Pinglish: ‘Chips in Isle’ and ‘Long Arms’

Posted on March 30, 2007
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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 […]

Picture of the Day: ‘I Love Miss Spelling’

Posted on November 28, 2006
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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 […]

‘No Admission without Permission’

Posted on September 8, 2006
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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, […]

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