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Urdu Language Style & Guidelines #3
by Jennifer Janin http://www.danielpipes.org/6208/urdu-language-style-guidelines Subject: Urdu Language Style & Guidelines #3 To the Urdu Service – here and overseas: Please read & adopt the following style & editorial policies. Questions welcomed. Talking about how we talk about / to Muslims: The editors & I have come up with the following guidelines on usage of words & phrases related to terrorism & violence: Islamic terrorists: DO NOT USE. Instead use simply: terrorist Terrorism/ terrorist: AVOID OVERUSE. Islamic Fundamentalism/ Muslim Fundamentalists: AVOID. Islamist: NOT NECESSARY Muslim Extremists: NOT NECESSARY. Extremist serves well. Pronunciation/transliteration of a few very common "newsy" names: Richard Holbrooke: A good chunk of Urdu media has been pronouncing/transliterating the name of the US envoy as ہال بروک or ہالبروک. But the correct pronunciation and Urdu spellings are ہول بروک, which should be adopted from now on. Hugo Chavez: Correct pronunciation of the name of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez is اوُگو چاویس. Here are some more names that are commonly mispronounced: Manouchehr Mottaki (Iran minister for foreign affairs):چہر متکی منو not متقی. Angela Merkel (German Chancellor): آنگلا میرکل Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (NATO SG): یاپ دا ہوپ سکیفر CORRECT SPELLING of the Urdu word karrawai (operation, process, proceeding, execution) The style committee has settle on: two R's کارروائی (RR) instead of single Rکاروائی (R). Even though you often see Rکاروائی in the newspapers, most, if not all, dictionaries use the RR and there is no entry for the single R. And when you search the web the RR spelling is almost 5 times more common that the single R. Thanks & cheers, Jennifer receive the latest by email: subscribe to daniel pipes' free mailing list |
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