Anything Under the Sun!!!

Language is a method of verbal communication. The communication method used by animals cannot be called language as they do not follow a systematic verbal method. Language has evolved along with time especially the second most widely spoken language of the world-English and language is what I want to discuss about here.

English has accepted many new words from different languages which have gradually become part and parcel of the language. Its ever-evolving and continuously changing, this continual process has lead to the wide vocabulary of English. When English language has gradually accepted these changes then how can certain people call a certain form of English ‘pure’ or ‘correct’? No form of language is ‘pure’ or ‘impure’; every form is just a dialect of the language. According to the modern linguists, American, British, Australian or even Indian English is merely a dialect of the English language. Though the pronunciation of the people of South England is considered to be the standard for pronunciation of English words in a certain widely used pronunciation dictionary, it can never be called the most ‘pure’ form of English.

Similarly, there has been a lot of debate about Indian languages too. Certain variation in a language makes the language ‘impure’ according to certain scholars. Language is prone to changes and variations. Every Indian language has undergone a lot of changes. Some people consider the Hindi spoken by the non-native speakers of Hindi as ‘incorrect’ or ‘impure’. They say that such people tamper with the language and the language is losing its ‘purity’. Now if that is the case then Hindi too cannot be considered as ‘pure’ as it has evolved from Sanskrit and it is a variation of the mother language. Therefore, no one has any right to call a certain form of any language as ‘correct’ and another as ‘incorrect’.