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Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 5:24 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
I'm surprised to find the BBC has a website with news in pidgin. But I guess it's big in Nigeria
For one press conference, WHO Europe head Hans Klugetok say Europe fit see half a million more deaths by February.
E blame insufficient vaccine take-up for di increase.

"We must change our tactics, from reacting to surges of Covid-19 to preventing dem from happening in di first place," e tok.

Di rate of vaccination don slow across Europe in recent months. Oga Kluge also blame di relaxation of public health measures for rising infections for di WHO European region, wey cover 53 kontries including parts of Central Asia.
That Hans Klugetok be down wid it!

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:11 pm
by Bicycle Bill
That's not pidgin ... not any more, anyway.   That's an attempt at legitimizing AAVE (Afro-American Vernacular English — or what used to be called 'Ebonics') by putting it into printed form.
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Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:23 pm
by Long Run
And before that:


Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:05 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Bicycle Bill wrote:
Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:11 pm
That's not pidgin ... not any more, anyway.   That's an attempt at legitimizing AAVE (Afro-American Vernacular English — or what used to be called 'Ebonics') by putting it into printed form.

er, no it isn't. They don't speak Ebonics in Nigeria

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 10:09 pm
by Econoline

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2021 6:01 am
by MajGenl.Meade
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Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2021 2:34 pm
by Big RR
MajGenl.Meade wrote:
Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:05 pm
Bicycle Bill wrote:
Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:11 pm
That's not pidgin ... not any more, anyway.   That's an attempt at legitimizing AAVE (Afro-American Vernacular English — or what used to be called 'Ebonics') by putting it into printed form.

er, no it isn't. They don't speak Ebonics in Nigeria
Then again, they're not Americans (at least for the majority of Nigerian citizens), nor do they speak American English (not sure about British English) in Nigeria.

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 6:55 pm
by BoSoxGal
Finally getting around to watching seasons 2-5 of The Wire. Season 4 episode 1 a street scene and in the background someone’s hawking product labeled ‘pandemic’. Lololol

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:22 pm
by TPFKA@W
Big RR wrote:
Thu Nov 18, 2021 2:34 pm
MajGenl.Meade wrote:
Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:05 pm
Bicycle Bill wrote:
Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:11 pm
That's not pidgin ... not any more, anyway.   That's an attempt at legitimizing AAVE (Afro-American Vernacular English — or what used to be called 'Ebonics') by putting it into printed form.

er, no it isn't. They don't speak Ebonics in Nigeria
Then again, they're not Americans (at least for the majority of Nigerian citizens), nor do they speak American English (not sure about British English) in Nigeria.
I have heard Nigerians point out that they speak the British version of English, and English is the official language of Nigeria although definitely not the most spoken language there. I also have a terrible time getting past the accent which is decidedly not British in nature.

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:25 am
by Gob
There is no British accent.

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:19 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Quite. I am often asked where my accent is from. I invariably* reply "I'm not the one with the accent!" I make a lot of friends that way . . .

* OK, not invariably. I sometimes say "Well I'm not from this part of Kentucky."

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:39 pm
by Crackpot
Gob wrote:
Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:25 am
There is no British accent.
there are hundreds of them

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:45 pm
by Gob
That's right, none are known as "British" though.

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:24 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
They are if you don't live in Britain

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:00 pm
by Gob
Yeah, but what do they know?

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:15 pm
by Crackpot
The same could be said of an American accent but ours don’t vary quite as rapidly

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:12 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Gob wrote:
Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:00 pm
Yeah, but what do they know?
Why, they know one has an accent associated with the Isles of British, the Kingdom of Union and the garden sheds of England

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:44 am
by Joe Guy
How Americans see Britain...


Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:32 pm
by TPFKA@W

Re: Home for Random Thoughts

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:14 pm
by Bicycle Bill
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