Abstract
Examining the vernacular lives of Punjabi language in Pakistan, this essay considers the question: what is the life of a language undesired in a hostile politicolinguistic ecology? By way of an answer, it employs the term paindoo to argue that Anglo-Urduphile postcolonial Pakistan reduces Punjabi to a lingual and visual accent that is caricatured, embodied, and gendered. This reductive accent is produced not by the speaker, but rather through the accented perception of the listener.
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