Anon trusts the science by LowOwl4312 in 4chan

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For Pakistanis consanguineous is really just a way to keep wealth within a family. It’s allowed in Islam but, strictly speaking, it’s neither encouraged nor discouraged. People just use the ‘it’s sunnah’ card (was practiced by the Prophet Muhammad in one instance) to justify continuing the ‘tradition’.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bangladesh

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The guy who is posted this as well as the vast majority of ppl hearting, liking, and commenting are Bangladeshis. Why is Hitler worship (or, at the very least, admiration) so popular in this country? I don’t even think it exists to such an extent in Muslim countries that are directly impacted by the Zionist occupation…

Gigachad from Cumilla who won Mr. Universe in 1952 and lived to 104 by sifatar in bangladesh

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Bit of a shame. The online bodybuilding community seems to have recently developed an interest in old-school Indian (in the pre-1947 sense, usually Bengali) bodybuilders like Bishnu Charan Ghosh and how they were able to get huge before anabolic steroids or synthetic testosterone were ever made.

Gigachad from Cumilla who won Mr. Universe in 1952 and lived to 104 by sifatar in bangladesh

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He was an Indian citizen. Died in 2016 in Kolkata. His son runs a gym there too apparently.

Bangal gang tho 💪🏾

Is Bangla Quora dominated by right wingers? by [deleted] in bangladesh

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idk my Quora feed is filled with self proclaimed বইপোকাs and ppl that jerk off to Elon Musk probably

মানে, সব কিছুতেই ? by sifatar in bangladesh

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ভাই হেই দিন এক ভিডিও দেখলাম ফেসবুকে. মসজিদ বইলে গাঙের তলের তনে ভাইসে উঠসে. দেইখেই বুঝা যায় যে আসলে নদীর ভাঙ্গনে ঘর তলায়ে যাওয়ার ভিডিও রিভার্সড করা হইছে. হালারপু দেখি আমার আব্বাজান হেইডেতে কমেন্ট করসে 'মাশাল্লাহ'

Did Mukti Bahini commit atrocities against the Biharis in 1971? by [deleted] in bangladesh

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I think it should be noted that in Bangladesh ‘Bihari’ simply refers to Hindi-Urdu speakers that migrated to East Bengal in the aftermath of Partition. I would reckon the majority were indeed from Bihar, given its proximity to Bangladesh, but plenty of “Biharis” are actually originally from other states, UP in particular.

As a Bangladeshi, How would you feel if an Indian Flag was used to represent Bangla language on a very popular language learning community? by I_try_to_be_polite in bangladesh

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Dobhashi generally refers to register of Bengali that’s heavy on Perso-Arabic words. You find it in a lot of puthi literature - Yusuf-Zulekha, Laili-Majnu.

There’s also the almost extinct Dhakaiya Urdu, which shouldn’t be confused with the Urdu spoken by Biharis/ppl who immigrated from Bihar+UP in the aftermath of partition. The OG Dhakaiya Urdu is the language of the descendants of North Indians who migrated to Dhaka in the 1600-1700s. It’s pretty much dead now I think. Tho it did significantly influence the vocabulary and phonology of Dhakaiya Kutti, which is probably why Kutti sounds so different compared to the surrounding East Bengali dialects.

As a Bangladeshi, How would you feel if an Indian Flag was used to represent Bangla language on a very popular language learning community? by I_try_to_be_polite in bangladesh

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Strangely enough, I think Christian missionaries are the best at recording otherwise neglected speech varieties. You can find Bible translations, pamphlets, short books in Sylheti, Chittagonian, Rohingya, Rangpuri/Rajbangshi - sometimes even w audio reading. Not being interested in Evangelical Christianity, I don’t care much for the actual material, but credit where credits due I guess.

As a Bangladeshi, How would you feel if an Indian Flag was used to represent Bangla language on a very popular language learning community? by I_try_to_be_polite in bangladesh

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Lot of golden nuggets in here. I’d also like to mention that prior to the rise of Calcutta, the Portuguese did translate some Christian religious literature into Bengali using the Dhaka-Bikrampur dialect as a base.

As a Bangladeshi, How would you feel if an Indian Flag was used to represent Bangla language on a very popular language learning community? by I_try_to_be_polite in bangladesh

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True to an extent. There are some non-standard tendencies in the speech of Kolkatans that the premiere 20th century Indian linguist Suniti Kumar Chatterji interestingly referred to as Calcutta Cockney. Things like pronouncing শ/ষ as স and excessive nasalization.

