Adil Najam
One of my favorite post ‘categories’ on ATP is something we call ‘Pinglish.’ While we have not been able to post as many things under this category as we had hoped to, I have enjoyed putting together these posts on ‘Pinglish, Urdish or Engdu?‘, on ‘GanDeri’, and on more.
I just received from Pervaiz Munir [...]

Adil Najam
The headline used for this photograph by the Daily Times was just too good not to reproduce above.
I do not know if this qualifies as Pinglish or not but the typo - ‘over’ instead of ‘our’; the misplaced space in ‘Friend Ship’; and the grammar slippage in ‘with Pak-China’ are so very charming [...]

Owais Mughal
ATP has been talking about Pinglish in its various varieties (here, here, here and here). This is not about Pinglish, but about something quite close to it.
Last time I was in Pakistan, I noticed a few public notices which made me smile. Even though I’ve grown up seeing these all my life, they somehow [...]

Adil Najam

A couple of people have emailed to remind me that we have not had a post on Pinglish for a while. Maybe I got scared by sabizak’s reminder (here) that I should be more careful in my determination of what is or is not Pinglish. Must confess that I am still not sure what [...]

Adil Najam

What is the most appropriate word for ‘GanDeri’ in English?
I have puzzled over this for long and asked a number of friends. The best I got was ’sugarcane cut-piece’; where ‘cut-piece’ is itself a peculiar Pakistani-ism, if not Pinglish.
Both photographs have been blogged from Flickr.com. The one with the boy enjoying a ganDeri [...]

Adil Najam
Building on my other post today (’Trilingual’) and after Sabizak’s message on our first ATP post on Pinglish, I am no longer sure if I am using the term correctly or not. Hence the question mark.
However, this one is somewhat like another earlier ATP post, titled ‘Lost in Translation’. Literally, the translation is not [...]

Adil Najam
Folks, I want to stay on the subject of our elected officials — out-of-control Ministers and misbehaving MNAs — for just a little longer. Rest assured, ATP will come to misguided military-men soon enough.
There is a particular variety of Pinglish that goes beyond simply juggling Urdu and English idom and grammer; it adds a [...]