A little respect please!

 

Murderer! Butcher! Killer! Traitor!

Brilliant labels aren’t they? Now I am not a violent person so please do not be alarmed! These are the exact words that come to my mind when someone is fantastically attacking the English language, cutting it into a million shreds and then getting away with it.

Language is something that we humans created out of necessity. If not for language then how in the world are we supposed to communicate??? If for instance, there was no language that existed, what then? Would we still be savages tearing each other up in order to survive? And all because of no means of communication? Can’t it be inferred that language is a necessity? If that is so, then WHY can we not respect it?

We humans tend to take most things that come to us naturally for granted. Language included. Maybe that is why people do not make sense of what they are saying and get away with it.

English – a universal language. Everyone recognizes it. Most of us speak it. Then why can we not make a little more effort and try and speak or write it well? It is such a beautiful language. I just took English as an example here. Any language is beautiful if you try and make an effort to speak it a little more clearly!

Language is a part of the human heritage. It was in its purest form when it first came into being. Now it has just mutated into several unrecognizable, crude forms that is a little harsh on the ears. A little disheartening to those who have a passion towards language I must say.

The printed/spoken word is a very powerful thing. It has the strength to move nations. And all because of the usage of the language. Many a nation has risen and fallen due to the mightiness of the words. Many a hero has walked to victory with the help of words that reach into the hearts of those around. These men and women have had nothing but the power of the language that they spoke to reach their goal. It is by the way they spoke that they attracted attention towards them and did what they had to do.

We do know all of this. That is the irony of the whole thing. Yet we tend to treat language as something that is not much importance and riddled with dirt. Why? Can a little effort go a long way in interesting us in cleaning up our language? If anyone has noticed, clean language automatically leads to a clean mind. No need for self-help books when such a little thing can be done all by ourselves!

I know this article got a little preachy and long. But I needed to get it all out! Cannot bring it out in installments you see! Just let us not forget that language is something that we use every moment of our waking life and most times even in our dreams. A tweak here and a tweak there in what and how we speak can go a long, long way! We created words ourselves… so let us also earn the credit for using it!

A little respect please!

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