OT: German West African colony?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/30/2012 10:11 AM, Amy West wrote:
>On 4/28/12 12:03 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>>Date:    Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:09:08 -0400
>>From:    Herb Stahlke<hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>
>>Subject: Re: OT: German West African colony?
>>
>>And of linguistic interest, there were also some German based creoles,
>>including Kuechendeutsch in Namibia and Unterdeutsch in Papua New
>>Guinea.  I heard anecdotally of a pidgin German in Cameroun, but I've
>>seen nothing written on it.   I understand the Keuchendeutsch is still
>>in use but Unterdeutsch is nearly extinct.
>>
>>Herb
>Vielen dank! Ich habe das nicht gewusst!
>
>(Think there's some value judgements inherent in the names of the creoles?)

Yes.  But I didn't look up what Keuchen were until just
now.   "Wheezing" German? (I knew it wasn't "cakes"; that would have
been "ue".)

Joel

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