Worker’s Language

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

The language used by the workers strikes me time and again. They have used rough words and it is full of metaphors rather than the common language. The language mostly reflects sex and sexual matter which seemed rough to us but it reflects the real metaphors of our practical life. In spite of the language they have used, they don’t have such sense what languages they have been using time and again.

When I stayed with the workers I have listened and evaluated how they have spoken. They have used the language full of metaphors which is quite impossible for a simple man to understand. I have come to such incident in my childhood age that one of the workers who came to work in our village would tease our elder sisters. At that time I have taken that as simple method of teasing girls by boys. But it has greater meaning when I became adult and the language they have used is full of metaphors and symbols.

Actually, language has power in itself or it has created the real flavor of human civilization. The authentic context of our civilization has been featured with the language they have used as I evaluated. If there are male and female workers they have exchanged the language of sexuality indirectly without using simile. So I realized that the real meaning of the youths have started from love and sexuality. Mostly the workers have featured the real situation of our socalled uncivilized society.

The flavor of the language they have used is liked by me very much though it seems rough and tough. They have used irony mostly that has always secondary meaning. We don’t find the direct meaning of it which is so simple and without any base or taste. So the language they have used is secondary not primary. The secondary meaning of the language is much interesting and full of taste to use and exchange. Thus the language isn’t only a simple expression it is action in itself. The language which could satisfy us is the real language that we have to use in our life. Thus the use of language should be short and sweet with full of meanings and metaphors.

It reflects that we should go to the root-level to find out the real flavor of language. It would certainly attract the language experts and researchers with the language workers have used. Irrespective of sexuality the language they have used is reflective and metaphorical. It has been used to evoke secondary matters which they have been unaware. The language which we use as official one is full of grammar, syntax, formality, and logical. It didn’t give the flavor of the local people which is constructed itself without the rule of grammar and so on.

I have the belief that language makes grammar, grammar doesn’t make language. So the reality of the language can be found out of so-called systematic language. Thus the official language is opposite of the language used by the workers. The official language is like the shoes shining with police. On the other hand, the language of the workers is full of colloquialism and reality based.