Why do Pakistani people speak English mixed with Urdu so much?

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Re: Why do Pakistani people speak English mixed with Urdu so much?

@diwana

bagha bagha… what is that?

Not only Pakistanis but a lot of non-Pakistanis grow large beard or women wear burqas based on their undertanding of religion.

Not because they just want to be monkeys copying another culture for no reason.

Before anyone get all excited by my word monkey: Let me explain.

If there is no reason whatsoever to speak or use English in day to day life then in my book you are a monkey looking for a banana if acting like someone other than you and yourself.

Beards and Burqas may be a bad example, but there are a lot of people emulating what they think arabs are like, if not in dress then in speech. I dont think all of it is some sort of religious understanding, but a cultural adoption..just like people are anglophiles or francophiles, it is not impossible for people to be arabphile or saudiphile, in their dress (jubbahs and leather socks are one example) and language..(you do realize the khudahafiz which was used by a lot of ppl is not under siege by allah hafiz…why not just say fi Amaan Allah instead of twisting khudahafiz to make it allah hafiz)… you can also see it in pronunciations of words..people using very arabic pronunciation .. just see how a common person speaks the word “yaani” vs someone who attaches the full might of the guttural throat to do a “YeaAny”…

of course I have my fun with both the english mixers and the overly arabic ones because I then just switch to full english or arabic with them, and then they are lost because of a lack of command of either..and not that my arabic is fluent, but it is better than the ones peppering their speech with arabic pronunciations or the over use of subhanAllah, MashAllah, InshaAllah, again no issues with these words and I use them too, but there are those who have these as a fillers in every other sentence..and then there are those who not only use it in every other sentence but use a full on arab accent in middle of conversational urdu for those words.