POPULIST HINGLISH DISINTEGRATING ENGLISH;
Hinglish has become order of the day and is more or less tremendously popular,not only among youth but hugely popular in advertisers taglines,literature,movies.short message service [SMS],songs,graffiti,and even day to day conversations and communication,though it is fast disintegrating fundamentals of classical English.Accordingly English language is going through a critical and precious phase.I strongly feel that the way people converse isn't cool at all and on the contrary it is actually killing the essence of this rich language.What saddens me most is that various publications and some of the celebrity writers too have joined the chorus of 'linguistic populism'. The SMS/whatsapp 21st century generation has got preference and priority for its own exclusive spellings-linguistic innovation indeed.Any way,the trouble with Hinglish is that it can cause havoc when clear,meaningful and purposeful communication is required,
Substantial number of current popular Hinglish terms are adaptation of English words, which are assigned a specific English meaning. There is no uniformity of such words and in the absence of any linguistic conglomeration,those words differ from region to region and person to person.Most common process is the formation of nouns from words of various parts of speech in standard English.Examples currently in vogue include :-
# Would be [noun]~~~~~~~~~~~Fiance or fiancee.
# Opticals [noun]~~~~~~~~~~~Spectacles,glasses.
# Time pass[noun]~~~~~~~~~~~An activity that is not very interesting but passes the time.
# Nose screw [noun]~~~~~~~~~A nose stud as a fashion accessory.
# Air dash [noun]~~~~~~~~~~Air travel,travel by plane.
Full list loaded with words from Hindi and other regional languages cannot be compiled and presentation here is just symbolic one .
Hinglish has become order of the day and is more or less tremendously popular,not only among youth but hugely popular in advertisers taglines,literature,movies.short message service [SMS],songs,graffiti,and even day to day conversations and communication,though it is fast disintegrating fundamentals of classical English.Accordingly English language is going through a critical and precious phase.I strongly feel that the way people converse isn't cool at all and on the contrary it is actually killing the essence of this rich language.What saddens me most is that various publications and some of the celebrity writers too have joined the chorus of 'linguistic populism'. The SMS/whatsapp 21st century generation has got preference and priority for its own exclusive spellings-linguistic innovation indeed.Any way,the trouble with Hinglish is that it can cause havoc when clear,meaningful and purposeful communication is required,
Substantial number of current popular Hinglish terms are adaptation of English words, which are assigned a specific English meaning. There is no uniformity of such words and in the absence of any linguistic conglomeration,those words differ from region to region and person to person.Most common process is the formation of nouns from words of various parts of speech in standard English.Examples currently in vogue include :-
# Would be [noun]~~~~~~~~~~~Fiance or fiancee.
# Opticals [noun]~~~~~~~~~~~Spectacles,glasses.
# Time pass[noun]~~~~~~~~~~~An activity that is not very interesting but passes the time.
# Nose screw [noun]~~~~~~~~~A nose stud as a fashion accessory.
# Air dash [noun]~~~~~~~~~~Air travel,travel by plane.
Full list loaded with words from Hindi and other regional languages cannot be compiled and presentation here is just symbolic one .
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