We’re listening to West African Pidgin English.
Millions of people speak it, but now it’s getting a big boost from the BBC World Service. What’s this language like? And will it change, now that it’s hit the world stage?
Daniel, Ben, and Kylie talk it over on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Promo
A chat with Paul ahead of the show. We discuss West African Pidgin English, and where the word pidgin comes from.
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Cutting Room Floor
Rather a sweary CRF post this time! And on video. What do you think?
Daniel has been to a book sale, and he reveals his linguistic treasures.
What song will they play at our funerals? And we assess the acting of Ms Salad.
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Show notes
Bob Katter Wants To Reclaim The Word ‘Gay’ Because It’s His Favourite
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/independent-bob-katter-wants-to-reclaim-the-word-gay/
How the human brain detects the ‘music’ of speech
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-human-brain-music-speech.html
Controlling a single brain chemical may help expand window for learning language and music
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-brain-chemical-window-language-music.html
Restoring auditory cortex plasticity in adult mice by restricting thalamic adenosine signaling
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6345/1352
What is Adenosine?
https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Adenosine.aspx
BBC Pidgin
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
BBC Pidgin Language Service
http://languagehat.com/bbc-pidgin-language-service/
BBC Pidgin don land!
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-40993674
BBC Pidgin service don start today
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/40996385
Meet the team: BBC starts Pidgin digital service for West Africa audiences
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40975399
Pidgin – West African lingua franca
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38000387
How to speak Nigerian pidgin English
https://matadornetwork.com/abroad/beginners-guide-to-nigerian-pidgin-english/
The absolute beginners’ guide to Pidgin
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/bbc-pidgin-english-language-africa-nigeria
Lipski: Isn’t Pidgin English just bad English? (PDF)
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jml34/pidgineng.pdf
West African Pidgin-English — an Overview: Phonology – Morphology (1967)
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/007542426700100106
Omniglot: The Origins Of Pidgin English
http://www.omniglot.com/language/articles/originsofpidgin.htm
Aziza: Aspects of the Syntax of Modern Nigerian Pidgin (PDF)
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/44/paper3122.pdf
Christine I. Ofulue, Ph.D: Nigerian Pidgin and West African Pidgins: A sociolinguistic perspective
http://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/f05/engl/ling/confs/spcl/home/docs/Ofulue
Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin)
https://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/naija.html
Quartz: The BBC’s newest service uses a language made up of street slang
https://qz.com/1058530/the-bbcs-newest-service-is-in-a-language-spoken-by-millions-that-youve-probably-never-heard-before/
BBC World Service announces biggest expansion ‘since the 1940s’
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37990220
Plandids are all over Instagram. What are they?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/08/07/plandids-all-over-instagram-what-they/544531001/
Most Young Millennials Love Piracy and Ad-Blockers
https://torrentfreak.com/millennials-love-piracy-ad-blockers-160920/
Urban Dictionary: striminal
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=striminal
Is TV Doomed? Two-Thirds of Young Millennials Use an Ad Blocker to Watch, Study Says
http://www.thewrap.com/ad-blocker-millennials-tv-industry/
You gonna just stream our new album and not buy it? Right in front on my salad ?????
— Grizzly Bear (@grizzlybear) 5 August 2017
Right In Front Of My Salad
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/right-in-front-of-my-salad
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About The Very NSFW “In Front Of My Salad” Meme
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/right-in-front-of-my-salad
‘Right in front of my salad,’ your new favorite meme, has a very NSFW origin
http://mashable.com/2017/08/03/right-in-front-of-my-salad-meme-nsfw/
Hearing aid uses your smartphone to target sound in a noisy room
https://www.engadget.com/2015/01/05/hearing-aids-use-your-smartphone-to-target-sound-in-a-noisy-room/
Daniel font, right in front of her salad
Ben’s extra GIFs:
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Hearing aid uses your smartphone to target sound in a noisy room
https://www.engadget.com/2015/01/05/hearing-aids-use-your-smartphone-to-target-sound-in-a-noisy-room/
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