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L O W L A N D S - L - 07 February 2007 - Volume 09

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L 'Language varieties' 2007.02.06 (06) [E/German]

>From Karl-Heinz Lorenz, Gabriele Kahn and Reinhard Hahn;

About "Kanak-Sprak, Kanakisch etc."

..... a simplified German mainly spoken by Turkish youths in Germany but
also influential on young people's language and German Slang.

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.

>From Ron:
* from Hawaiian kanaka 'human being', 'man', 'mankind', typically
'indigenous person(s)', developed from Polynesian tangata 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

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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.

Paul Finlow-Bates

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