Question about "Krio"

[Wilson Gray]

I've heard Sranan Tongo, Jamaican, Panamanian, and Tok Pisin spoken
natively. They struck me as being at least as foreign as Dutch and
German, which are also semi-understandable to a monolingual English
speaker.

So, IMO, FWIW, I consider that Krio is foreign enough for thesis work.

--
-Wilson
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Bethany Dumas <bethany.dumas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Colleagues, an administrator at UT has sent me the question below. I need
> your help.
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> [She begins her query with a quotation from Wikipedia:] Krio is an
> English-based
> creole<https://tmail.utk.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=3D9b63f4e29d544954906fb716622=
> 3cabe&URL=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fEnglish-based_creole_lan=
> guages>similar
> in many respects to Nigerian
> Pidgin English<https://tmail.utk.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=3D9b63f4e29d544954906=
> fb7166223cabe&URL=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fNigerian_Pidgin_=
> English>and
> Cameroonian
> Pidgin English<https://tmail.utk.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=3D9b63f4e29d544954906=
> fb7166223cabe&URL=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fCameroonian_Pidg=
> in_English>,
> but it has its own distinctive character. It is also similar to
> English-based creole languages spoken in the Americas, especially the Gulla=
> h
> language<https://tmail.utk.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=3D9b63f4e29d544954906fb7166=
> 223cabe&URL=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fGullah_language>,
> Jamaican Patois<https://tmail.utk.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=3D9b63f4e29d54495490=
> 6fb7166223cabe&URL=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fJamaican_Patois=
> >(Jamaican
> Creole), and Belizean
> Creole<https://tmail.utk.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=3D9b63f4e29d544954906fb716622=
> 3cabe&URL=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fBelizean_Creole>.
> It also shares some linguistic similarities with non-English creoles, such
> as the French-based creole languages in the Caribbean.
> A student has asked to use this language as his foreign language. Â He hopes
> to get tested at an institution that teaches the dialect. Â Would you
> consider this a =93foreign=94 language?
>
> I just returned from Belize and listened to a lot of English Creole, and
> while I couldn=92t understand it very well, there were many phrases I easil=
> y
> picked up.
>
> What is your position?
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> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Bethany
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