> Van: Gary Shannon <reboot@...>
>
> Speaking of pidgins, has any conlanger out there ever designed a
conpidgin?
> That might be a fun project, especially if it were designed to be about
50%
> comprehensible to a speaker of the base language. You could drive your
> English speaking friends nuts by talking to them in your own
English-based
> conpidgin that they could almost, but not quite understand. <hehe>
Once I tried to make a pidgin based on Gothic. I used the structure of
Papiamentu and tried to find words in Gothic that could replace the
Papiamentu words. It didn't really work because I couldn't find all the
words (had to invent one). I never finished it, but indeed it was fun to
do.
Rob