Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Auto-correct

PSL = Pidgin as Second Language


827 posted on 06/10/2019 6:19:20 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (No dolphins were harmed in the making of this post. They enjoyed the rough handling.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 824 | View Replies ]


To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Q


829 posted on 06/10/2019 6:19:59 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 827 | View Replies ]

To: Cletus.D.Yokel
PSL = Pidgin as Second Language

I was a military brat in Hawaii in 1968, 8th grade at Waipahu Intermediate (a tough sugar cane field town then and they did not like white kids). I was one of only a few white kids at the school. My first day of school I thought they were speaking Hawaiian and I was going to learn a second language. But it was Pidgin English and I didn't understand a word.

833 posted on 06/10/2019 6:32:15 PM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 827 | View Replies ]

To: Cletus.D.Yokel

a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language. Pidgins have a limited vocabulary, some elements of which are taken from local languages, and are not native languages, but arise out of language contact between speakers of other languages.
another term for Tok Pisin.
noun: Pidgin
denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a nonnative speaker.

Tok Pison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin

Its how they communicate.

I fell down that Language of the Birds rabbit hole weeks ago. Left me reeling.

Phoenicians, Phonics...aieeeeeeeeee

Lead me down a rabbit hole of hell filled with Dictionaries.

I may need therapy for Wordphobia. LOL


836 posted on 06/10/2019 6:39:02 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Freedom or Liberty? Which would you choose?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 827 | View Replies ]

To: Cletus.D.Yokel
PSL = Pidgin as Second Language

Can tok Da Kine, ah wat?

851 posted on 06/10/2019 7:22:50 PM PDT by Chuckster (Probably not...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 827 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson