I have been updating my travelogue cum my notebook on the two Kperogi language threads and intend to transfer the satirical matter to this forum when next I access a computer keyboard ina Stockholm. For once, my Bettah Half ( a veritable language buff/translator/polygot in her own right - French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Mother tongue Swedish) has been following the discussion and says that she likes IBK
Excuse the pomposity, but it also behoves me to defend/exonerate my dear Yoruba mentor, the venerable Ogbeni Kadiri, before insult adds to injury.
In the meantime, here's some passable patois, pidgin, broken, call it what you will, being put to some "literary" use
https://www.google.com/search?q=sam+selvon+%3A+Moses+ascending&oq=Sam+Selvon+%3A+Moses+Ascending&aqs=chrome.0.69i59.2605j0j4&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
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