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Wadiwallah

A blog by iFaqeer
about life, technology and getting by in Silicon Valley

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Urdu Tech News: "The Marriage of Google Mail and Google Talk"  

Back in September, I was invited to join a new blog in Urdu about technical topics. It's at:

http://urdutechnews.blogspot.com/

I haven't been able to contribute to it much. But the other folks are doing good work, if a little slowly. And they're having fun with it! Take the following post; a headline like the one at the top of this post would not be out of the ordinary, right? But Shoaib Safdar has taken that and written pretty much the same thing in Urdu--with very interesting results! I guess it will take a while for us--or me, at least--to get so comfortable with this kind of thing in Urdu to take this kind of thing in my stride. Until then, it's rather endearing; enjoy!

http://urdutechnews.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post.html

I mean, the traditional way to say that would be "GMail aur Google Talk ka milaap", but Shoaib takes it a step further, to "GMail aur Google Talk ka biyaah".

Hey, what can you do! It's a brave new world, this blogosphere; and new ways of expressing ourselves are the whole point, no?
posted on The WadiWallah Blog at 1:04 PM