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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 3h

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Oct 17: A song from 5 years ago In just 5 years, this song has cemented the badge shown as a clear statement of identity - see "35" on anything and you know the person's ethnogeographic affiliation. #Aotearoa www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOy...

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Ka Hao - 35 (feat. Rob Ruha)

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 4h

Yes! I've long held nastaliq to be the most beautiful script there is. Learning it is strange because while Hindi & Urdu diverge A LOT in higher registers, at beginner level they're still basically a digraphia. So I'm learning to read a language I already more or less know. Humbling!

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 5h

It really is - I might soon be able to use ANOTHER 'dictionary' I've had for ~15yrs and barely even opened 😂

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 7h

What's the problem? A guaranteed lifetime cure for any iron deficiency, stop complaining. 🤣

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 7h

"Ultra pretty" - exactly! The beauty of that script is a big part of why I want to learn it

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 14h

In every form of dance, it's that aerobic aspect that staggers me. How dancers manage to convey emotions through gestures and facial expressions while in the middle of an extreme workout leave me in awe.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 14h

Specifically, it helps me with reverse engineering. when I know what a word/phrase in the TY book is from Hindi, that book helps me make sense of the medials especially. I've made more progress in a few hours with it than in weeks before without it. Shame aboutUrdu's Schrödinger's vowels, but 😁

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15h

The script is a modified form of the Arabic script. The problem is the language is not Arabic.😁

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15h

It's a game-changer, a lifesaver. I have "Teach Yourself Beginners Urdu Script" but the format is weird and the print quality in both the paper book and PDF is not great. Using the book you gave me along with it is transformational. So many anas have dropped It's nearly a rupee! 😁THANK YOU

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15h

That's an, um, interesting translation. The phrase simply says, "I am very happy" - in Roman "main bahut khush hoon", more or less. (vid. T.E. Lawrence on transliteration)

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15h

In transliteration 🙄 In one lesson "parega"cane up. I told her it got me singing "Jo vada kiya vo" but she firmly insisted that "parega" & "paDega" are COMPLETELY different. I know there are a lot of REAL differences between the two, can't waste time/mental energy on that bakvaas while learning.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15h

I've paused my Urdu lessons with a tutor because learning to read is taxing both neurons to the max AND she would INSIST these two are not the same at all (spoiler: they're ~identical ) So, a quick poll: Which version of this one phrase (describing me after 15 hrs work today) looks prettier? 😊

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 17h

I should add that I have the Platts app on my phone and have used the website often, so using the dead tree copy is simply a celebration of being able to read enough final form Urdu letters to get my money's worth from something I bought two decades ago😂

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 17h

Due to my CP, I read only digital books, except for 20 or so (mostly Indic) dictionaries & language textbooks. One of them has sat unused for 20 years because while ’2 out of 3 ain't bad', the 1 I can't read is the 1 that the entries are listed in. 🤦‍♂️ I now feel like I might FINALLY get to use it💪🏾

A copy of
A Dictionary of Urdū Classical Hindī and English by John T. Platts

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 18h

Tell me you're an old Arsenal fan without telling me you're an old Arsenal fan 😆

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Thinking about hoisehold cleaners what comes to mind when you think about Ajax?

Dennis Bergkamp

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 22h

So, I was utterly wrong about Hungarian (quelle surprise!), and partly wrong about Basque 🤦‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of languages by type of grammatical genders - Wikipedia

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 23h

And some have many, MANY more - Basque & Hungarian are two I can think of, iirc

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 23h

"male", grammatical gender.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 23h

For this ullu da pattha learning to read Urdu is VERY hard. So being able to grok all but 2 of the words on this list by reading enough letters to see words I know in Hindi was exciting. That the key to deciphering the other 2 was in a book gifted to me by an award-wining translator? Priceless!🙏😍

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

TFW when it's 11:03 and only 9.8C (aka .2° below absolute zero) IN SPRING and you remember you have Shin Ramyeon in the pantry. Thank you #kDrama for 13 years of the perfect COLD weather food🙏🍜

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

So I married an Anti-Fan for Tax Purposes

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Hunt for the Wilderpeople for Tax Purposes

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kdrama news @kdramanews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

News flash: kdramas are not made for the U.S. public. In fact, most films and tv shows around the world aren’t for the U.S. public but for the domestic audiences.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

The Interweb YouTubes are full of 'experts' droning on about how French English is, but sentences like this one I just saw here on bsky show that when the fancy French costumery is stripped away, there's solid Germanic bones beneath. Ic þancie þe, freonde!

