Communication distortion in Malayalees: Blame on Television?

Communication distortion in Malayalees- can we blame it all on the idiot box? Malayalees have increasingly jumped into the bandwagon effect that their growing addiction to Television has done enough harm to them already. Television may not have seemingly destroyed communication among the friends and family circle, yet it has already made them rotten to the core. Television enhances passive attention to images than active conversation and thereby reduces active conversation. This in turn degrades their vocabularies almost to the rudimentary level.

In order to find out this startling impact Television has already done on the younger generation, in terms of communication, just make a comparison between the vocabularies of high school students 30 to 35 years ago with those of the high school students today. Elegant impeccable English has already had its time in Kerala. No more does a child nod to “ostensible” and “exorbitant”. How can he even hear about it, the one who is ever engrossed in that boob tube adorning his living room? Who has seldom leapt to any lecture halls or communication clubs? It would be surprising to spot a student who has even come across similar expressions.

Writing is one area wherein which verbal deterioration can be best spotted. These days rarely can a student put together a cogent paragraph, incorporate a convincing logical argument into it, avoid gross spelling mistakes and finally conclude it at ease with grammar and punctuation all in place. In fact, what people write and talk is as significant as how they discuss over it. One of the largest influences of Television is in their choice of topics of discussion too. They can only talk about what the ‘Bahu’ did to her mother in law in that Rosy aunt’s tearful soap, or how cruel a verdict it was to eliminate that handsome looking boy out of the reality show; curses on the judges!!

Still, it would be obviously a grave mistake on our part to put all the brunt of the blame to the poor little Idiot box. Nor can we throw a blind eye to the gross deterioration in verbal communication skills that has ruled the roost of our lives, through this “video culture”. We are now a generation alike a bicycle with a single pedal: it works, but not well.

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