Stagnation of lexicographic work caused him concern
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GV made the request at his centenary celebrations in 2012
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At his centenary celebrations in 2012, G. Venkatasubbaiah had appealed for the lexicon branch of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat to be reopened.
GV made the request at his centenary celebrations in 2012
G. Venkatasubbaiah was nagged by one concern during his last days: work on the monumental eight-part dictionary put together over five decades by two generation of lexicographers, including himself, had stopped in 1994. It has neither been revised nor updated, while the language had changed tremendously.
Every two or three decades, at least 10% new words get added to a language, he opined, and advocated that the dictionary needs to be revised, like the Oxford English Dictionary. At his centenary celebrations in 2012, he appealed for the lexicon branch of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) to be reopened.