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[rant]why do english/chinese companies don't give a damn about other languages..
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Domagoj T:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on March 22, 2020, 12:32:24 am ---I had a look and I found it surprisingly readable.
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I was just about to ask you natives if you find it readable. I can certainly understand it (I think I do), but with some difficulty and it seems easier if I vocalize it in an entirely racist accent.
What's "wey" and "na"?
"Only Lagos alone don record 19 out of di 27 confam Coronavirus cases inside Nigeria. Di Nigeria Centre for Disease Control say na just two pipo don recover, including di Italian wey first carri di disease enta Nigeria."
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Domagoj T on March 22, 2020, 06:08:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on March 22, 2020, 12:32:24 am ---I had a look and I found it surprisingly readable.
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I was just about to ask you natives if you find it readable. I can certainly understand it (I think I do), but with some difficulty and it seems easier if I vocalize it in an entirely racist accent.

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Not racist for once, just appropriate. I can't properly read German unless I mentally hear it in a German accent, I don't see why something mostly African should be any different in principle.

--- Quote ---What's "wey" and "na"?
"Only Lagos alone don record 19 out of di 27 confam Coronavirus cases inside Nigeria. Di Nigeria Centre for Disease Control say na just two pipo don recover, including di Italian wey first carri di disease enta Nigeria."

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"na" => now.

"wey" not too sure. Having at stab at it,  I think it might be "what"/"when" - looks like a lot of the irregular what/when/where words from English get translated to "wey". There's a usage of "what" instead of "that" that gets used (strictly, used incorrectly) by native English speakers in certain places: "The car what I own" instead of "the car that I own" and this looks like that, plus use of a single pidgin word to cover several English words that do a similar job, but have complex rules as to which to use when and what to use where. <- See what I mean, easy for a native, complex for everybody else?

"including di Italian wey first carri di disease enta Nigeria" =>
"including the Italian what[that] first carri[ed] the disease into Nigeria"

And from the BBC pidgin home page at the moment:
"We share five tips to epp anybodi wey need to..." -> "We share five tips to help anybody that needs to..."
chris_leyson:
I think in Nigerian pidgin wey might translate as who.
wizard69:
It is also why the best thing we could do is to get the rest of the world to give up on their native languages and make English a universal language.   The trend of the last few decades to teach students in the USA a foreign language has been a huge mistake, a waste of money really.   Instead we should have been raising a armies of English teachers to send around the world.


--- Quote from: Jeff_Birt on September 21, 2016, 12:16:10 pm ---My Mom used to work for a Vietnamese women here in the United States. She was raised in Vietnam, went to university in Japan (aerospace engineering), and immigrated to the USA. So she was an engineer who speaks at least three languages fluently. After working in the aerospace field for many years she was hired by Honda as a translator. They fly her around the world to serve as a translator between different engineering teams because she knows engineering terminology and can communicate that in multiple languages. This is just one example of the lengths and expense that companies go through to work/communicate effectively in just a few languages. Now multiply that by 200 or more languages and it becomes an enormous and expensive problem. When it is not done properly we wind up with things like Chinglish manuals ?

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Tepe:

--- Quote from: wizard69 on March 24, 2020, 12:13:43 pm ---It is also why the best thing we could do is to get the rest of the world to give up on their native languages and make English a universal language.   The trend of the last few decades to teach students in the USA a foreign language has been a huge mistake, a waste of money really.   Instead we should have been raising a armies of English teachers to send around the world.

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Glem det, mand - det kommer aldrig til at ske  :P
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