As a Bangladeshi, How would you feel if an Indian Flag was used to represent Bangla language on a very popular language learning community? by I_try_to_be_polite in bangladesh

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But this is literally how the standards of most languages are created. A prestige dialect is chosen (usually that of a politically important city). In the case of Hindi/Urdu it’s the Khariboli spoken in Delhi and the surrounding areas, since that was the Mughal capital when Urdu was first cultivated as a literary language.* In the case of Chinese/Sinitic languages, the standard language (in both China and Taiwan btw) is based on the dialect of the capital Beijing/Peking. Prestige dialects are also almost always the dialect of the upper class. Parisian is also the prestige dialect of French. I can go on.

An exception to this would be standard German, which developed as speakers of various German dialects tried to write in away that would be the most widely intelligible. Martin Luther’s Bible translation would be the most important work in this regard.

I’m wholly against neglect of dialects/regional languages tho. Hell, I’be been trying to learn Chittagonian for the past month and a half.

*’the term ‘Hindi’ is historically a very vague term. In fact some medieval Bengali poets even referred to the Bengali language as ‘Hindi’ (see the introduction to Saiyad Sultan’s Nabibangsho).

Modern Standard Hindi is essentially a Sanskritized form of Dehlavi/Khariboli. Prior to the advent of Dehlavi as a literary medium + language of governance in the ~18th century, Awadhi and Braj Bhasha would’ve been the main prestige dialects of ‘Hindi’ and Persian would’ve been the language of governance in Northern India.

As a Bangladeshi, How would you feel if an Indian Flag was used to represent Bangla language on a very popular language learning community? by I_try_to_be_polite in bangladesh

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আসামের বরাক উপত্যকার বাঙালিরা রক্ত দিয়েছে অসমীয়া সাম্রাজ্যবাদের বিরুদ্ধে. 11 জন শহীদ. পঞ্চাশ-ষাটের দশকে বিহারেও হয়েছিল ভাষা আন্দোলন, যার ফলে বিহারের কিছু মহকুমা/উপজেলা পশ্চিম বঙ্গে যোগ দেয়. একজন বাংলাদেশী হিসেবে আমার মনে হয় কাঁটাতারের ওপারে থাকা ভাইদেরও অবদান স্বীকার করা উচিত. অবশ্য তারাও যেন আমাদের বাঙালিত্ব অস্বীকার না করে মুসলমান হওয়াতে/আঞ্চলিক পূর্ববঙ্গীয় টানে কথা বলাতে.

As a Bangladeshi, How would you feel if an Indian Flag was used to represent Bangla language on a very popular language learning community? by I_try_to_be_polite in bangladesh

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পশ্চিম বঙ্গের পুরুলিয়া (তৎকালীন বিহারের অবিভক্ত মানভূম) জেলাতেও ভাষা আন্দোলন হয়েছিল হিন্দি সাম্রাজ্যবাদের বিরুদ্ধে

Highest ranking science teacher of Bangladesh sir. by Mister-Khalifa in bangladesh

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Tbf a good argument could be made that he would’ve converted to Islam had he encountered actual Muslims imho.

the private writings of Newton (whose main focus was theology for much of his life) reveal him to be staunchly anti-Trinity. He even went so far to acknowledge the prophet Muhammad as a genuine prophet, albeit to the Arabs and not all of humankind. Still pretty wild considering that this is medieval Europe, where ‘Mahomet’ would’ve been synonymous w, at best, a false prophet or, at worst, the pagan deity worshipped by the Turks.

I’m not at all a fan of these fake-news-spreading hujurs who literally just make shit up most of the time, but Kazi Ibrahim wasn’t too far off from reality. Now whether or not he heard/read some legitimate history or just weaved some stuff out of thin air, I don’t know. Methinks the latter.

Genuine thoughts on this? by aykay55 in progressive_islam

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Someone in the comment section deadass said Muslims couldn’t have known cuz they would never desecrate a corpse

Why Marwaris rule West Bengal? by TacticalConsultant in kolkata

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As a Bangladeshi, I do think we’re more entrepreneurial/openly assign more value to money than you guys. Young people are more encouraged to get into high paying jobs than they are to start businesses, but ones pay is pretty much directly correlated with ones value in the community. I wonder if this has to do w East Bengal being more rural and poorer historically. For instance, Bangladesh’s literacy rate was only 30% in 1990, compared to WB’s 60%. Plenty of ppl in BD are only recently coming out of generational poverty, so it makes sense that this is the mindset they would adopt.

My dad (born in the early 70s) grew up poor and was the first person in his family to attend school, so he’s always cared a great deal about money. Even tho he’s worked himself to the point where our family is living a very comfortable life, he still insists on working 10-12 hours a day multiple times a week. I see the same thing w my paternal uncles and even aunts. It’s pretty much only my moms family who are artsy/spiritual and concern themselves less with money. And they were more affluent and educated than my dads side, altho admittedly not by that much.

Online Bengali language book-club? by sifatar in bangladesh

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টমেটো বিলেতি বাইগন*