Speaking Pigeon English

what are you on about ?

speaking pigeon english

give us an example of pigeon english then

coo coo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90

that's trill

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that's not an example,that's a twa.t

this is speaking the pigeon english.Do you do it?

i have to,can't get by in this country without doing it

yes me liking

Pigeon is a bird

You mean pidgin English

yeah that`ll do something like that

I went to a chinese restaurant last week and it was chaos i`m telling you

the man who runs my local newsagent is from bangladesh,the cashier in my bank is from poland,the barmaid in my local is from romania as is the taxi driver who takes me home and if he doesn't the bus driver is polish also.

so what are you saying saluting ?Are you at it aswell?

I bet loads are at it without realizing they are doing it

Eh, no make ldat!

ee bye gum lad
owt like that round tis way .
ee Lad ye ought to get yourself over to yorkshire ..

yes you liking ?yes me liking

Actually pidgins are linguistically quite interesting - they cast light on the evolution of modern languages. Eventually they turn into creoles.

From Jared Diamond's The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee. A Neo-Melanisian advert.

Kam insait long stua belong mipela - stua bilong salim olgeta samting - mipela i-ken helpim yu long kisim wanem samting yu laikim bikpela na liklik long gutpela prais. I-gat gutpela kain kago long baiim na i-gat stap long helpim yu na lukautim yu long taim yu kam insait long dispela stua.

Read it out to yourself - concentrate on the sounds, ignore the spelling. Almost all the words are derived from English. Liklik means little and is from Tolai.

First reasonable translation gets a big, wet, sloppy kiss from me (with lots of tongue).