Dhaka, June 21 -- We in Bangladesh are undergoing some fundamental changes in the way we employ language in our everyday conversation. Here is a pointer: at home we ask for bhaat and maachh and murgi and shobji. That is only natural, seeing that it is the Bengali language we speak. But take your family out to dinner at a local restaurant specializing in Chinese food. Once there, as you examine the menu, you are quite liable to ask the waiter for some rice, not bhaat. You are, of course, addressing him in Bengali, but you are not ordering a plate of bhaat but one of rice. Outside the home, it is so-called modernity or faux elitism which takes over. In that restaurant, you tell that polite waiter, "Rice-er shathe fish ar vegetable deben." ...