Languages (was Re: [Sca-cooks] globetrotting)

[Elaine Koogler]

It may be a synthesis, like the language we used when I was living in Papua
New Guinea...Melanesian Pidgin.  It was a conglomerate of German, English
and Melanesian...so we got words/phrases like "haus bilong Got" for church,
"haus bilong sic" for hospital...and my favorite which I still use on
occasion, much to the frustration of those who don't understand, "Em i long
long tru"....He's crazy!

Kiri
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> I've always been wondering about Afrikaans. Is it a mix of Dutch and Zulu
or
> Dutch and English or is it a synthetic language like Esperanto?
>
> Misha