>Thanks for starting this thread.

Well, unfortunately I'm not raju, but I hope you won't mind if I accept the thanks offered anyway.

As to the Hindi/Urdu similarities, my Dad enjoyed a trip down memory lane while perusing one of my Hindi textbooks. Urdu was compulsory at his boarding school, in what is now Pakistan, and the phrases he remembered from nearly 60 years ago were indeed aurally indistinguishable from their Hindi equivalents.


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