09-28-2008, 01:29 PM
Here is how Urdu lovers promote their language (through outright lies):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Today for words like aasman, bagh, garam, sard, aadmi, aurat, hisaab, kitaab⦠it is impossible to imagine that these do not belong to Hindi. Arabic, Persian-speaking Muslims in India accepted thousands of Hindi words, phrases, idioms, proverbs and even Hindi grammar. Similarly, Hindus accepted thousands of Arabic Persian-speaking words which became a part of Hindi language. It is this mix of languages merged that came to be known as Urdu.
The word âUrduâ meant army in Shahjahanâs time. The Mughal army was called urdu-e-moalla or great army. Urdu, therefore, basically is mixed Hindi. Gradually, Urdu got shaped and sculpted into what was polite, velvety, sweet and tender to speak as well as hear. Urdu poetry filled the lives of people with emotions of love and pain, experience of life and existence, philosophy and diplomacy, human fallings and ambitions and so on. It reflected the culture and civilisation of its times. It was the language of the people woven into their hearts and minds echoing their sentiments and thoughts. Urdu language was used at home and in business, education, administration, conversation between Hindus and Muslims and so on.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070506/edit.htm#3<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
wtf?
Urdu poetry did not fill the "lives of people", even today the vast majority of Hindus don't know Urdu, if anything filled the lives of people, it was couplets from Tulsidas etc.
These people talk as if Urdu is some special language (sweet, civilized etc) while other languages aren't.
The less said about the alleged "secular, egalitarian" framework of Urdu the better, most Urdu poets were jihadi bigots
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Today for words like aasman, bagh, garam, sard, aadmi, aurat, hisaab, kitaab⦠it is impossible to imagine that these do not belong to Hindi. Arabic, Persian-speaking Muslims in India accepted thousands of Hindi words, phrases, idioms, proverbs and even Hindi grammar. Similarly, Hindus accepted thousands of Arabic Persian-speaking words which became a part of Hindi language. It is this mix of languages merged that came to be known as Urdu.
The word âUrduâ meant army in Shahjahanâs time. The Mughal army was called urdu-e-moalla or great army. Urdu, therefore, basically is mixed Hindi. Gradually, Urdu got shaped and sculpted into what was polite, velvety, sweet and tender to speak as well as hear. Urdu poetry filled the lives of people with emotions of love and pain, experience of life and existence, philosophy and diplomacy, human fallings and ambitions and so on. It reflected the culture and civilisation of its times. It was the language of the people woven into their hearts and minds echoing their sentiments and thoughts. Urdu language was used at home and in business, education, administration, conversation between Hindus and Muslims and so on.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070506/edit.htm#3<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
wtf?
Urdu poetry did not fill the "lives of people", even today the vast majority of Hindus don't know Urdu, if anything filled the lives of people, it was couplets from Tulsidas etc.
These people talk as if Urdu is some special language (sweet, civilized etc) while other languages aren't.
The less said about the alleged "secular, egalitarian" framework of Urdu the better, most Urdu poets were jihadi bigots