Re: OT: Creoles, Pidgins, and whether Auxlangers study them

Personally, I reckon English would make a great IAL. Has anyone tried it?

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Esperanto is essentially Indo-European pidgin.
>     --Roger Mills
>
> Any more questions?
Yes. I have a business proposal. I hear you are a trustworthly man from
an associate. Would you be willing to give me your bank account details
so I can drop (USD20M) TWENTL MILLION US DOLLARS into it? (By the way,
I'd be much obliged if you could imagine that this entire email is in
all caps. I know all-caps emails are much more attention grabbing and
any text in all caps is TEN (10) times as likely to be really decent,
it's just that I've mapped my Caps Lock key to something that doesn't
keep randomly turning itself on damn small keyboard.) The new government
in my country have decided to kill me or decided that they were black
and I was white---evil racist scum, you see, all the black people
are---and this is the only way I can stay alive and keep my dead
father's money, or something. In exchange ,I will allow you to keep
TWENTY (20) percent of it, plus (50) FIFTY per cent of all the profits
you make from my money.

I hope this is of interest to you. If it isn't, for the low-low sum of
$20 000 000 (twenty million dollars again---remarkable figure, isn't
it?), I will wipe your address from my addressbook for at least five (V)
minutes.

[The scammers have apparently run out of good names. Freddie Blah? What
kind of name is Freddie Blah??]

--
Tristan.                 |       To be nobody-but-yourself in a world
kesuari at yahoo!.com.au |  which is doing its best to, night and day,
                          |                 to make you everybody else---
                          |          means to fight the hardest battle
                          |            which any human being can fight;
                          |                    and never stop fighting.
                          |      --- E. E. Cummings, "A Miscellany"

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