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Rein in English

Sir, — English is important to us in India as our window to the world. Its licentious tendency has affected our own language as well. But given the inherent discipline of our languages, the line between the correct form and the incorrect is sharp and clear, even as we have benefited from the directness of expression in English. Sanskrit, for instance, leaves no room for adventurous liberalism with its vocabulary "structurally modelled." It is time the British took some lessons from their former subjects in India, to rein in their own language.

S.L.N. Sharma,
Hassan, Karnataka

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