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Check out my article DEATH OF THE URDU SCRIPT: Can Microsoft and Twitter save the dying Urdu nastaliq script from the hegemony of the Western alphabet and an overbearing Arab cousin? Investigating this piece took weeks upon weeks and led to endless rejection at the hands of tech corporations and then media conglomerates. None of whom wanted to work with me on this (except Twitter). In the end I had to go solo and out-of-pocket. Whatever, I love language, and I love Urdu. So share it. I hope people that love or care for Urdu get a little angry about this, because if this was happening to Arabic or Turkish really any other language with some cash behind it -- well no, this would never have happened to other languages. Its just Urdu people who have their language turned into something else and are like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. https://medium/writers-on-writing/9ce935435d90
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 02:39:21 +0000

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