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."
Yes, 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.
Declares LewRockwell.com : "All of this means that while the government has been artificially propping up the economy and 'stimulating' it through artificial means, peoples’ perceptions of economic life have been transformed into that which was intended by the central planners: the economic crush is over, our government cured all the problems, things are great again, go back to your old ways. Rinse and repeat."
Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach contained some interesting musings on recursion, computation, self-reference, and so on. But of course is main "oomph" was that it was going to use all of these musings to explain consciousness. And the explanation? "This is it -- this is what consciousness is . Consciousness is that property of a system that arises whenever there exists symbols in the system which obey triggering patterns somewhat like the ones described in the past several sections" (385). Can you imagine someone in a real science, one that makes real discoveries, offering an "explanation" like that? "Planets just are those celestial objects that move in the sky in that funny way." "Atoms just are those things that cause chemicals to form in the patterns they do." "Evolution just is the process of new species coming into being." Such a phony would be laughed right out of the scientific community. In a real s
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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