Posted by: Sheetalb April 21, 2008
Prachanda and Gyanendra's meeting
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 I do not think you can just say 'Hajur is a beauty of language' and do not address the problem. In fact all the problems in our society is becasue of 'hajur' language. In face if we have been able to limit the layer to just 'timi' and 'tapai' a lot of 'chamchagiri' in Nepal would have been abolished. Understandable that many families use the language to show that they are of 'Khandan' and are not 'Pakhe', there is clearly a differentiation because of the language in our society. In our culture, it is such address that denotes the ''class' of the person. It has always pained me to see how people use 'hajur' to anyone they found most important but use 'ta' to people of equal age but of different social class. It is so sad that we have laguage to denote respect purely based on the 'class' or 'wealth' or 'position' of people.

I hope these layers of language will be 'banned' in our society altogether and we would put everyone in 'timi' or 'tapai' bracket and thus at least verbally unify people despite social status or money!

 

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