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Is Urdu becoming stagnant?
submitted 9 months 9 days 21 hours ago by: pirzada : 8 commentsUrdu used to be very vibrant language, evolving and adding new words and phrases. The mother of urdu language is Farsi, but one of the reasons of urdu being highly adopted was in the social backdrop of its time of growth - people used to speak farsi and arabic and mix of local langauges.
As farsi had official blessings, eventually all the rules/meaning and structure was followed that of farsi. We had turkic as well. But with exception of couple of decades post-independence, we have hardly any new writer/philosopher/revolutionist/urdu-ist worth mentioning.
Is this because of cultural invasion of english, or that we still have great writers just that we dont give
them their due reading?
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A language is only as strong as the nation which speaks it
Most unfortunately, Urdu is dying a slow death - really.
Can we revive her? Its one of the most beautiful language(s) among post-industrial era of human development.
ppl disagree with me but all the TV channels propagate English as a superior language...yesterday i almost died of laughing at PTV's urdu newscaster saying "Welcome back" after the break..previously they were restricted to urdu but now they r pursuing an amalgam of both languages.....
even in my uni urdu means paindu n command over english means mod....pathetic losers...i m sure urdu is as ashamed of them as they r of her.....kamal tasweer kashi ki hai hum ne...personification ko urdu main kia kehte hain???wo ki hai infact...
A language is known by its works....Earth shattering, heaven parting works
What does Urdu offer but poetry to numb the very senses; there is no philosophy, no science and no works of pure research that she can boast of.
Maybe she is to blame for our predicament for she does not lend herself to lofty ideas
I say bury her alive!
ppl i had a really nice time with all of you but i m leaving....i can't stand such a freedom of xpression that can kill me through high blood pressure or brain heamorrhage...i don't want to die like this
There is no point in leaving this forum. You will come across such saddists all throughout your life and running away from them will fetch you nothing but alienation. Best is to ignore such critics who just criticise for the sake of an argument, coz they can't help it. They love to see the darker side of life and live with it cursing themselves to be a part of it.
Perhaps, when people will come out of this english-maniac, and accept urdu as language then one can see her being adopted in every part of life.
Taking excuse of english as language of science, we are leaving urdu - its pathetic thinking. If ours was a logical approach, I would not have seen Unix/Linux/Microsof products being developed for various languages: Hebrew came back strong from near extinction. They revived it and now use it for their sole communications.
We more need to change/read things, rather than simply discarding because we are lazzy bums and can't work hard enough to learn.