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Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience. Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:12 am  Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience.
 

This was said, of English in India, by Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University.

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"English had to change if it had to carry the Indian psyche and sociocultural experience in a meaningful way."

Do you believe a language has to change to fit the "psyche and sociocultural experience" of its users? Is, for example, American English now more able to carry the American (U.S.) psyche and sociocultural experience in a more meaningful way that it could a couple of hundred years ago?

Evaluating literature
This statement was made by Lord Macaulay in 1835.
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"I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value...I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. I have never found one amongst them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia."

Do you think that statement was a fair assessment of Indian/Arabian literature, and, if so, do you think it would also stand as a fair assessment of modern/contemporary Indian/Arabian literature?
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Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience. Thu Mar 13, 2008 0:41 am  Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience.
 

I don't think that a language can change itself. Some people try to learn English and as a result create their own sub-standards by changing or simplifying some elements of the language.

American English changed because the social, economic and political situation changed. But this is the case with any language.
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Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience. Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:12 pm  Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience.
 

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Some people try to learn English and as a result create their own sub-standards by changing or simplifying some elements of the language.

Not sure what you mean by "sub-standards", there. Why not "non-standards"? And, who should set standards? Only native-speakers?
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Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience. Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:38 pm  Language change, psyche and sociocultural experience.
 

Molly wrote:
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Some people try to learn English and as a result create their own sub-standards by changing or simplifying some elements of the language.

Not sure what you mean by "sub-standards", there. Why not "non-standards"? And, who should set standards? Only native-speakers?

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