Over 10 years on the forum and something has been bothering me

[lastofthepatriots]

What makes you think that being overseas makes a Pakistani fully native or comfortable with English.
My city has been flooded with Afghanis and Ukrainians who cannot speak a word of English but are roaming around getting their lives on.

I know of Pakistanis in Houston who can barely converse in English, have no legal status and dont go out of three neighborhoods but have been in the US for 10 years.

I was a kid in Pakistan when I got my first English book from landa... The Count of Monte Cristo. Anything is possible for self improvement.

 

[RescueRanger]

I was a kid in Pakistan when I got my first English book from landa... The Count of Monte Cristo. Anything is possible for self improvement.

One of our former drivers Sattar - self-taught himself English by listening to BBC World Service on the Radio and insisting on every employer he worked for to speak with him in English. When he joined a leading Telecom company as a driver, the head of HR, himself from Norway paid for him to take his ILETS, he spoke English fluently and had an ILETS band score of B1 meaning he could function in spoken and written English at foundation (Higher Education) level.

This was a man who was the son of a milkman from Kharian.

Like you said, anything is possible if people put the effort in.

 

[omegared]

 

[mangochutney]

I generally don't lose my shirt over anything, but if any mofo in a bar was to give me merely 'cold beer', I would pour it on the ground, if not his head. While placing my order I always specify 'chilled' to say that if it is not teeth numbing, I would rather not have it.

The only other loose talk that gets me is using the word 'loose' instead of 'lose' and vice versa, and based instead of biased.

You couldn’t order chilled beer in UK lol
We don’t even call it beer in a pub ‘ you’d get funny looks if you ordered beer ‘

You want a beer in UK you say
“pint of a lager please love or just can I get a pint please “ .

Time for a British pub sketch
“Play it nice and cool son nice and cool

 

[RescueRanger]

Haha we are not far behind:

You couldn’t order chilled beer in UK lol
We don’t even call it beer in a pub ‘ you’d get funny looks if you ordered beer ‘

You want a beer in UK you say
“pint of a lager please love or just can I get a pint please “ .

Time for a British pub sketch
“Play it nice and cool son nice and cool

Only Fools and horses, British comedy Gold. Shame younger generation of Pakistanis don't know or appreciate this:

 

[mangochutney]

Chilled beer is just as common a terminology as cold beer in England.
In fact the the more upper class you are the more likely you are are of using chilled beer.

No it isn’t .
You haven’t a clue you sure your British lol

Lol no one orders a pint of beer or a bottle of beer in UK either you call it by it’s name or you call it lager

at chilled beer or cold beer

• A variety of beers and ales, including bitter, and pale ales are available on tap. There may be a few lagers on tap as well, but lots of pubs have a greater variety of lagers in bottles. If you want a cold beer, you'll have to order lager. Brits don't think you can appreciate the flavor of a beer if it is icy cold so they drink beer at cellar temperature. It's not warm, but it's not very chilled either. Ask the bar staff about local craft beers. Some regional breweries, such as Fuller's in London and Shepherd Neame in Kent, bottle special seasonal brews.

 

[mangochutney]

Haha we are not far behind:

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Only Fools and horses, British comedy Gold. Shame younger generation of Pakistanis don't know or appreciate this:

Best programme ever . I’ve got all episodes on USB and take it with me when I go abroad . Took it to PK last time and was watching it with my English masters degree uncle who couldn’t understand a word Delboy said
I think he was traumatised lol

For the friends who live abroad never order a chilled beer in the UK especially in a working class pub they get pretty violent for lesser reasons here



Everyone loves Delboy

“
Allo is that the mosque I wanna speak to mustafa about the syrups he sold me “ kills me everytime

For the yanks
Syrup = wig
Flog = sell
Pony = £25 a monkey £50 and a ton =£100
And it’s spelt colour not color

 

[RescueRanger]

Best programme ever . I’ve got all episodes on USB and take it with me when I go abroad . Took it to PK last time and was watching it with my English masters degree uncle who couldn’t understand a word Delboy said
I think he was traumatised lol

For the friends who live abroad never order a chilled beer in the UK especially in a working class pub they get pretty violent for lesser reasons here



Everyone loves Delboy & syrup means wig guys

I think people struggle with the cockney accents. I love cockney English, but my favourite regional English accent has to be Yorkshire, real man's accent. Personified by Sean Bean:

 

[mangochutney]

I think people struggle with the cockney accents. I love cockney English, but my favourite regional English accent has to be Yorkshire, real man's accent. Personified by Sean Bean:

Like my Auntie nusrat from Bradford

“Eh up lad by gum you grown aar kid “

Used to crack me up when I was a kid.

Scouse accent is also cool especially the females but how can we forget the Birmingham crew always upto no good even on YouTube lol

, oy baaweyo , whagwaan maser lol

 

[cocomo]

Apparently there is a language (or dialect) called Pakistani English according to google. I found out when I searched the word affectee.

https://www.google.com/search?q=affectee

 

[doorstar]

gtfo, nobody says chilled beer here

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there is another word plate farum/plate farm (platform) it is quite widespread in ghalt ul aam, so much so that I have seen it at railway stations.

 

[Sharma Ji]

there is another word plate farum/plate farm (platform) it is quite widespread in ghalt ul aam, so much so that I have seen it at railway stations.

lol, yeah, there's many

thing is, linguistically and oration wise there's these glitches in every language almost.. arabs can't say P lol

cant speak for Urdu but in Hindi, some Angrezi words are just impossible to write down, and by extension, unpronounceable..

"public demaynd"

people are of course more well read, educated etc these days but if you go textbook only, there's a lot of words that just don't translate well in another tongue, script, dialect, accent etc..

 

[Turingsage]

No it isn’t .
You haven’t a clue you sure your British lol

You and I do not mix in the same circles. I am not talking about going to your local

I think people struggle with the cockney accents. I love cockney English, but my favourite regional English accent has to be Yorkshire, real man's accent. Personified by Sean Bean:

Glaswegian or even Liverpudlian

 

[Sharma Ji]

You and I do not mix in the same circles. I am not talking about going to your local

 

[ApparentRaceTraitor]

Hi,

I know this might sound stupid to a lot of you guys, but over the past 15 years reading this forum there’s something that’s been getting on my nerves.

Why the f.u.c.k can’t Pakistanis spell the word ROGUE correctly?

ROUGE is a motherfucking color...

The spelling for ROGUE is R-O-G-U-E.

And it’s not just a specific member but seems like all Pakistani members. Is the school system that fucking bad?

It’s almost as annoying as when the bhartoads say ‘chilled beer’. Does it damage their brain to say COLD BEER?

WTF!



Thanks for reading and take care...

Word...always reminds me of the worst airline in the history of aviation