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So now he’s admitting that after only 5-6 years in Indonesia as a child, a couple of Pakistani roommates, and only 3 weeks in Pakistan, he can actually still read Urdu ? Is it believable that’s possible without his continued exposure, speaking and reading the language regularly as an adult ?


17 posted on 06/22/2009 8:26:58 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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Speaking of your Pakistan adventure; was that a British, Kenyan, Indonesian or American passport you traveled on...(sound of crickets).


21 posted on 06/22/2009 8:41:13 PM PDT by dogcaller
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after only 5-6 years in Indonesia as a child

Of course they do not speak Urdu in Indonesia, only in Pakistan and India, since Urdu is essentially Hindi, written with Arabic characters.

31 posted on 06/22/2009 11:14:22 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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