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Decline of language
by Suraj Singh on Jun 01, 2008 11:44 AM   Permalink | Hide replies

This is why Karl Kraus, the founder of modern Sprachkritik, or “criticism of language,” was so hard on the Viennese press of the 1920s and 1930s. He is alleged to have said that “if those who are obliged to look after commas had made sure they are always in the right place,” the Japanese would not have set Shanghai on fire. I’m not sure I’d go that far, but the New York Times article speaks for itself. People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
The same goes for nations in general. “Decline of language is the decline of the life of the people who use it.”

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by sunder on Jun 01, 2008 11:57 AM   Permalink
y r u talkin irrelevant tropics in this page other than ipl.is it bcos nobody can argue with u

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by Suraj Singh on Jun 01, 2008 12:01 PM   Permalink
Then ignore my posts. I think sir you have a low IQ.

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by Suraj Singh on Jun 01, 2008 12:02 PM   Permalink
Also stop using SMS language.

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by Maheswari on Jun 01, 2008 12:21 PM   Permalink
after all english is a foreighner's language. We have to be ashamed of only when we make mistakes in our mother tongue. We are not born as englishmen. Language is to convey a message to other person. If the other person understands it in the sense it is o.k. whether it is sms or yms or tms. O.K.?

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by Suraj Singh on Jun 01, 2008 12:32 PM   Permalink
Then why comment on an English game called cricket?

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by choclate on Jun 01, 2008 12:36 PM   Permalink
hahahahah..... good one

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by Maheswari on Jun 01, 2008 11:50 AM   Permalink
o.k. what to do now ?

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by Suraj Singh on Jun 01, 2008 11:55 AM   Permalink
See the posts. They ae filled with errors.
Let us stake a stand to improve ourselves.

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by All Right on Jun 01, 2008 12:01 PM   Permalink
You mean let us take a stand on this issue..
:-)
Why introducing errors in a comment that is supposed to alert others of not making errors?.. :-)

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by Suraj Singh on Jun 01, 2008 12:03 PM   Permalink
This SMS lingo will destroy our country.

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by Suraj Singh on Jun 01, 2008 12:00 PM   Permalink
Eevn I am amking errors. Birds of a feather....

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