Adil Najam
A friend sent these to me as examples of Pinglish. Supposedly, they are examples of actual language used in letters and applications of various types. Even if they are not real, they are funny.
A candidate’s application:
“This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ‘typist and an accountant–Male or Female’… As I am both for the past several years and I can handle both, I am applying for the post.”An employee applied for leave as follows:
“Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife, please sanction me one-week leave.”Student writing to headmaster:
“As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I request you to leave me today.”Student writing to teacher:
“I am suffering from fever, please declare holiday to the school.”Letter to boss, requesting leave:
“As my Mother-in-law has expired and I am responsible for it, please grant me 10 days leave.”Opening line in a letter to a friend:
“I am well here and hope you are also in the same well.”
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Def. Pin-glish. For our purpose we will define Pinglish as a particualr variety of ‘Pakistani English’ which emerges when (a) English words are mixed with words of a Pakistani language (usually, but not solely, Urdu); or (b) an English sentence is constructed through the direct and exact translation of a thought in a Pakistani language and in the syntax of the latter, or vice versa; or (c) formal English is made even more uncomfortably formal by merging with the formality of Urdu idiom; or (d) Words in English and any Pakistani language are purposely and purposefully amalgamated for effect; or (e) any other way in which English is ‘Pakistanized’.
(Repost: Originally posted on June 22, 2006)
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Some people are used to say ”Saynce” instead ”Science”
and tablaan,madmaan etc
In terms of spoken Pinglish, there are a number of phonetic issues as well. The letter “w” is often confused with the letter “v”. A wheel, for example, is pronounced as a veel. And sometimes veal is pronounced as Weal. Many Pakistanis often have trouble with blends where two consonants appear together without a vowel in between. The word school is often mispronounced as either “Sakool” or “Iskool”, depending on whether your native tongue is Punjabi or Urdu. Then there are issue with putting the accent on the wrong syllable, making it difficult for non-South Asians to understand the spoken words. For example, the word “engineer” usually gets the accent on the wrong syllable.
@ Dear Commenters,
If you really want to enjoy listening Pinglish, just
zapp around all the Pak TV Free or National channels
you can become “Pinglishist ” there are some pearls and
gems !!
No offense to anyone, but believe me, just watch GEO &
Pak Global, Aag, Aaj, Ary etc , Mr. Beans is just nothing !!
I believe we have a lot of pinglish in the development industry too.
GUI-aan bana di hein
Exception-ien handle nahi hui
Class-ien Check-in karo
few other gems..
1. Aatucmatuc for Automatic.
2. Geniean for Genuiune.
3. Pincil for Pencil.
4. Krunt for Current (electricity)
5. Blueberrian / Strawberrian for Blueberries/ Strawberries (this one I used my self..it’s more convenient ;-)
“oye yar, kaloni may nai “roadain” bun rahi hain
Perhaps the oldest one is “Phulthroo” pherna. (Pull through)
And then we have rata for (rote).
The daily dose of pinglish which we get from “The News”. The following excerpts are from today’s edition only. Most of the contributions are from “our” Lahore correspondents.
Neelam Jabbar Chaudhry said the welfare centres would be established at the villages with a population of 3,000 people
(welfare centre or the village?)
she said, adding that the provincial health department was providing services regarding family welfare through 1,497 family welfare centres, 117 mobile service units, 2,604 mail mobilisers, 54 birth centres and a large number of the LHWs.
(is it mail mobilisers or male mobilisers)
Punjab Secretary Population Welfare Yousaf Nasim Khokhar said the population growth rate could not be reduced as required that?s why the department had appointed mail mobilisers at the level of union councils.
Experts are of the view that smoky vehicles on urban roads are polluting the environment, which is a major contributing factor in the spread of viral diseases (environment , pollution or the vehicles )
He asked coalition partners to share the burden of prevailing crises and not just the government
Saying the PPP had been given the rule under a conspiracy as multiple crises had been unleashed upon the newly-elected government
He criticized the international monetary institutions saying the economy would be in a mess until foreign institutions controlled it (until???)
Manzoor also criticized the dual policies of the PML-N, saying if the PML-Q forward block supported the PML-N government in Punjab then it was considered a right course but on the other hand if PML-Q supported the PPP then hue and cry was raised against the PPP
Earlier, senior minister Raja Riaz in his speech said the country still existed on world’s map due to PPP’s efforts to keep the provinces united.
PPP MPA Nazim Hussain, Lahore chapter presidents Aziz Chan and Sajida Mir, secretary general Lahore Samiullah Khan and other leaders also spoke earlier. (who else spoke earlier?)
The bullet seriously injured Shaukat and he died instantly.
