# Pakistan - better check your spelling. And then check it again.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pakistan-better-check-your-spelling-and-then-check-it-again/599281>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 11, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pakistan-better-check-your-spelling-and-then-check-it-again/599281 "2011-10-11T10:56:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![wisernow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@wisernow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wisernow)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pakistan-better-check-your-spelling-and-then-check-it-again/599281/61 "2011-10-17T20:54:36Z")

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> [@AK84](#):
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> Newsflash. Pakistan has had a democratic government for at least the last 10 years.

Are you sure? This is what [wikepedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan) has to say -

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> The Pakistani military has played an influential role in mainstream politics throughout Pakistan’s history, with military presidents ruling from 1958–71, 1977–88 and from 1999–2008.

That makes it only three years since Benazir was assassinated.

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**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pakistan-better-check-your-spelling-and-then-check-it-again/599281/62 "2011-10-17T22:21:51Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Can you say that in Urdu? Preferably using the dialect spoken in Rawalpindi.

Why does that matter even the slightest bit if it was intentional? Let’s say it was completely intentional. How does that justify the response to anyone who isn’t a jackass?

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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pakistan-better-check-your-spelling-and-then-check-it-again/599281/63 "2011-10-17T22:28:03Z")

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> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#):
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> Why does that matter even the slightest bit if it was intentional? Let’s say it was completely intentional. How does that justify the response to anyone who isn’t a jackass?

Once more, with feeling:

_ **NOBODY HERE IS SAYING THAT THE RESPONSE THIS SCHOOLGIRL RECEIVED FOR WHAT SHE WROTE WOULD HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WHETHER SHE WROTE IT INTENTIONALLY OR NOT.** _

Some of us just happen to be interested in the side-issue of trying to figure out the probabilities on the error vs. intentional question.

Because apart from that, there’s not really much to discuss here, now that we all know that we’re all on the same page when it comes to disliking tyrannical demands for fundamentalist ideological correctness in what is supposed to be education.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pakistan-better-check-your-spelling-and-then-check-it-again/599281/64 "2011-10-17T22:28:17Z")

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You got that out of my post? Talk about reading between the lines…

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