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BBC Pidgin Web Site
The BBC ^ | today | BBC

Posted on 01/01/2018 11:13:55 AM PST by tje

This has to be seen to believed. If people are going to learn to read, they should choose a real one.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: language; pidgin
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1 posted on 01/01/2018 11:13:55 AM PST by tje
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De one we dem de read well well

Pidgin is for bird brains.

2 posted on 01/01/2018 11:16:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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3 posted on 01/01/2018 11:18:37 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I’ve heard the Japanese have a kind of pidgin language now for non-Japanese speakers. (Told to me by a pal who has a Japanese wife and daughter.)


4 posted on 01/01/2018 11:19:05 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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Ebonics...


5 posted on 01/01/2018 11:25:04 AM PST by Skywise
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BBC starts Pidgin digital service for West Africa audiences [21 August 2017]

A new language service for digital platforms in English-based Pidgin for West and Central Africa has been launched by the BBC World Service.

Pidgin is one of the most widely-spoken languages across the region, even though it is not officially recognised.

The launch is part of the World Service's biggest expansion since the 1940s, following a government funding boost announced in 2016.

Pidgin will soon be joined by 10 more new services in Africa and Asia.

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6 posted on 01/01/2018 11:25:30 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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British Broadcasting of Communism creates a Pidgin site but still refuses to create a Hebrew site.


7 posted on 01/01/2018 11:40:57 AM PST by exbrit
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Unsurprisingly, still the No. 1 story "De one we dem de read well well", despite dating back to Sept...

Woman wan troway poo-poo, come trap for window

8 posted on 01/01/2018 11:42:05 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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"Pidgin is for bird brains."

It's hard enough to read in electron print ... Think if you had to make a week-long trip there and had to hear that out loud for 7 days ....

9 posted on 01/01/2018 11:43:58 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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10 posted on 01/01/2018 11:44:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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I found this site the other day, following the article titled, “Woman wan troway poo-poo, come trap for window”

Unbelievable.


11 posted on 01/01/2018 11:49:31 AM PST by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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“What is so special about Pidgin?

“It’s quite fluid, it keeps changing all the time and it’s expressive as well,” says Bilkisu Labran, head of the new BBC language services for Nigeria.

“Sometimes, if you don’t have a word for something, you can just create an onomatopoeic sound and just express yourself. And it will be appreciated and understood.

“I can talk about the gun shots that went ‘gbagbagba’ and you get my gist. So it vividly captures it instead of describing or trying to find a word to say: ‘The gun shots were very loud’.”

Also, Pidgin hardly follows standard grammatical rules so “you can lose things like verbs”, by saying: ‘I dey go’ to mean ‘I’m going’.

Other examples are:

I wan chop ( I want to eat)

Wetin dey ‘appen? (What is happening?)

I no no (I do not know)

Where you dey? (Where are you)”

Obviously the BBC has way too many tax dollars. They should get taken completely off the public trough. How do you profess to communicate with a “ language” with words made up as you go and no rules?


12 posted on 01/01/2018 11:53:28 AM PST by aquila48
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And every other word is “muthaf.....”, or some derivative thereof.


13 posted on 01/01/2018 11:54:53 AM PST by dfwgator
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Imagine if it were in cursive.


14 posted on 01/01/2018 12:02:27 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Hearing it spoken, one is compelled to compare arficabonics with the last hour of the equally horrific “Cloud Atlas”....


15 posted on 01/01/2018 12:49:12 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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Pidgin is a language. Certainly not the Queen’s English. But as much as creole is a derivative of French.


16 posted on 01/01/2018 2:10:00 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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Are jive and pigdin related?

Paging...


17 posted on 01/01/2018 2:15:36 PM PST by upchuck (President Trump is great because he actually runs something other than his mouth!)
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That was my first thought as well


18 posted on 01/01/2018 4:18:49 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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OMG, what kind of bizarro world is this.


19 posted on 01/01/2018 7:39:20 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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I did some poking around - it’s also an official language of Hawaii.. And it’s in two versions (maybe more) Pidgin Hawaiian and Hawaiian Creole English - HCE.

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

The longer I live, the more I learn - thanks..


20 posted on 01/02/2018 5:59:31 AM PST by tje
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