thinking about. He will never take the effort to put it in black and white, so I am doing it for him.
Do you accuse the hammer, if working somnambulistically you hit it on your hand?
You do not know how to use a guitar and create the music, and then is it the guitar responsible for the cacophony when it could have created music?
The premise is valid, but the conclusion is not.
Yes, we have not used language well. Language is just a tool, how can we blame the tool for our own shortcomings.
Language has evolved in all these years of existence of life. It has grown and so have we. So many generations have contributed to its growth that now it has grown beyond the capacity of an individual to comprehend its enormity.
Do you think that there is not a word, a phrase, a sentence which can express the way you feel?
There always is.
Only you don’t happen to know it.
We have had great writers, great literary figures but none of them have been able to capture all the human emotions with equal panache.
Some had their trade limited to humor, some to romance, so to tragedy. But none, NONE have been able to express it all.
One individual’s life is not long enough to feel it all, leave aside expressing it, and then you have your limited vocabulary to take care of. If you try, you will get a word. The vastness of the language rivals that of the oceans. You need to know how to dive and get the pearl.
The inability to express is a challenge to you, conquer it. It has never been the nature of the man to succumb. And that to an inanimate thing like the language, what a joke!
Take it on yourself, to win it over, and then expand it. Instead of cribbing about its short comings, make it your slave.
And leave the legacy behind.
Monday, February 27, 2006
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If this was a post by an_empty_mind donno what it wud hav been if posted by a mind with sm contents !!
ok ok i kno u didnt like d joke but what 2 do this is what i m good at ;-)
This Age apparently is the age of Communication. communication is faster, cheaper, terse etc. but is it getting BETTER? probably in an attempt to make it better, India has jumped onto the bandwagon of the Asian countries trying SO hard to speak the so called politically, socially, racially (and god knows what 'ly') correct English. I have a rather elderly friend who feels that India will never be 'civized' enuff for the global world.
what do you feel? you can simply 'teach' people how to be 'proper' and 'correct' all the time and that too in a language that isn't their first language?
why make such a big fuss? i mean had people been punished for fucking up grammar, good old Bard Shakespeare would be the first offender in the eyes of the Linguistic Law!!!! In one of the many instances wherein Shakespeare 'twists' (i say 'moulds') the language to suit his purpose, he actually uses 'not to trust' as an ADJECTIVE! language merely provides you the MEANS to express yourself; it need not be the END itself! i mean we don't need to learn the grammar of our mothertongue, we just seem to GET it! why can't we similarly decide how to speak in any god damn language under the sun? i mean if i type 'enuff' and the reader UNDERSTANDS that i mean 'enough', the purpose of communication is served right?
why then all that fuss about communication skills and conversational skills? i think we have the mightiest instrument to communicate a lot of things, our eyes! and to a large extent, a lot of conversation is FUTILE!!!
these my friend, need not be my views forever but then this is what i felt when i read your 'outpouring' if i may say so.
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