Guess the Language
Womi o, luku aki. Te mi kai di fou de noo a ta-ko.
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
My uneducated guess, arrived at by reading it aloud until it meant something: some pidgin or creole including Spanish as a parent, meaning "woah man, look there. I could die for a taco now."
ReplyDeleteGood guess, Andy. One of the languages going into this creole is Portuguese.
DeletePortugese-Japanese, from the Japanese colonization of Brazil?
DeleteBut Andy, by translating "luku" as "look," you should have gotten one of the other main ingredients.
DeleteAnd no, no Japanese.
English?
ReplyDeleteYes, the language is Saramaccan, a creole of English, Portuguese, Fongbe, and other African languages, spoken in Surinam. The vocabulary is 50% English and 35% Portuguese.
DeleteThe quote is Eve talking to Adam, by the way.
Talk about a linguistic mind-F. If you will excuse my French.
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