( was he dead or seriously injured?)
while on the other hand they were increasing prices of essential commodities, petrol, gas and power on a daily basis which has literally broken the backbone of the poor and middle class people (really.is it back or back bone)
He said the JI was the only party whose leadership was no accused of corruption and courageous to stand up to America.
She stressed that every citizen, including community leaders, teachers, elected representatives and Ulema should play their due role in controlling population
Dr Muhammad Nafees, the director the Institute of Social and Culture Studies, Punjab University, said that in order to improve the quality of life and to provide better job opportunities to the population, we would have to do control our population
Gujrat University VC Prof Dr. Nizamuddin, Population Welfare DG Abdul Rauf, Dr Ayesha and others also addressed the seminar whereas, Punjab Secretary Qazi Afaq Hussain, department officials of the department and media representatives were also present on the occasion.(whereas?)
He said beautification of roadsides from The Mall to Jallo Park had also started.
He said security would be ensured and construction of boundary wall of Jallo Park was also being started.
He said 50-km long track road of bicycle riding, badminton and volleyball courts, Scotties, cricket and other sports were also available in Jallo Park(how is cricket and other sports become “available”?)
He told in this beautification plan, PHA, District Government, Irrigation and C&W Departments were playing their role
He said this on-job training had been initiated as a new experience which would help the officials professionally.
Lady councillor Shabnam Shahzadi Butt, while criticising the policies of Mian Amer, said that she had submitted development schemes worth Rs 4 million during the previous budget and all the schemes were approved but only an amount of Rs 1 million was released for the development of her area.(her area?..means/?)
He said this showed his previous conduct and therefore he does not deserve concession of bail at this stage
Justice Bhinder observed that it was necessary for the raiding party to seek search warrants before conducting the raid from the area magistrate
The judge said usually police justified ignoring the procedure laid down in the law
Muhammad Raffat Pasha has said the recruitment of newly patrolling officers is purely on strict merit which has been conducted by the Federal Public Service Commission.
He advised them to perform their duties as sacred purpose and pay full respect to road users.
He said the Motorway Police were using the same modern instrument as those of other developed countries
Peter Sehartlic further said he would be happy if any of your staff worked with me and we should share professional skills with each other
He said that with the introduction of new courses, not only better jobs opportunities would be offered to students but they could also be self-employed.
He also directed reviewing of the technical courses of India and China and introduced these courses in TEVTA keeping in view the requirements of industries.
The petitioner alleged that all was being done to accommodate Dr. Abdul Hafeez who was not eligible for the post but a blue eyed of secretary health.
He said Dr. Hafeez belonged to the discipline of medicine and had been performing his duties in that capacity for 2005.
He said departmental authorities received certain complaints against petitioner, therefore, they had no alternate expect to get rid of petitioner.
The problem mostly is that the concerned staff is negligent or influenced by seniors to ignore minor irregularities.
Social workers and civil society activists regret that petty issues are not being seriously taken up by the government
Heavy traffic using under passes at Lahore Canal is a serious threat to the life and safety of small vehicles
The government should however before taking strict action, first warn encroachers for a week. Some government official should be made responsible for encroachments in each area.
Increasing bad governance has led to immunity from accountability and even media reports on misrule are taken lightly and dismissed without contradicting them.
Despite committing corruption at the highest level, the bureaucracy was at least taken to task on media reports.
MASSIVE wall chalking on boundary walls of public sector colleges, which increased soon after the government decided to lift the ban on student unions, is being employed by several rival unions to publicise their control zones.
CITY witnessed light and scattered rain on Friday and the Met office has forecast a partly cloudy weather with chances thunderstorm and rain in the provincial metropolis for the next 24 hours. Met office said a well marked seasonal low lied over Northwestern Balochistan. Monsoon current was reaching Punjab and Kashmir upto 7,000 feet which might result in rain. Minimum temperature recorded on Friday was 27C whereas maximum reached 36C.
The court bailiff, Nasir Habib went to Imran’s house in Layyah and recovered the boy while the judge, after hearing the case statements from both sides, handed over the child to his mother.
The accused Imran Sajid was arrested by the Liaqatabad police in August, 2005, on charges of murder of a nine-year-old boy Hamza Shahzad by strangulated him after committing sodomy. The judge freed the accused after the prosecution failed to prove the allegations against him.
On June 26, he exchanged some harsh words with a tea stall owner, Imran of Chunian, over a monetary dispute. In the meantime, accused Imran pushed the victim into a hot milk pot. As a result, Tariq received severe burns and he was shifted to the Jinnah Hospital and later to the Mayo Hospital where he died of burns on Friday morning. His body was removed to morgue while the police arrested accused Imran after registering a case against him.
ever heard people saying FUSSCLASS in urdu!!! when it actually is First class!