[Reader-list] Urdu as a sick language-any rebuttals?

[mahmood farooqui]

Urdu is not only
> poor for communicating higher 
> > level of scientific terms, it carries sick
> cultural tendencies which can 
> > destroy a community which uses it as a vehicle for
> any kind of communication among 
> > its members. The decadence in Pakistan is the
> prime example. If Urdu had not 
> > been imposed on Pakistan, it would have been a
> better and nicer country. 
> >  
> > This position ostensibly seems silly, but deeper
> analysis will verify the 
> > truthfulness of this statement.
> In early 60s when Urdu advocacy groups were 
> > much more powerful in Pakistan they ridiculed
> themselves by importing Persian, 
> > Arabic and Turkish terms to clean Urdu from the
> influence of English. In those 
> > days, they went to such extremes like changing
> "toilets" with "bait ul 
> > khala" and "waiting rooms" with "rahat khana" on
> Pakistan's all railway stations. 
> > These were also the days when Anjamane Tarraqi
> Urdu tried to write science 
> > and math books in Urdu. The terms they coined or
> imported from Persian, Arabic 
> > and Turkish for replacement of English terms were
> much more complicated than 
> > the English terms. We often had to  check English
> terms in index pages to 
> > understand the Urdu terms. 
> >  
> > So much for the richness of Urdu language for
> science and mathematics, now I 
> > come back to the earlier statement I made about
> Urdu language. I said Urdu 
> > language carries sick cultural tendencies which
> can destroy the community 
> > community which uses it as a vehicle for any kind
> of communication among its 
> > members. Due to these sick cultural tendencies,
> Urdu played a major role in the 
> > destruction of Muslims of India. 
> >  
> > By reading this statement if someone's blood is
> boiling I'll request him to 
> > hold his hormones until I explain this statement. 
> >  
> > According to my analysis Urdu language carries in
> itself many heavy packages 
> > of "darbari, jagirdari and nawabi" cultural
> traditions which condition human 
> > minds to adopt decadent "darbari, jagirdari and
> nawabi" values. We can 
> > witness these values prevalent in social groups
> where Urdu is in frequent use. 
> > Hypocrisy, racial arrogance, hair splitting are
> the common traits. 
> >  
> > If one looks at the last 50 years of Mughals when
> the transformation started 
> > from pure Farsi linguistic culture to Urdu
> linguistic culture the negative 
> > cultural values started entering in the mindset of
>  the Indian Muslim ruling 
> > elite. Masochistic values became social norms with
> the growing influence of 
> > Urdu to the extent that eventfully it destroyed
> Indian Muslims. 
> >  
> > Indian Muslims only started recovering when they
> became in interaction with 
> > English language. Hindus started this interaction
> much before Muslims, that 
> > is why Hindus recovered from these sicknesses much
> earlier. Muslim started 
> > interaction with English much later, that is why,
> they remained socially sick 
> > for much longer period. 
> >  
> > This rejuvenation continued and remained effective
> until early 60s in 
> > Pakistan till the people who were directly exposed
> to English linguistic value 
> > system were in leadership positions. When the
> epidemic of replacing Urdu with 
> > English became prevalent in Pakistan, the country
> and the people started to 
> > plunge again. 
> >  
> > The sad part of this whole story is the advocates
> of Urdu have never 
> > bothered to look at the sick cultural packages
> carried by Urdu language. 
> >  
> > As a matter of fact most of them treat these sick
> cultural packages as the 
> > richness and beauty of Urdu language. 
> >  
> > Best regards, 
> >  
> > K. Ashraf
> >  
> > PS: The above statements are not intended to hurt
> anyone's feelings, these 
> > are my personal interpretations, anyone may agree
> or disagree in whatever way 
> > one deems appropriate. 
> >  



		
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