/lang/ - 'cute' languages?

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-10 1:55

Holy shit, Tok Pisin is adorable/awesome.

air conditioner = win masin ("wind machine")
bookshop = buksop
name for a "fancy" person from town = susok man ("shoe sock man")
bunch of tanket leaves stuck into a belt to cover a man's backside = arse gras
to have sex = hevim seks

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-10 10:46

that's stupid

fucking post-colonial faggots can't even speak a language properly.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-10 20:07

>>2
That's exactly what the Normans thought about the English after the Hundred years war; and what the British thought about the Americans after their Revolution.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 2:17

Tok Pisin = Talk Pissing?

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 5:11

>>4
language spoken in pupa new guinea

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 8:48

>>3

And they were right.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 9:37

>>1
Same "anglicisms" for Japanese or Korean languages.

>>3
Yeah

>>4
Lawl

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 11:00

>>4

"Talk Pidgin"

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 14:52

>>3
Colonials are irrelevant, and they didn't have massive printing presses and education in the end of 11th century, which made languages easy to fuck up, so I believe these islanders have failed.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 19:26

platform (railway) - ples bilong wetim tren
talkative person - man bilong toktok
hairdresser - man i save katim gras bilong het
contraceptive for males - gumi bilong kok

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-12 19:02

>>10
>gumi bilong kok

rofl

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-13 1:32

Afrikaans is like this as well, except with Dutch instead of English. It's cute for a bit, but then it gets on your nerves really quickly.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-13 3:46

>>12
yeah dutch people do piss me off heaps

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-13 8:39

>>1
Too bad its speakers aren't.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-23 4:32

>>9
pidgin -> creole -> language

that's the way it works. tough shit deal with it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-23 9:09

>>15
That's the way it worked.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-27 20:33

We like Galician (From galicia in Spain) and Kansai-ben (From Kansai region in Japan) accents.

Everythings sounds better in those two.

Your mother is dead...
She was killed by our father...
Whith a whisk!

A túa nai está morta
Matouna o teu pai
Cun couso de batir!

See? You can even smile.

I don't know how to translate to kansai-ben, though... I can only recognice it spoken.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 10:36

hahaha wow I love Tok Pisin.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 15:15

Imagine being a native speaker of this language.

I probably would kill myself...

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:06

http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/news/story?id=663913&s=mot&type=story

'cute' languages?

1 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-10 1:55

2 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-10 10:46

3 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-10 20:07

4 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 2:17

5 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 5:11

6 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 8:48

7 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 9:37

8 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 11:00

9 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 14:52

10 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-11 19:26

11 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-12 19:02

12 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-13 1:32

13 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-13 3:46

14 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-13 8:39

15 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-23 4:32

16 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-23 9:09

17 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-27 20:33

18 Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 10:36

19 Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 15:15

20 Name: Anonymous 2008-04-01 16:06