Showing posts with label Grafi-larmoni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grafi-larmoni. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2009

How to Ecrire en Kreol Jaldi Jaldi

Simp terib sa. U plim nek ena ekut ou zorey.

One of the main reasons people don't write in kreol is that they say it's complicated in the sense that some words can be spelled in more ways than one. Hey, this is something that all languages had to deal with. Was it a piece of cake to learn where to put all these terrifyingly complicated accents in French? We just need some rules as to how to write things in there. The good news is this has already been done with the grafi-larmoni.

Another reason is that kreol is apparently a vulgar language. Are these people saying that one cannot be vulgar in French or in English?

The fun thing about creole is that you can probably contribute new words to its dictionary given that it's a relatively new language. For instance sometime back I suggested that 'political animal' could be translated into politichiens. I guess politisat is acceptable too.