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UpInArms

(55,387 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:03 AM Jul 2025

wtf ... BBC?

What language is this?

Is this AI?

China dey offer parents $1,500 to encourage dem to born more children

Dem dey offer parents in China 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of dia children under di age of three in di goment first nationwide subsidy wey aim to boost birth rates.

Di kontri birth rate son dey fall, even afta di ruling Communist Party bin abolish di controversial one-child policy almost a decade ago.

Di handouts go help around 20 million families wit di cost of raising children, according to state media.

Several provinces across China get piloted some form of pay outs to encourage pipo to have more children as di world second largest economy face a looming demographic crisis.

Di scheme, wey dem announce on Monday, dey offer parents a total of up to 10,800 yuan per child.

More jibberish at:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cvgve328gjro

Editing to add that this seems to be a common type of reporting.

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wtf ... BBC? (Original Post) UpInArms Jul 2025 OP
Apparently it's real and directed towards West African nations who use a Pidgin dialect. Tommy Carcetti Jul 2025 #1
Thank you UpInArms Jul 2025 #4
It's their Nigerian Pidgin version dalton99a Jul 2025 #2
Thank you! I'd definitely wondered who the audience is for it. Mike 03 Jul 2025 #6
Thanks UpInArms Jul 2025 #7
No not AI: The "pidgin" articles is something the BBC has been doing for quite a while. Mike 03 Jul 2025 #3
I was just confused UpInArms Jul 2025 #5
Launched in 2017 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #8

Tommy Carcetti

(44,587 posts)
1. Apparently it's real and directed towards West African nations who use a Pidgin dialect.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:07 AM
Jul 2025
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

First I heard about this as well.

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
6. Thank you! I'd definitely wondered who the audience is for it.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:10 AM
Jul 2025

The BBC doesn't do anything lightly, so I knew it was important to some of their readers.

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
3. No not AI: The "pidgin" articles is something the BBC has been doing for quite a while.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:09 AM
Jul 2025

It is some kind of dialect they put up there. It blew my mind too when I first encountered it. I just try to find the same article written in the form of English I'm familiar with. I'm sure the BBC has an audience for that, but I have never researched it to find out more--just not that interested.

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