Reminds me when I found out Google did everything in pirate speak – is that still a thing??
Mum said it’s my turn to repost this tomorrow
They can probably fit the Southampton team in the trophy room these days.
I love that site
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Surely if you can read and understand this, you can read and understand actual English?
A dumb question, since English has countless pidgins based on who is speaking it and where: who speaks this particular pidgin, and which part of the world does it come from? It’s a bit unhelpful if it’s just called Pidgin without further clarification.
Edit: I suppose I should have just looked at the top of the image, duh! My question unintentionally looks like bait now.
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This sort of thing is so weird. The whole point of a Pidgin is that it’s not standardised. In a sense, it’s a heart language, not a head one. It will be markedly different from place to place. As soon as you try to standardise it… well, what are you going to base it on? What goes into the calculus? And most importantly, it stops becoming being a pidgin at that point.
The first picture looks like a Football Manager loading screen
Fun fact: about ten times more people speak English as a foreign language than actually live in the UK.
Even the pop-up asking about cookies is written in it.
I discovered that after the Queen Died
Wow, who learned them to write like that?!
I find pidgin so charming, as a language it feels effusive and cosy.
For some reason the news feed on my phone only recommends the Pidgin version of BBC articles.
Honestly think that this is awesome 😄
I also follow a BBC Breaking NuwuS site which managed to break the news of the queens death before the actual BBC Breaking News which was funnier than I think was intended. Sadly it’s down at the moment but always a fave of mine
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[My personal favourite story from there](https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41171196)
Fr that’s wicked
Reminds me when I found out Google did everything in pirate speak – is that still a thing??
Mum said it’s my turn to repost this tomorrow
They can probably fit the Southampton team in the trophy room these days.
I love that site
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Surely if you can read and understand this, you can read and understand actual English?
A dumb question, since English has countless pidgins based on who is speaking it and where: who speaks this particular pidgin, and which part of the world does it come from? It’s a bit unhelpful if it’s just called Pidgin without further clarification.
Edit: I suppose I should have just looked at the top of the image, duh! My question unintentionally looks like bait now.
inb4 locked
This sort of thing is so weird. The whole point of a Pidgin is that it’s not standardised. In a sense, it’s a heart language, not a head one. It will be markedly different from place to place. As soon as you try to standardise it… well, what are you going to base it on? What goes into the calculus? And most importantly, it stops becoming being a pidgin at that point.
The first picture looks like a Football Manager loading screen
Fun fact: about ten times more people speak English as a foreign language than actually live in the UK.
Even the pop-up asking about cookies is written in it.
I discovered that after the Queen Died
Wow, who learned them to write like that?!
I find pidgin so charming, as a language it feels effusive and cosy.
For some reason the news feed on my phone only recommends the Pidgin version of BBC articles.
Honestly think that this is awesome 😄
I also follow a BBC Breaking NuwuS site which managed to break the news of the queens death before the actual BBC Breaking News which was funnier than I think was intended. Sadly it’s down at the moment but always a fave of mine