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

Quoting Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>:

> Personally, I reckon English would make a great IAL. Has anyone tried it?
Yep. It sucks, because it doesn't have a distinct accusative case for nouns, nor
number agreement for adjs. No-one could possibly learn such a counterintuitive
language.

> 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.
Unfortunately, my religion forbids me from being email scammed by people who
don't type in ALL CAPS.

> [The scammers have apparently run out of good names. Freddie Blah? What
> kind of name is Freddie Blah??]
Got that one too ...

                                                          Andreas