[ALOCHONA] The importance of being earnest

Dear Alochoks

 

Here are some choice words and phrases that suggest the articles in which they reside are probably the product of a half baked propaganda machine:

 

1. Nexus

2. Strategic

3. Strategies

4. Cabal

5. Regime

6. Experts believe

7. Some analysts say

8. Almost certainly

9. Indicate

10. Rajakar

11. BAL

12. Everybody knows

13. Hegemony

14. Escalation

15. Heightened tensions

16. Increasing alarm

17. Growing concern

18. Not surprisingly

19. Looks suspiciously like

20. Vital interests

 

Language lives and breathes. Language reveals more about the writer/speaker than the writer/speaker would like to think.

The art of not revealing oneself in one's words is hardly developed in Bangladesh. Restraint and caution are not developed either.

This applies abundantly to me too of course J

 

But the point I am making is that those who think they are being cunning in their writing are not so cunning at all to a lover of language.

Words may stack up to build a reasonable argument. But the body odour of Mr Choto Lok from Kutha Gao, Idiotganj may be revealed in the same words.

This is most apparent in articles on South Asia that are presented as if they were published in the FT, Time or Newsweek last week J

 

Few suggestions are as hilarious as '...causing alarm in Dhaka' and 'strategists in Dhaka think...'!!   

 

Arguments should always be earnestly made.

 

Ezajur Rahman

Kuwait

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