Re: punctuation in telugu
Bapa Rao (brao@pollux.usc.edu)
Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:31:21 -0800 (PST)
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> *** Reply to note of 11/15/95 13:07
> From: Viswanath Vadlamani
> Subject: re: punctuation in telugu
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> In article
> > Message-ID: <v02110100acceb82ebcf8@Y144.92.181.76">
> > vnrao@facstaff.wisc.edu (Velcheru Narayana Rao)
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> writes
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> >it is somewhere between a print style and speech style. In the absence
> >strong need for developing a standard language for intellectual
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> > communication, Telugu is largely in the hands of creative writers. A
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> I fail to understand why Mr. Rao is lamenting the issue of a language
> evolving, especially as he himself claims, in the hands of creative
> writers.
VNR garu will no doubt respond for himself, but what I gathered from
his note is that there is the need for a sort of "sishTa
vyavahaarikam" narrative style standard that is accessible to
non-creative types of writing (One aspect of creative writing by
definition is that it could be innovative and idiosyncratic in style).
There is such a standard, albeit in an informal sense, for English
writing.
Bapa Rao