The BBC's Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations (news in Pidgin)(video only)

YouTube.com ^ | 8-25-2017 | Dave Cullen

[servo1969]

No. This not a joke. It's real. The BBC has apparently decided Africans are simply too stupid to be expected to learn normal English. So, the news will now be delivered to them in Pidgin as if it is a real language.

Would they ever deliver the news in Cockney? How about Leprechaun? Or maybe a heavy redneck Southern drawl?

[servo1969]

I fully expect the New York Times to be available in Ebonics soon. They can't have the BBC showing them up.

[nopardons]

Oh my dear and ALMIGHTY GOD..........

Takes a LOT to render me speechless and I'm about there re this video.

[BlessedBeGod]

I googled it to see if it was really real, and...un-freaking-believably, it is.

[servo1969]

See for yourself:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

Leftists: That’s right. No Lingua Franca! Proper English is the White man’s tongue. Let’s make broken English an officially recognized language. IT’S AS LEGITIMATE AS ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! And if you disagree - you’re racist!

[CharlesOConnell]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOGh8LxFf7Q

Papiamento (Chatting, a Chat), a language with only 850,000 speakers, in the Netherlands Antilles, Curacao, Bonaire and Aruba, a combination of Portuguese, African, Spanish and Hebrew.

Atardi Kòrsou ta bunita
Ora ku solo ta baha
Ora tur para ta kanta félis
Promé ku nan bai sosega

Atardi para kant’i playa
Un goso ta jena nos alma
Ta manera nos isla ta hal’un roséa
P’e jama e dia ayo

Pero atardi tambe tin tristesa
Or’e dia ta jega su fin
Ta manera un parti di nos ta bajendo y jamás nos lo bolbe miré

Curaçao’s evening is beautiful / when the sun is setting / the birds chirp happily / before they retire to rest

Sunset against the beach shore / fills our soul with joy / like our island takes a breath / to bid the day farewell

But evening also brings sadness / when another day comes to an end / like a part of us disappears / never to be seen again.

[nopardons]

OH DEAR AND MERCIFUL GOD.......

[Covenantor]

Article from BBC Pidgin news:

"Tanzania: New medicine dey kill mosquito troway"

24 August 2017

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Almost all di 500 million cases of malaria every year dey come from Africa. Na World Health Organisation talk dis one.

See di new way wey scientists for Tanzania wan take kill mosquito wey dey cause dis deadly disease.

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The above is a direct copy and paste from the BBC Pidgin news with line breaks added for clarity. LOL!

Will the Beeb go after the untapped starving fo news ebonics speakers?

Will ebonophonic neighborhoods have CNN at KFC's now run de BBC "Word Up Bro" news?

Stay stuned to the B·B·B·Beeber

[mrs. a]

I’m going to request that they start issuing reports in ‘Murican.

“Gol durnit, that varmint Trump done done it agin, I tell ya hwut!”

I shall demand a reporter who sounds like Yosemite Sam.

[okie 54]

As stupid as it seems I am not sure BBC is right. Of course if Fox News did this it would be deemed racist

[Impy]

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/40996385

BBC Pidgin service don start today’

BBC Pidgin service start today as part of the biggest expansion of BBC World Service since di 1940’s.
Focus on Africa presenter, Peter Okwoche, bin dey live for BBC radio 4 Today programme, on Monday morning, to talk about Pidgin and the new BBC Pidgin Service.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41034400

“No monitor social media, Nigerians tell military

“Since di Nigeria military don talk say dem dey monitor wetin people dey talk for social media and on top online, Nigerians don dey react.
People wey BBC News Pidgin talk to say dem dey fear say e be like di government wan kill freedom of expression for Nigeria.”

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/41054401

“BBC Pidgin na for all of us” - Toyin

Impy start laugh

“Wetin” means “what” btw.

[Impy]

https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/15-nigerian-pidgin-english-phrases-you-need-to-know/

[jdege]

Creoles are real languages.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Oh, my stars.

[Elsie]

Hoosier Jim

Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,

An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,

An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,

An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep;

An' all us other children, when the supper-things is done,

We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun

A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about,

An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you

Ef you

Don't

Watch

Out!

[Elsie]

https://youtu.be/0jsk1A0tsSc

[60Gunner]

Do any of their reporters speak Jive?

[NFHale]

I have absolutely NO idea “wetin” to say about “dis”.

Maybe Yoda could translate... “Hmmm... INSANE, they are, yes...”

[VanShuyten]

Radio Australia has been broadcasting Tok Pisin to New Guinea and close by islands for many, many decades. Tok Pisin is now closer to a real creole than just a trade language. There are many creoles around the world, and they all started off as trade languages. This is just another. The BBC just expanded its reach.

There are many creoles based on English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and even German. It makes sense to broadcast in a pigin that reaches tens of millions instead of trying to broadcast in the dozens of local languages.

[VanShuyten]

By the way, BBC broadcasts in 40 different languages. The guy who made this YT is ignorant.

[Campion]

I shall demand a reporter who sounds like Yosemite Sam.

Every news report ends with, "Nah BACK OFF, ya long-eared galoot!"