ITEM NO. 5
THE SHOCKING 'MYSTERIES OF LANGUAGE SCIENCE"
accurately, clearly, completely and convincingly.
There are many Mysteries of the Language Science unraveled in the new
Methodology of Mr. Jacob Nettikkadan, his four volume
books and his other works. When you come to know these, your Learning
Interest will be shot up tremendously, your love for scholarly knowledge will
soar high and you will be able to learn English with greater concentration,
urge and speed to produce the greatest self-confidence.
1. The
mystery of Verb : The
Englishman has taught us many things about the use of Verbs in English, but did not divide Verbs according to their
usage or classify them into different groups according to their application of
rules. Mr. Jacob Nettikkadan
has found out that for learning to handle a new language proficiently, we have
to know the minute classifications of Verb, their meanings and appropriate
usages. He
has found out that for expressing ideas in English and most other languages
properly, flexibly and extensively, Verb has to be divided into eight
categories. We have also to know the
use of all the eight categories of Verb in English and learn their different
uses and rules of application in detail, to
be able to express ideas in that language properly, flexibly and extensively. These
are taught in great details in his book "
2. The
greatest mystery of Language Science is that out of the eight categories of
Verb, the first category comprises of 99.9% of the total number of Verbs in
English, let us assume, 75,000 words.
The prevailing system was mainly concentrating on teaching the usages of these Verbs only. All
the remaining seven categories of Verb
together have only 18 words of Verbs, five out of them being the most important
and most powerful Verbs in English (i.e.
can, may, should, must and ought to). The
shocking factor is that in actual use of the English language, these
18 words will outweigh the first category of 75,000 words, by minimum five
times (500%). That means, if we place 75,000 words of Verb (like : go,
run, write, speak etc.) belonging to the first category, in a weighing scale
and the 18 words, including the five mentioned above, in the second scale, the second scale will weigh
minimum five times more than the first scale. The style of handling this area
to make the learner understand the matter very easily and fast is by using a
matrimonial alliance of the five bachelors
(can, may, should,
must and ought to) marrying
all the 75,000 words of Verbs (virgins)
individually to give each of them five
husbands.
3. The next mystery is that
these five most important and powerful Verbs are also the most complicated
Verbs in English. Teaching them is the most difficult and
painstaking task in
English. Actually in the
present teaching method, this
area has been proved to be the "
Mr.
Nettikkadan"s philological dexterity is discernible
in analyzing the problem minutely and handling this area most skillfully by introducing an invention to solve the problem and
making it user-friendly. Out
of his research he has found out that these five MOST POWERFUL but complicated VERBS have
many types of usages, each having a new meaning and
rules of application (just like a single actor playing different
rolls in a cinema at different contexts.) You may be
able to grasp the complication of these words when you come to know that out of
the total number of 32 families of sentences in the whole of English (as discovered by Mr. Nettikkadan), these five words alone rule over or govern 18
families, just like the ancient Emperors. All the remaining Verbs in English together
rule over only 14 families of sentences. To facilitate their proper learning, Mr. Nettikkadan has named these Verbs "Associate Verbs" instead
of including them in the list of "Auxiliary Verbs" as branded by the
British.
4.
The next mystery is exclusively in the
English language. The
Verbs "do, does, did, am, is,
are, was, were, will be, has, have, had and will have" have
double usages, one as
main Verb to occupy the Verb column for making the original sentences (Mr. Nettikkadan calls these sentences "Statement Positive
sentences). Another
usage of these words is called "Auxiliary Verbs" which
are meant to convert Statement Positive sentences into Statement Negative
sentences or Question type of sentences, for making other tenses of Verbs etc. The existing system does not teach the use of the
above mentioned words for making Statement Positive sentences, but learners have to read these Verbs in
English sentences when they read books, journals, magazines etc. However, the use of Auxiliary Verbs is taught
in schools, colleges etc. So, when
postgraduates with B. Ed. qualification learned our method only, they could
understand about the double use of these Verbs and remove the confusion. The folly on the part of the English language
makers is that they chose each of the words
referred to earlier (imagine
them to be twins), to
be the mistress of the house at one time and the servant in the same family at
another occasion. Had they
chosen totally new words for the second purpose, the confusion could have been
completely avoided.
5.
The Englishman provided a list of many
Verbs as Auxiliary Verbs (described
as helping Verbs),
the main function of which is to serve other Verbs for different purposes. But, Mr.
Jacob Nettikkadan found a serious defect in
it. He found some of the words in this
group belonging to managerial class, though
they have also to be considered employees like the helping Verbs. So, he excluded 11 such words from the list
of Auxiliary Verbs and ranked them "Associate
Verbs", to be distinguished from other Auxiliary
Verbs. Mr. Nettikkadan ranks these words superior to
others, mainly because they are capable of producing Statement Positive
Sentences, whereas ordinary Auxiliary Verbs are not able to do it.
