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<font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 07 February 2007 - Volume 09</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L 'Language varieties' 2007.02.06 (06) [E/German]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">From Karl-Heinz Lorenz, Gabriele Kahn and Reinhard Hahn;<br><br>About "Kanak-Sprak, Kanakisch etc."</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">.....
a simplified German mainly spoken by Turkish youths in Germany but also
influential on young people's language and German Slang.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Not
unique to German. Adoption of Afro-Caribbean argot in "trendy" English
is common, best shown in spoof form by the character Ali Gee, created
by actor/writer Sacha Baron Cohen: "Me is 'avin' a good tahm 'ere,
innit?" (I'm having a good time here, aren't I?). Baron Cohen, and the
people he spoofs, are white. Such white psuedo-Caribbeans are
sometimes referred to derisively as "Wiggers" here.<br><br>From Ron: <br>* from Hawaiian <span style="font-style: italic;">kanaka</span> 'human being', 'man', 'mankind', typically 'indigenous person(s)', developed from Polynesian
<span style="font-style: italic;">tangata</span>
lit. "that/those that have been (here) before," originally used to
refer to Polynesians transported as laborers to Queensland
("Kanakaland"), Australia -- possibly introduced into German via
sailors' jargon <br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The
Queensland "indentured labourers" brought by the notorious
Blackbirders, were mainly from the Melanesian islands, especially East
New Britain and New Island and theSolomons group. The Lingua Fanca
they developed in the canefields, and ultimately took home, is the
basis for Tok Pisin.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Paul Finlow-Bates</font></div><font size="2"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></font>
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