Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Tracing the aagurs. «Today the Kashmiri-language media is replete with English words in a way that has never previously been seen. Terms such as grenade, AK-47, security forces, crackdown, encounter, operation, blast, firing, crossfire, and even gun, pistol and arrest are now very much in use in both the Kashmir-language print and electronic media. However, some words are used with slight modifications – crackdown is modified as krekdown, grenade as gernede, crossfire as kras-fire – in order to suit the phonological needs of the Kashmiri speakers and listeners. In addition to single words, two-to-three-word English constructions can also be seen today in Kashmiri-language news items, highlighting new terms linked to security and governance. Some of these constructions include private member, asambali seshan, pulis, pulis hedkuarter, bulak president (block president), divizan bench, speshal apreshan group or assogi (Special Operations Group or SOG), inteligans agansi, etc. »