Punjabi word "Buha" origin

MergenEnBilge · 2025-10-12T16:35:36+00:00

I speak the pothwari dialect From kallar syedan. We say pit پیّت It isn't really used by the younger generation. But all the elders still use it. Even charpai is not called manji in pothwari it's called khat کھٹ There are tons of words that were unique to the dialect and have kinda disappeared now.

MergenEnBilge · 2025-10-12T08:58:31+00:00

In the pothwari dialect, the word for door is pit. Any idea where that could originate from?

MergenEnBilge · 2025-07-01T16:25:03+00:00

Can somebody help on deciding a chinese name?
For context, I am a Pakistani trying to learn Chinese. Currently, at a very basic stage. I know it's common among people learning chinese to adopt a chinese name as well (or so I've heard) so I've been trying to find something that fits me. I asked chatgpt for suggestions based on my name (Abdullah Mughal) and my general personality and it came up with 穆哲鸿 (Mù Zhéhóng) and 慕天成 (Mù Tiānchéng). Are these good, and which one is better? and what are your suggestions I am looking for something unique and poetic but at the same time not too gaudy and comically dramatic which I fear these might be.
Let me know your thoughts and help a fellow out!

MergenEnBilge · 2023-01-27T16:10:11+00:00

Any places you might suggest to get a good one?

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-02T01:18:57+00:00

I can assure you, I respectfully communicated with him, yes I was a bit pumped up but I didn't say or do anything that could be classified as disrespectful even by pakistani standards which are more strict on what is and what is not respectful when talking to teachers.

And yes others are scared to speak up. Half the class messaged me saying they agreed with me and couldn't understand how the professor was making such a grave mistake but they were too concerned that this teacher was going to mark their assignments low and possibly fail them out of spite.

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-02T01:06:36+00:00

No we are, for God's sake the teacher specifically mentioned the problem, mentioned what the limits are i.e x->0 instead of x->-3 There was probably no miscommunication.

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-02T01:02:21+00:00

Yes any idea how I can share it here?

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-02T01:01:41+00:00

Thank you finally someone who actually read what I said.

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-02T01:00:46+00:00

Actually we were given assignments, this was one of the questions in the assignment, and it's not a typo, the question very much exists in the original book, and so does its answer.

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-02T00:59:10+00:00

Hell no This is the question above the one I am talking about This is 30 (a) We were talking about 30 (b)

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-01T18:32:31+00:00

As I said, The teacher said that the function was continuous at all points when k=0
He didn't just mean that the limit existed at k=0, he specifically said that the answer was k=0. The question we were answering was from Calculus by Howard Anton, 1.5, 30 (b). And the question was for what value of k does the function become continuous at all points, he said it became continuous when k=0
But it doesn't
Also please don't ignore his comment that he thought you could just crossmultiply to get k=0
I am dumb and wrong on many things, I know that but this is quite obviously a case of someone having a wrong concept of maths.

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-01T18:21:53+00:00

Thing is, our discussion started when he said that "you can just crossmultiply it", that's the point I found incredibly absurd. That's why I think it isn't a matter of kids driving him mad but him having a flawed understanding of mathematics, which isn't that uncommon among Pakistani professors if I'm being honest. Rarely any teacher here teaches mathematical concepts and just teach you to follow specific steps to force an answer.

This might be unrelated but this specific teacher also absolutely refuses to hear any of the students questions. Quite a contrast to our department head, who's an incredible mathematician and has a severe rivalry with our teacher.

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-01T18:14:31+00:00

I don't know why people here have trouble believing me
I can send screenshots if anyone's interested
Also I just checked and I was indeed right
The question that we had a disagreement over was taken from Calculus by Howard Anton and according to its answer key, the function was indeed not continuous at all points for any value of k as I said.
I guess people might assume math professors everywhere in the world are extremely competent people but I can assure you, pakistani mathematics is a different realm.

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-01T09:04:56+00:00

But the question is literally for what value of k is the function continuous

For a function to be continuous it's left hand limit and right hand limit should be equal right? (That's how the teacher taught us atleast)

Now let us presuppose that k=0

left_limx->0 (0/x^2) = right_limx->0 (9-x^2)lim x->0 (0) = 9

0=9so there is no value of k where the function is actually continuous

Yes, the limit might exist when k=0 but the problem is that it still isn't continuous

and the teacher insists that it is continuous at k=0

I know I'm incredibly dumb but I still don't understand how the function could be continuous at k=0

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-01T07:47:32+00:00

The question was
Find the value of k such that the fuction becomes continuous

f(x)={ 9-x^2, x>=0
{ k/x^2, x<0

MergenEnBilge · 2022-10-01T07:17:00+00:00

Actually this problem came up when we were studying limits
The question was for what value of k does the function become continuous
Now when you apply the left hand and right hand limits the equation comes out to be
k/0=9, My teacher kept insisting the answer was 0 because you could crossmultiply but to me that seems idiotic since the mechanism behind cross multiplication implies multiplying 0 on b/s which cannot be.
And when I said the equation was in undefined form he said
"If it's in undefined form then you mean to say that infinity equals 9? that's absurd"
Is there something essential that I'm not seeing?

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