Not through violence, but through the word alone

2006-05-22

Here's a puzzle for You!

Look what my Cultural Anthropology teacher today showed us in class!

Tetei hem i hot tu mas.
Mi wandem go long solwara blong swim.


And on a different note:

Mi kaikai em ta sol.


Now... how many of you out there can understand what I'd just put up, I wonder? Here's a hint: It's Pidgin ^_^ I believe the teacher said tha this kind of language is spoken in Papua New Guinea.

Try saying it out loud and think that it's English... ?? Although frankly I wouldn't know how to do that myself, but anyway...

The first two lines mean:

Today it is hot too much.
Me want go long saltwater(sea) swim. *I have no clue what 'blong' would refer to.

And the third line is:

Me eat it only. *kaikai is not from English. *ta sol, means, that's all --> only.

Pidgin!

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