In this lesson of our Pashto mini-course, we focus on one of the most important and beginner-friendly grammar rules in Pashto: using “Da … de” to say “This is …”. Mastering this structure is a key milestone in How to speak Pashto , because it allows you to describe objects, places, and people from day one. In English, we say, “This is a house.” In Urdu, the equivalent is “Yeh ghar hai.” In Pashto, the same idea is expressed as “Da kor de.” Here, “Da” means this, “kor” means house, and “de” (pronounced like day but with a soft 'D' as in fa th er) works like is. This sentence structure is extremely common in everyday Pashto conversations and forms the foundation of Pashto language basics. Pashto also has masculine and feminine nouns , just like Urdu. For masculine nouns, we commonly use “de”, while feminine nouns often use “da” depending on context and dialect. At the beginner level, focusing on commonly used masculine examples helps learners build confidence ...
Here is what I have been thinking lately. 💭✨ So first start with the changes in the website.
I changed the URL of the website from https://miseenabyme07.blogspot.com to https://mise-en-scene101.blogspot.com. So here is the backstory. I thought that it wouldn't be much problem and only the domain name would be changed. But as I changed it, it made all the links to the old posts that I shared on social media redundant/dysfunctional. Similarly, in the browser, the old URL ran into a 404 error. 🚫💻
However, the situation came under control quickly. I made quick posts on LinkedIn (where my profile has the blog's URL) and mentioned the change on the header of the site and elsewhere. 💪
Why did I do this? 🤔 Well, when I started my blog in 2015 I named it My personal blog. One of my colleagues at COMSATS University, Islamabad (where I worked then) said, it is so generic and you are a writer, come up with a unique name. So I changed the blog title to Mise En Abyme meaning Placed in the abyss. It is an artistic technique, according to Wikipedia, “It’s the technique of placing a copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence.” 🎨🔄
See an example of Mise En Abyme, here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_abyme#/media/File:Screenshot_Recursion_via_vlc.png
But the term ‘Placed in the Abyss’ has negative religious connotations. I changed the blog title again to Mise En Scene. But the old domain lingered. Up until now, I changed the domain/URL as well so it aligns with the blog’s Title, i.e., Mise En Scene.🎬✨
One reason I named it Mise En Scene was that this term belongs to Art and in the last century or so applied to photography and filmmaking. As I have a Master’s degree in Media Production (which had the same curriculum as filmmaking programs at other universities), I secretly think of making a movie one day. 🎥🌟
Another thing I added to the website is a translate widget. It is very helpful for people who are not very conversant with English so they can translate the website content into their mother tongue. I checked it with Arabic and it translated it pretty well. You can check in your language as well to see how accurately it translates.🈯🌏
One page I want to add is about my introduction and everything related to me. As some of you might be interested to know due to some specific reasons. I was targeted with a hate campaign in the last decade. I didn’t have any platform where I could address this issue (and I didn’t know the exact magnitude of this smear campaign). 📝🛡️
You may have noticed that the quotes in the ticker keep changing. I added this ticker myself though I don’t have much knowledge of programming except a little know-how of HTML and CSS. But as I worked in a software house before so I had a basic understanding of how websites work, backend, frontend, etc. 🔧💡💻 Rest of the credit goes to Chat GPT.
Thank you for reading! If you have any thoughts or suggestions, feel free to share them in the comments. 😊
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