Avoid 'Banglish'
Istiaque uddin Rifat Dept. of EEE, RUET
There are hundreds of words in Bangla language that came from other languages. English is dominating over those languages. Though words like chair, school etc have corresponding Bangla words, they are no longer used. Now those words are treasure of our own language. This flow of words from a language to another is very natural. In recent days this flow became a must, because of the on going technological revolution and easy transfer of information.This flow of words towards Bangla from English has nothing alarming. What is a matter of anxiety is the use of genuine English words in Bangla structured sentence. Some people think that injecting English words while speaking in Bangla presents them as smart. They probably don't know how weird those sentences sound. Teachers of various schools and colleges like to term this kind of mixture as "Banglish" (Bangla+English). Practising English is good but we should avoid this kind of mixture and practise our own language as it is.
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