Re: Bigbabytalk -a primitive language for AI
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 10, 2000, 3:14 |
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In a message dated 2000:09:09 7:30:46 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:
>alking about Pidgin English... have you ever looked at Malaysian English
>(also known as Manglish)? Or more specifically, Singaporean English (which
>is a hybrid of Singaporean Hokkien with English seasoned with some Malay
>influence). It's got lots of cultural references, inside-joke type
>expressions, and even its own tonal accent. :-)
Having grown-up with many relatives in South East Asia, why of course,
lah.
Singlish is one of my fav mutant Englishes (another is Hindlish, & still
more are the most extreme of the mutant Englishes of Melanesia: Tok Pisin,
Bislama & Solomin Ilan Pijin).
:)
czHANg