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Mike 03

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3. No not AI: The "pidgin" articles is something the BBC has been doing for quite a while.

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

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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wtf ... BBC? [View all] 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