Breakfast time condundrums

[GadgetMaster]

You are right. It is confusing and completely wrong but the easy part I do know from where this strange use of language originates.

It is direct a translation from the urdu which doesn't quite work in English but is still used regardless. Open and close is used to describe the restrictions on eating and drinking hence when the fast starts the permission to eat ends or  "closes" (in Urdu).

In the evening the restrictions are lifted or "Opened" (again in Urdu)

I hope that made sense.

[Karlos]

In that case, maybe they shouldn't use the word "fast", as in conjunction with opening and closing it has the opposite sense :-D

[GadgetMaster]

Another common one is  "Reading" salah instead of offering or praying it. Again it is a direct translation from the Urdu where the word reading is quite acceptable. Just the oddities of languages and mistranslations really.

[Karlos]

I got so used to hearing that one, I think I block it out and maybe even use it myself :lol:

[GadgetMaster]

Me too.. Guilty as charged :shrug:

[Karlos]

GadgetMaster wrote:
Me too.. Guilty as charged :shrug:

I never saw that emoticon before :lol: Pajer needs something like that ;-)

[GadgetMaster]

Pajer?? .. shhhh that doesn't exist...  Now that black van man has the details of our  "Ultra secret" laire  :-o

You are right though . there have been some quite nice aditions to the emoticon ..er.. vocabulary here.