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37 responses to “Pinglish: Your Humble servant”

1. Rafay Kashmiri says:

   July 16, 2008 at 2:37 pm

   @BilligerentPacifist,

   In today’s world, we all speak branches of
   Indo-European languages, with the exception,
   of Kurdish, and Albanian, they hav’nt yet been classified
   in origins. Subject is wide-ranged research demanding,
   whenever we come to learn any other language than
   mother-tongue, we do face the following problems :
   – Grammatical structure to construct communication,
   – unavoidable ‘strange’ accent
   – imperfection in Pronunciation
   – Oratorical eloquency capacity

   one can not but tolerate and accept an ‘accent’ as our
   faculties need a solid background to develop in the above
   mentionned areas, what we ca not change is the fact
   how a German speaks French,
   a Frenchman speaks English,
   an Englishman speaks German
   a Punjabi speaks Urdu
   an Urduphone speaks punjabi
   An Indian speaks English
   an Arab speaking any other language
   and so on and so forth,
   funny accent has become a part of hilarity in nearly every
   culture today, tolerance is the best attitude, atleast against
   any form of “uniformism”. Achieving perfection in other
   languages is indeed extraordinary effort from some one
   not belonging to that language.
   What is profoundly disturbing is mixing two different
   languages as a false culture and trend, distinguishing
   ‘social class’ level, it mutilates both languages.
   Inventing languages is another subject.

   @ and I agree with Amna

2. Amna says:

   July 16, 2008 at 9:41 am

   Really funny stuff.

   I think most important part is at the end when you define Pinglish. I agree it is not just about speaking wrong English but about the mixing of English and Urdu idiom, words or grammar. Thank you for this.