Language evolution or mutilation? (1)

I would like to bring it to the attention of Priscilla Camilleri (Let’s Preserve Our Language, February 15) that it’s only natural of language to evolve, and this can involve a mixing or fusion with another, or more, languages. That is how a language comes to be in the first place.

To hell with all the nostalgia and fear of losing our “pride and identity”, that is but an inferiority complex and pride is only there to be wounded. The point of language is first and foremost communication, that we understand one another. Everything else is an invention or simply secondary and falls into place the way nature will have it, so let this beautiful process flow!

I watched a documentary recently: even China, since they’ve started opening up so radically to the business world, have similar “concerns” of what will happen to their language and therefore “identity”. Would you believe it? I mean those guys have long seen that the fork is better but haven’t even lost their chopsticks yet, let alone lose their identity.