Dandan
January 20, 2020, 1:25pm
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For fun would be the language that relies most heavily on whistling, kissy sounds, and hand gestures.
Dan
Dandan
January 20, 2020, 8:14pm
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Sweet jumpin’ jeepers, Jo - have you ever had to say to an SO, “But we never just TALK anymore!”?
Dan
purplehorseshoe:
Oh, my god. I love it. Where/how does one learn Pidgin?
OH!! Related question: what’s the language that’s written like French spelled phonetically? I don’t know how else to describe it. I saw it at an international airport, on a sign in about a jillion tongues. Was utterly baffled, then out of boredom (it was a long line!) started sounding through it letter by letter and realized I was “speaking” French with rather decent pronunciation. All the weird vowel shenanigans were spelled right out for me.
Anyway, whatever that was? That seemed like a neat language to learn, all the fancy sounds of French without the WTF of their pronunciation.
I FOUND IT!
Was looking at something else in Wikipedia about linguistics (what? that’s “beach lite” reading, right?) and wandered across what HAS to be the “phonetic French” that I saw:
French Guianese Creole (Kriyòl; also called variously Guianan Creole, Guianese Creole in English and Créole guyanais in French) is a French-based creole language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree, in Suriname and Brasil. It resembles Antillean Creole, but there are some lexical and grammatical differences between them. Antilleans can generally understand French Guianese Creole, though there may be some instances of confusion. The differences consist of more French and Brazilian Port...