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All
languages are descended from Sanskrit. |
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Sanskrit
can never borrow from any other language, while all the others have
drawn upon it in various measures. |
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The connexion between morphemes and their semantemes is natural and
eternal. |
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One class of words is arbitrary in nature. |
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The
efficacy of the Sanskrit mantras depends upon the correct pronunciation
of the words they contain. Any mispronunciation would spell grave
disaster. |
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The Vedic Aryan and Sanskrit are one and the same language. |
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The
Vedas are eternal. They were only discovered by some seers and not
composed by them. |
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All arts and sciences are evolved out of the Vedic lore. |
No
wonder the ship of linguistic science floundered in the quicksand and
quagmire of Brahmin philology, owing to the mis-steering of the vessel
by the Western philologists.
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16.
The Fallacies of Descriptive Linguistics
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One of the fundamental principles of Descriptive
Linguistics is, that all languages are arbitrary. This is disproved by
the fact that Tamil, the earliest cultivated language of the world, contains
no arbitrary word, and is still traceable to its very origin. The Tamil
grammarians had standardized Tamil at a very early time, and never approved
of any deviation from it. It was owing to the strict observance of this
rigid principle that Tamil has been preserved in its primitive condition
to a tolerable extent. But in the case of other languages, there has been
no such restriction, and their words have got corrupted in the long lapse
of time beyond recognition, and have adopted one phase of meaning after
another, till the original meaning is overlaid or forgotten.
“Vocabulary comes and goes. It is the least
stable and even the least characteristic of the three components of language.
That portion of the vocabulary which changes most freely is sometimes
referred to as “slang”. But even staid and dignified words are
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