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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostProbably everything is a bit racist by today's standards. I click a link from Google to the BBC and it took me there, and I was like "Is this a comedy page?"
I mean, this is English but just with terrible spelling isn't it? I can understand it, can the native Pidgin speakers somehow not understand English?
What next, Yorkshire World Service...
"Aye up lad, sommat 'appen in China, everyone off 'twerk, flippin eck Boris is wassack"
Maybe we should lobby the BBC for some English regional dialect versions like Geordie or Brummie for starters
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostI could barely tolerate them spending cash on welsh, but whats the size of market for pidgin English.
Pidgin English is common in plenty of other countries. One of the main differences is that the grammar is usually quite simplified.
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trying hard to remember WTF he watched on BBC last.
Er, I think it was the last ep of Doctor Who, whenever that was.
Loved the black lady Doctor, a refreshing change.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
Sorry, shouldn't laugh but try reading this BBC stuff without putting on an outrageous accent in your head.
Domot - BBC News Pidgin
No wonder young people don't bother with it any more, and neither increasingly does anyone else besides those too stupid or set in their ways to change.
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostIt's what the BBC spends the license fee on, that and 200 other languages.
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Originally posted by vetran View Postisn't that a teeny bit racist?
I mean, this is English but just with terrible spelling isn't it? I can understand it, can the native Pidgin speakers somehow not understand English?
What next, Yorkshire World Service...
"Aye up lad, sommat 'appen in China, everyone off 'twerk, flippin eck Boris is wassack"Last edited by DimPrawn; 1 August 2020, 11:00.
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When I googled for the Trump supporting bat-poo crazy Nigerian born doctor - I got the pidgin page about her first. I thought I was on the daily mash at first.
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Just remember, this is the BBC World Service and there is something to be said for being a primary news source for a considerable portion of the world...
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostI could barely tolerate them spending cash on welsh, but whats the size of market for pidgin English.
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I could barely tolerate them spending cash on welsh, but whats the size of market for pidgin English.
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