In 1986, Mr. Nettikkadan conducted two correspondence courses on all
India basis from Calcutta (now Kolkata)
in the name of Xavier Institute of Management, under the caption "Intermediate English" and "Bachelor of English" to give training to
teach English using his methodology, in which a large number of scholars from
other institutions joined. That was the
time the
6. The number of Verb : A
great faux pas was
committed by the British when they chose the method to determine the number of
Verbs in English. The
first blunder committed was to
prescribe the plural form of Verb (go, run, write, speak etc.) to be given in the dictionary as original Verbs
and expecting the users of English to convert them into singular
form. The second blunder was to provide the method
of conversion of the plural Verb into singular form by
adding some letter or letters to the plural Verb. For example, when "take" (the plural form)
has to be converted into singular form by adding "s", to make
the singular form
"takes", logically it is like adding "two" with "three" to get
"one", most
unacceptable to the people who think rationally and logically. However, the method of adding some letter or
letters to the singular Noun to get the plural form, is acceptable to everybody
who thinks rationally and locally, e.g. Dog (singular form) + s = dogs (plural
form).
7. The number of the Pronoun "I" : According to the English language, "I" is sometimes used as singular word;
otherwise plural. As
per grammatical rule, the number of Verb has to agree with the number of "I". But
the British people never made it clear when "I" is considered singular and when
plural. Mr. Nettikkadan
had to make the longest research for a single item on this issue and find out
the answer for it. For that, he used
one of his inventions "Map of Language" which is described as an
8. The mystery of learning the
grammatical rules of more than one million (10,00,000)
words in English. To use each word in English, we have to
know the spelling, pronunciation and meaning of the word and there are more
than one million words in English.
In the new methodology we have to learn one
more item about each word, i.e. into
which of the three columns ("Actor, Action and Receiver of Action) the word
will fall. Otherwise
we will not be able to fill up each column with the appropriate words to make
sentences in English. This
needs the most scientific mental application; otherwise most of the learners
will have to give up learning the language at this stage.
Mr. Nettikkadan"s imagination solves the problem like this : The language scientists must have spread all
the words (more than 10,00,000) in English on a large platform in such a way
that they could see each word separately from an elevated place with a powerful
binocular and magnifying glass, so that they could view all the words very
minutely. When observing all the words meticulously, they found a number of words
having similar usage, but
lying spread here and there. They took a basket and
collected all those words in it. They
knew what "grammar" was and so they wrote down rules for using these words in
sentences and kept them below the basket. Then
they made further observation of words and found one more type of words having
another usage. They collected them into
the second basket and wrote down rules for making sentences out of them below
the basket. Like that they got seven
baskets filled up. The remaining words
gave them a surprise;
all of them had the eighth type of usage. They
filled them into the eighth basket.
Now there is no burden of handling one million words
any longer; there
are only eight groups or baskets of words, each having homogeneity in usage or
application of rules.
If you learn to identify words in each basket and
learn the rules under each basket, you can handle one million words very easily
and fast.
Over and above the
above mentioned step, Mr. Nettikkadan exhorts us to
add rational and logical thinking : There is only one
type of use for all the words in a basket.
So, he concludes "The
rules below each basket have to belong to a single word in the basket, because
the same rules apply for the first, second, third or each word in the basket. Thus, "Learning English becomes the learning of the complete
rules of eight words (from
eight baskets) in English". Can
it be equal to climbing the
9. The greatest mystery of
Language Science, unknown to humanity : The
grammar of every language in the world has to revolve around eight or nine
words, as arrived at under Sl. No.8. Out of the nine types of words, one is
called Articles, an
ornament available in English (a, an, the (tha) or
the (thi) – three words with four sounds), French,
German etc. Other languages function
successfully without this jewellery, making the language
itself less cumbersome. This inspires us
to ask a question "Why
are some languages simpler or more difficult than others ?
"
Out of the eight or
nine types of words in every language,
some are used as they appear in dictionary throughout
our life. They
will never undergo any change of form while using. For example, in English, Prepositions : in, on, near, behind, below etc.; Conjunctions : and,
that, because, since etc.; Interjections
: Alas !,
Hurray !, etc.; Articles : a, an,
the or the.
These words will be
used always as they are; no change is ever needed for their usage anywhere in
the language throughout our life. Moreover, if their proper usage is learned
once, there is nothing further to learn about their usage in the whole
language. The remaining groups of words (Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs
and Verbs) have families (i.e.
variations, inflexions or new formations of the same word for new meaning, or
new words derived out of these words with new meaning and usage). It
is in this region the simplicity or difficulty
of languages is concentrated.
Out of these five
types of words, Adjectives and Adverbs have
three each family members, called
degrees (Positive degree, Comparative degree and Superlative degree) in
English. In some other languages, these words have more varied usages, such as
number and Tense. Naturally complexity increases accordingly. Nouns
and Pronouns have
five to seven family members each, called Declension of Nouns and Pronouns (or families of Nouns and Pronouns). All the remaining variations in a language belong to
the Verb group, Malayalam (the
vernacular of Kerala in India) having
the least number, followed by English, with 1877 variations
or 1877 family members for Verb. (The
major problem with English is its 'non-phonetic" alphabet or non-standardized
use of each letter. You can joke : "There are only 26 alphabet, but they have 260 styles
of representing sounds", compelling the user to learn by-heart the
pronunciations of all words except "I" and "a". ) It is in the area of Verb, the variations in the remaining languages of the world
fly high, creating more complexity for the
language. For
example, Malayalam is the only language in the world with one word expression
in one Tense, e.g. "chadunnu" which means "jump/jumps" in English. While we have to learn and use two
alternatives (jump or jumps – with the same meaning) in a Tense of English, the
users of Hindi language (the
national language of

