As soon as one hear the cell phone’s sms beap attention get diverted and hands automatically start chasing the mobile in the pocket. Helo, wazup, zup, whr, kia hu raha, kidr, kab ana etc. are the most frequently received sms. Neither it belongs to English nor can i find these words in Urdu Lughat (dictionary). We are approaching 100 million mobile subscribers according to PTA and my gut feeling says more than 95% use roman while writing a text message. About us who have crossed 30s still have some basic knowledge of the language and this might me true for the people in late 20s. I am extremely worried about the generation who are into their teens as they dont have the basic knowledge of the language and remaining is getting deteriorated because of the use of ROMAN.
Primarily the education system is responsible and secondary responsibility is with parents. This has become a common phenomenon to use Minglish (Mix of urdu and english) with kids in schools and at home as well. For instance a teacher asking a student " Baita aaj breakfast kia tha" or a mother calling " sweetu jaldi aao, papa door pe wait kar rahay hain". Remaining has become a victim of cellular growth and cheap sms rates. Now it’s a moral duty to keep your friends informed about every moment of your life through sms. Most of the sms are in Roman and rest of them are suffering from poor quality English (just like mine) .
We as a nation isn’t proud to communicate in our national language. I can’t find any urdu website where i can do blogging in urdu. I don’t write in urdu any more because i can’t type in Urdu over my notebook that means I also feel handicapped. We as a responsible citizens must communicate in urdu and if a software developer reading these line should come up with an urdu blogging website. If possible spend some time with your kids and siblings to ensure that primary language of communication should be urdu. However they should learn English as well to cope with the needs of dynamic environment
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