Pls no get disres and come quench o! We no wan call ambulance o! (And there you have the necessarily present hilarity component of pidgin well demonstrated).
On 1 Nov 2016 22:39, "Farooq A. Kperogi" <farooqkperogi@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:
Creoles/Creoledom was a twentieth century invention by the descendants of original captives who had lost their language. Those who still retained their language carved a separate identity for themselves: Oku/Aku.
Thanks, Professor Abdullah. But how did that happen? Why didn't the original captives pass on their languages to their children? I am curious. Has anyone studied this?
Farooq
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