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Coronavirus-virus: See di list of kontris wey don get di disease as e dey spread
BBC ^ | Feb 25, 2020

Posted on 02/25/2020 10:10:58 AM PST by 11th_VA

Since December 2019 wen di Novel Coronavirus outbreak bin start for Wuhan, China, so far e don claim di lives of ova 2,700 pipo across di world.

As medical researcher and goment officials all ova di world dey look for cure and medicine to take contain di virus, di tin still dey spread from one kontri to anoda.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; pidgin
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WTF - is this pig Latin ?
1 posted on 02/25/2020 10:10:58 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Looks like a 12 grade book report.


2 posted on 02/25/2020 10:12:50 AM PST by Bitman
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To: 11th_VA

It’s the BBC Pidgin service.

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

It’s not a joke, it’s for a West African dialect of English.


3 posted on 02/25/2020 10:13:14 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: 11th_VA

BBC Pidgin English.

Seriously. I had no idea they ran a pidgin English version.

They got way too much money and time.


4 posted on 02/25/2020 10:13:28 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 11th_VA
Grounder language, of course.

What are You -Skaikru?

5 posted on 02/25/2020 10:14:06 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: 11th_VA

There are so few journalists left standing due to corona virus, they had to hire pidgen English speaking and writing journalists. All the journalists left uninfected are busy and engaged in creating propaganda and fake news.


6 posted on 02/25/2020 10:14:19 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: 11th_VA

Close: Pidgin English.


7 posted on 02/25/2020 10:14:27 AM PST by rfp1234
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To: 11th_VA

This article is written in Pigeon language. It’s for the birds.


8 posted on 02/25/2020 10:14:38 AM PST by sloanrb
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To: Bitman

Well. At least teacher knows it wasn’t ghost written by the honor student.


9 posted on 02/25/2020 10:15:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: 11th_VA

Jive or Ebonics?


10 posted on 02/25/2020 10:15:42 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: 11th_VA

Sorry, I thought you were drinking again.......LOL!


11 posted on 02/25/2020 10:16:01 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: Spktyr

If you read it out loud, it sounds Caribbean. I am truly shocked this is written that way FROM THE BBC.


12 posted on 02/25/2020 10:17:03 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: 11th_VA

LOL! I had no idea of...


13 posted on 02/25/2020 10:17:37 AM PST by crz
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To: 11th_VA

Rastafarian?


14 posted on 02/25/2020 10:17:53 AM PST by lee martell
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To: 11th_VA

Coulda fooled me! I thought it was a teenager from Newark texting!

(somebody beat me to it, but this pidgin English is for the birds.)


15 posted on 02/25/2020 10:18:20 AM PST by I want the USA back (We have sunk to a depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men:Orwell)
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To: 11th_VA

First list I’ve seen: 79,603 infected world wide with 2,755 dead. For what it’s worth I guess...


16 posted on 02/25/2020 10:18:30 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: originalbuckeye
Copyright © 2020 BBC. BBC no dey responsible for content wey dey external sites.
17 posted on 02/25/2020 10:18:41 AM PST by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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Seriously, now I've seen everything.

18 posted on 02/25/2020 10:19:40 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: 11th_VA

Where be de Ebonics translation?


19 posted on 02/25/2020 10:20:12 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: 11th_VA

it reads remarkably like Krio in Sierra Leone. Their bible is a real mess.


20 posted on 02/25/2020 10:20:37 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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