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In Trinidad, two main ethnic groups predominate —Afro-Creoles of African descent and Indians of Asian descent. These communities are of almost equal size (Table 1.1). While the population size of these two major communities is relatively the same, this has not always been the case. Can Trini...
Indeed, the word ‘pidgin’ derives from a Chinese pronunciation of the word ‘business’ in English. It was originally used to refer to Chinese Pidgin English (more on this below), before becoming more generally used to refer to any pidgin language. Do Pidgin Languages Develop into Creoles...
To rebel means to go against a government or ruler and resist them, which is what Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla did. Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla were a Mexican Roman priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence. This revolt did not go very well starting with the fact that it wa...
Evidence in support of this theory includes the tendency of children to make systematic mistakes which indicate a tendency to impose rules on what turn out to be grammatical exceptions (e. g. "I dided it" instead of "I did it"). There is also the ability of the children of migrant ...
Every girl is a Barbie! And every Barbie is DIFFERENT. AND DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING? Because now I want to know: When did Mattel create a Black Barbie? WELL. In 1968, Christie, Barbie’s best friend, arrived on shelves, and she is widely regarded as the company’s first orig...
“I told them ‘the dodo birds,’” he says. “And then it kind of comes back.” Though the dodo may be now synonymous with a kind of cursed stupidity (“going the way of the dodo” is a cliché on Mauritius as much as it is elsewhere) it did not waddle dumbly into extinction....
The scapes drooped and never did curl -as I understand is common in Rocamboles. One plant had 4 scapes! I knew something was wrong, so June 12 my husband and I dug both rows and hung to dry. The odd and disappointing part was -most bulbs were small, half were rounds and many had...
There is also the ability of the children of migrant workers to invent new languages known as creoles out of the grammatically incoherent pidgin spoken by their parents. Exactly what the deep grammar consists of is still not clear, but a basic distinction between nouns and verbs would probably ...