The Karachi Airport Ayatollah

Rozaiba

Go on ditch ur own language, and speak to each other in accented english, show the world ur inferiority complex, ya ya ok...

rozaiba #12 you write ``screw urdu! Urdu as the national language is the wet dream of old-fashioned `one religion one language` ideologues of Pakistan. ``

Very nicely put.

Mirza Ghalib Hai Hai!!
Angreji Jabaan ki Jai Howai!!

(I think I have been on chowk too long, and am mixing up the slogans I learnt from Manto. And even starting to drop the Z for the J, like one of the RSS-types who hang out here).

Brilliant ideas!

From now on, whenever SaaeeN Allah Bukhsh from Zila Bilawal, Sindh, would visit Mohammad Boota s/o Allah Ditta in Gujranwala, he would have two choices to communicate with his fellow Pakistani:

1 - Take a crash course in English 48 hours before departure. But, for that he would need at least a high school education. Okay, scratch this one.

2 - Learn Punjabi. Of course, the Sindhis just love the Punjabi culture and are dying to learn their language and dialects. On second thought, scratch this one too.

3 - Learn sign language. This may prove to be the most neutral avenue available to us. Besides, it offers extra benefits in the form of reduced noise pollution.

Urdu may not enjoy patronage at a regional level, but its role as the lingua franca of Pakistan that helps people from different provinces communicate with each other is unchallenged. When a Pathan lands in Karachi searching for a job, say as a driver, he depends on Urdu to communicate and make a living.

Those who think English will replace it anytime soon should take a crash course in common sense.

veeru


!yah ik tab ayk haw ahcahc ureev

:)

RE Veeresh ``Hava anda`` means ``have an egg parantha`` in Kotla Mubarakpur/Sewa Nagar ``
And very yummy they are too - even though the oil always struck me to be of dubious origin.

Kick Urdu out of Pakistan. Once you do that, Indians will no doubt reclaim it as their own.

``Hava anda`` means ``have an egg parantha`` in Kotla Mubarakpur/Sewa Nagar after driving back from Gym towards DefCol late night by the inside route next to the Safdarjung/INA Colony railway tracks. Everything comes back to food.

``Hava Nagila`` means code word for ``airport`` by Israelis overflying, in Pakistanese, I am told.

``Viman Tal`` means ``airport`` in ``shudh Urdu``, as announced by the ``hawai-Sundari`` on the Aath - Paanch - Shunya night Airbus-320 flight from Poona to Delhi.

!!uoy knaht llew gniod si aidnI ni udrU

For every one young person who says he or she is interested in learning urdu, one hundred say they would rather learn english. why be impervious to their desires? screw urdu! Urdu as the national language is the wet dream of old-fashioned `one religion one language` ideologues of Pakistan.

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utter nonsense!

Where does the word Hawai come from? Is the root for this word Sanskrit `Vayu` or is there some Persian or Arabic root for it. Incidently, when in Punjabi they some something is `vayi baadi` it means it creates gas or `vayu` in the body.

Nice essay...

However, I couldn`t help noticing the other day on the train these two guys who were speaking Urdu to each other. They sounded so effeminate and the G word came to mind..however, when they occasionally slipped into Punjabi - their testerone levels went magically up.. :)

A really good article! You`ve raised a very important issue. However English is the world`s second language. The fact that English is spoken and understood by so many Pakistanis can be used as a positive thing. Nevertheless Urdu is OUR language and the English language can`t compare!

funny article...

its Havai aDa not hava ada...

and international has been indusized, its pronounced eenTerneyshnul...

you are wery funny haroon sahib. i am your number one fanclub!

The governments are fast losing control over the choice of the means of communications among people and parties. The whole issue of national langauge besides official business is thing of the past. Bottom line is: what works. Opposing Englsh in modern world is useless idea and it wont work.