Indian woman divorce husband because dem no get toilet

Caged · 26 Aug 2017 at 16:09

Diddums said:
I never even knew Pidgin was a thing!

I don't quite get the beeb's angle though. Surely if someone can understand that then they can stretch a bit further to English? Or am I missing something here?

Have a read of

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-digital-pidgin-language-service

Chuk_Chuk · 26 Aug 2017 at 16:21

Dis86 said:
It's not really foreign though. It's a bastardisation of English.

Vonhelmet said:
True, I pondered that as I was typing it.

Considering the link below, its spoken by at least 75 million people. So make of it what you will

Caged said:
Have a read of

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-digital-pidgin-language-service

Nasher · 26 Aug 2017 at 16:22

Didn't actually think it was a written dialect though...

Caged · 26 Aug 2017 at 16:23

It's not officially, but it might be the only written language that the target audience have.

dowie · 26 Aug 2017 at 16:23

Vonhelmet said:
Hahahahaha foreign languages are hilarious.

Grow up.

Nawa oh! Wahala Dey

Diddums · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:15

Caged said:
Have a read of

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-digital-pidgin-language-service

Lovely, thanks! Pretty big deal then and a great thing the beeb have done to accommodate other cultures.

darkgen · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:20

Caged said:
It's not officially, but it might be the only written language that the target audience have.

I wonder what percentage of those pay the license fee.

Caged · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:21

Are you familiar with the aims of the BBC World Service at all?

Diddums · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:33

darkgen said:
I wonder what percentage of those pay the license fee.

I for one am proud to be part of a nation which does this and am happy to pay a few extra quid a year to help educate and inform others.

Malevolence · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:34

darkgen said:
I wonder what percentage of those pay the license fee.

It's licence not 'license'. Do they not teach the difference between nouns and verbs any more?

darkgen · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:35

Caged said:
Are you familiar with the aims of the BBC World Service at all?

I am and I generally support the allocation of funds to further Britishness across the globe and bring stories and opinions to far flung regions which have access to none.

I cannot quite get behind this specific folly if I'm being honest.

darkgen · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:37

Malevolence said:
It's licence not 'license'. Do they not teach the difference between nouns and verbs any more?

Bare with me.

Diddums · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:39

darkgen said:
Bare with me.

Bare what, your plums?

darkgen · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:40

Diddums said:
Bare what, your plums?

Don't break my adverbs!

spoffle · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:11

darkgen said:
I am and I generally support the allocation of funds to further Britishness across the globe and bring stories and opinions to far flung regions which have access to none.

I cannot quite get behind this specific folly if I'm being honest.

But what has this got to do with the TV licence? Absolutely nothing. You don't need a TV licence to view the BBC news websites.

I don't have a TV licence and I can go and view them if I wish.

ic1male · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:12

I wonder what it's like to read a book in Pidgin. It seems to have an extremely limited vocabulary. I bet there isn't even a thesaurus for the language.

darkgen · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:16

spoffle said:
But what has this got to do with the TV licence? Absolutely nothing. You don't need a TV licence to view the BBC news websites.

I don't have a TV licence and I can go and view them if I wish.

The web content is supported by the licence fee.

spoffle · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:22

darkgen said:
The web content is supported by the licence fee.

So? You're not supposed to pay the fee to access it, so it's irrelevant.

darkgen · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:22

spoffle said:
So? You're not supposed to pay the fee to access it, so it's irrelevant.

If you say so.

Diddums · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:24

Sometimes, whilst shredding the TV licence letters, I like to put the BBC on in the background just to have that insane criminal rush course through my veins.

Come at me.