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

As he often does, he's released the song in both Māori and English. My VERY limited Māori tells me that at least the first verse is pretty much an exact equivalent in both www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyOr...

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Stan Walker - Home (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Stan Walker

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I would expect nothing less from a Prisoner Island , it's not SUPPOSED to be a cheap getaway 😁

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

ost a character you think is really cool and give no explanation why

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

It is here too. I can't drive, so keep a current passport for exactly that reason.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Oct 16: A song you'd love to hear another artist perform. From its Panjabi original singer to a modern Panjabi star - to have my life's anthem sung by Diljit Dosanjh would definitely elicit "kya kamaal hai!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbu...

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Pyaasa - Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaaye To

YouTube video by Tommydan333

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Oct 16: A song with a music video you love My situation in life has meant I've only left here twice. This video reminds me it's not entirely outside the realms of possibility that there may be worse places to be stuck. #Aotearoa www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWhA...

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Stan Walker - Aotearoa ft. Ria Hall, Troy Kingi, Maisey Rika

YouTube video by StanWalkerVEVO

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge October 16: Song about your (dream) job That a song exists about my job is surprising. However, given that the company I work for is >90% Panjabi, a Bhangra cover would be AWESOME😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN9...

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Call A Taxi

YouTube video by Ini Kamoze - Topic

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Weeks of Anki practice has seen my grasp of Urdu final letter forms start to coalesce (as amorphously as nastaliq itself) so I'm starting on initial & medial forms. Then I discover that kāf ain't satisfied with ONLY 4 forms, but has to have SIX, courtesy of a sadistic Urdu version of a matra

UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

That moustache would be derided as insultingly pathetic if seen in any South Indian film 😁

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I love there's a movie about Tenzing Norgay, giving him the credit he and his people are owed. BUT Hiddleston's Hillary sounds (a) nothing like a Kiwi & (b) nothing AT ALL like the real Kiwi whose voice was a constant part of every Kiwi's life for decades🙄 Kiwi accent? STILL Mission impossible

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Capitalisation is one of the things that always trips me up with transliterated Hindi - especially title case. Devanagari characters also have only one 'case' so applying English rules for Romanised transliteration is confusing.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

My idiolect was VERY strongly shaped by being raised by a bibliophile sole parent father whose L1 was Indian English, who learned Urdu for 10 years at the school he lived in & whose grandmother was 100% South Asian (most likely Panjabi). This means that EVERYTHING I write is A-I generated. 😆🤦‍♂️

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

For some VERY weird reason I can't reply, but AMEN. I learned the keystroke combo Alt+ 0151 decades ago, and now that personal idiosyncrasy of my writing condemns me.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

TFW you can strike a blow against The Algorithm (redundancy?) with a playlist: If the last 2 years are repeated, my next YouTube #Music quarterly review of my listening will get both the language and consequently the country of origin of most of these WRONG. A small win for meatsack wetware🙂

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

For a #MusicChallenge post today someone recommended Nessun Dorma as a song that deserves a rock interpretation. So here's a version that rocks, along with a reminder that #kDrama #kMovie actor Oh Jeong Se NEVER sleeps in his performances.

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Before I get back into my #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama PTW I'm crowdsourcing my Hindavi PTW priority list: I'd love recs for top 3 choices in each of the two categories shown (bonus points if sung to the tune of la cucaracha) #Hindi #Urdu #Movies

A list of 20 South Asian films, 10 labelled first watch, ten labelled rewatch
FIRST WATCH
Daawat-e-Ishq
Chupke Chupke
Aar Paar (1954)
Hamraaz (1967)
Shatranj ke khiladi
Hindi Medium
Noorie
Shakespeare Wallah
Kaagaz ke Phool
Golmaal (1979)

REWATCH
Aaja Nachle
Seeta aur Geeta
Waqt (1965)
Hum Kisi se Kum Naheen
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Jodhaa Akbar
Salaam-e-Ishq
Mughal-e-Azam
Tere Ghar ke Saamne
Swades

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UncleRobin @unnclerobin.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 @ismua.bsky.social Day 1️⃣5️⃣ A song that deserves a rock interpretation (this anemic feel-good pop cover drains the angry heat of the song, but does show how adaptations are possible) www.youtube.com/watch?v=unOq...

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Coke Studio Season 11| Hum Dekhenge

YouTube video by Coke Studio Pakistan

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