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Jilly_in_VA

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Tue Jan 18, 2022, 05:49 PM Jan 2022

A site some of you might enjoy---BBC News Pidgin

It's West African Pidgin, and I gather it's mostly aimed at British immigrants from Ghana, Nigeria, etc., with news from both Africa and the UK in Pidgin.I discovered it kind of by accident a couple of years ago when looking for information on tfg's "witch doctor"...remember her? They had a whole exposé on her, which the regular BBC did not, and went way back to her roots in Africa, which absolutely nobody else did. I was able to figure out how the language works after awhile and now I check the site every couple of days. Right now everyone's going wild with Afrocup (futbol), just about as we over here are for NFL--those that indulge anyway.

It's probably no secret to anyone that follows me at all that I'm a language freak. I love how they work and how they're constructed. I've been fascinated with dialects and patois of English all my life, what with having a mother who grew up in the Ozarks and could speak Ozark fluently but didn't (it's a subset of Appalachian English). I used to read NiuGini TokTok online, which is another newspaper in Pacific Pidgin, New Guinea specifically, but it disappeared some time back. I also once followed an Indian English-language newspaper sporadically but have forgotten the name of it. Having worked with a lot of Indian nurses, I have come to appreciate that Indian English is constructed somewhat differently.

Anywany, enough blathering. Here is the site for BBC News Pidgin. Enjoy!
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

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A site some of you might enjoy---BBC News Pidgin (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 OP
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. MLAA Jan 2022 #1
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