Re: New to the list

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> > For speakers of Austronesian languages, Tok Pisin. For anglophones, BI.
>
> Is that something that has actually been measured?
Probably not.  But our own Jacques Guy (still on this list, frogguy?)
described Bislama, which is closely related to TP, as "an Austronesian
language with English lexemes", which suggests that using it fluently
will be easy for Austro-speakers and hard for anglophones.

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