What's your opinion on African Pidgin languages? Can you make sense of them?
What's your opinion on African Pidgin languages? Can you make sense of them?
Charles Allen
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Kayden Walker
What the fuck
Landon Parker
Sounds stupider than ebonix.
Eli Morales
It's atrocious. Either create a script and language from whatever means of communication your tribe used for centuries or use proper english. This is just bad.
Nolan Nelson
bbc.com
Does it even qualify as a different language if it is completely intelligible and 75% of the words are just English?
Gabriel Nguyen
It makes sense if they're quoting a person since they're trying to transcribe it accurately. It's not like it's just one guy's idiosyncratic/broken English: that's the way people talk there. But to write full articles in it, idk. If everyone who can speak like this can also read standard English, then it seems unnecessary. On the other hand, if this creole evolves, preserving it in these articles is a good time capsule so future linguists can go back and see how the language was in 2022.
Benjamin Brown
I encourage and support it as a step towards the full balkanization of the English language.
Samuel Harris
me ooga bri'ish booga
Leo Edwards
I miss corbyn so much bros
Camden Diaz
He's not dead, lad.
Caleb Martin
now post irish to compare
Matthew Roberts
>wey
>wan be
>who she be
LMAO
Parker Wilson
I quite like pidgin
>t.Ghanaian
Landon Roberts
That's why it's called a pidgin language
Austin Baker
>africans speak literal 'pigeon english'
Imagine expecting people to respect this.
Asher Diaz
do people speak it in ghana? Is it looked down upon or embraced?
Jordan Jenkins
>Tory media either fuming or gloating about how he couldn't win
>that nonce radar thing
And we all missed the chance for another Bojo vs Corbyn election too.
Easton Clark
it's so bad, i refuse to speak it on the principle
Camden Lopez
it's like french créole
Bentley Turner
>this is how romance languages would sound to ancient roman ears
depressing
Charles Garcia
Yes, we usually speak a combination pidgin of pidgin and local languages and their is a lot of slang that came from pidgin our pidgin is slightly different from Naija and other west african accents
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Jayden Miller
>whatever means of communication your tribe used for centuries
Because different groups use different languages.
>use proper english
Pidgin works because the English never really taught the language formally and Pidgin is a creole
Charles Davis
>if this creole evolves
It's been a thing for ages. that's like saying the same thing about Afrikaans or Sango.