Slang Story

By Saniya Khan

Oxford,Websters,Chambers are all famous names in the world of vocabulary providers and they have been successfully providing the world with latest words and terms until recently when a wave of slangs came and wiped out their efforts.



Mothers lap is the childs first educational instituition where he or she learns the right's and wrong's,do's and dont's of life,and then there comes schools,colleges and finally university which if I am not wrong besides polishing our technical skills is also teaching us some not so impressive slangs these days,and KU is not any different infact within a few years time student can publish their very own campus dictionary with all the latest slangs.



One of the most cherished sentence of KUrians is "BHAND",which in english means blunder,error,mistake and so on,but in KU it is frequently used by students to describe a person's foolish act either intentionally or unintentionally but the use of this word doesnt end here infact it is a one word that fits all....



Aj ka din waise tou set tha lekin history ki teacher ne buhat pakaya,unki class se bahar janay k liye unhen buhat topi karwayi lekin unhon ne jane nahin diya,magar hum bhi cheetay hain humne bhi unki itni hatayi k tang akar khud hee class se chali gayin...



I know that the above paragraph is absolutely senseless but it was just written to show that how these slangs are used.



Now we are so used to hearing these slangs all day, that we dont even care that accidently we might utter a slang while conversing with our parents,obviously they are not going to punish us for this mistake but they are just going to ask that "we sent you to good instituitions to learn all these slangs and to debase our mother tongue"? and this would be the height of shame for all of us,would'nt it be?