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Tuesday July 2, 2013 Daily Blog John W Previous Blogs
Dear Friends
An interesting experience yesterday....as I asked some 20 Pakistan computer shop owners in Chong King Mansion, Tsim Sha Tsui, if they could help me type several bits of Urdu to make a few corrections for the Urdu edition of "Doctor Jesus" of which the printer has already prepared a sample copy
At
every one of the 20 shops I heard the same thing: I don't use Urdu....I don't
have a computer than can type Urdu
...I don't have any Urdu software for sale....I don't know how to type Urdu....I
use English
Seems that all the Urdu newspapers, magazines, books and websites that originate in HK are produced by a handful of scholars. Most Pakistanis can read Urdu, but they can't type it (and less and less frequently write it?)
This surely has implications for their cultural future
Just checked Google...seems my observation correct. See Dying Urdu
One
good thing the Church has done in many parts of the world is to help various
cultures preserve their own languages.
Many missionaries have even compiled the first-ever dictionaries in many
languages.
May
the Urdu language's survival be promoted by the Church in Pakistan and elsewhere
And...I'll persevere with the Urdu Dr Jesus project, because around a third of
the Pakistani inmates in HK's prison's cannot read English....they are from very
poor parts of Pakistan
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Update
re A-Yih, 60 year old Chinese woman fighting two year battle with bone cancer:
Yesterday morning at 10am she went home to Heaven.
May her prayers in Heaven help us this side of the veil.
Sincere sympathy to her family
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My
"Foreigner in Hong Kong" column in today's Ming
Pao newspaper.
Theme: why June 26 is International Anti-Drug Day
Thank you for a prayer
God bless!
John W
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