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Topic: Please, for the love of fora, just read the article.

McTurnip !ik5IYPHKKQ started this discussion 8 years ago #66,307

No questions: just read it.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-41317443?SThisFB

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 43 seconds later[^] [v] #815,799

omg bbc has pidgin articles??

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Meta joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #815,805

Is it bad that I when I read the BBC Pidgin news, I hear all the words in a Jamaican accent?

McTurnip !ik5IYPHKKQ (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #815,807

@previous (Meta)
lol no, as I do too.

dw !vYOrG6FSvY joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #815,811

@815,805 (Meta)
no i only read it different because I watch nollywood movies

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 22 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #815,817

@815,805 (Meta)

I flip between Miss Cleo and the Swedish Chef.

Meta replied with this 8 years ago, 41 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #815,826

@815,807 (McTurnip !ik5IYPHKKQ)
@815,811 (dw !vYOrG6FSvY)
@previous (E)
If I as an English speaker can read the Pidgin articles with a bit of effort, the native Pidgin speakers can read the BBC English articles with a bit of effort, right?

Like if we lived in parallel universe where Pidgin was "standard" English and all the major news was in Pidgin, I would just put in the effort to get fluent in Pidgin instead of seeking out the few, limited, Pidgin language news sources. I mean I can already read it 90+%, it's nothing compared to reading Chaucer in the original Middle English.

(Edited 14 seconds later.)

Anonymous E replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #815,831

@previous (Meta)

Middle English, at least later Middle English, isn't that bad once you get the hang of hang of it. That would be a fun world to live in: One where everything you read was in Modern English but everyone around you just kept interacting using Middle English.

Anonymous B replied with this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #815,832

@815,826 (Meta)
well yeah but why put in extra effort if you could also have standard english news? don't be turd
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