imagine if the chinese were ashamed of themselves.

[Jafri]

Re: imagine if the chinese were ashamed of themselves.

@psyah

When I speak Urdu I say Ramzan … when I speak English or Arabic I say Ramadan … the only time when it would be wrong to convert the word back to its original is when it changes the meaning …

For example … in English we say “grapes” which is from the french word “bunch” - the correct word would have been “raisin” but we give that word the meaning of dried grapes …

To suddenly change the word grape to raisin in English will be confusing and hence wrong … however since in Pakistan people speak both Urdu and Arabic and English it is easy to recognise the word Ramadan and Ramzan and use them in interchange.

Other examples are place names: Bombay and Mumbai - both are acceptable … in Urdu these days the people are saying “so” instead of “phir” … if Urdu is so valuable then why lose those terms? In the past we used to call any “machine” an “ala” … why have we stopped doing that? Languages change and sure enough they can even change back to what they used to be … let’s get over it.

Ramadan Mubarak …

Quoted for epic truth.