06-22-2007, 09:32 PM
good turn of discussion. While I will let experts throw more light, I just wanted to interject this part.
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Of course it will be hard to find abusive words in the traditional written literature, but in popular lixicon of North, almost all abusive words are exclusively of Farsi/Arabic origin, starting with harAm-jAdA/jAdI for b@st@rd, which literally in Farsi means born in harAm - the islamic concept.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Did we get influenced by the British, or did we influence the British?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Of course it will be hard to find abusive words in the traditional written literature, but in popular lixicon of North, almost all abusive words are exclusively of Farsi/Arabic origin, starting with harAm-jAdA/jAdI for b@st@rd, which literally in Farsi means born in harAm - the islamic concept.