Timeline for Why does Pidgin come easier than Standard English?
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| Jul 26, 2012 at 5:20 | vote | accept | BillyNair | ||
| Jul 16, 2012 at 19:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/224950723400572929 | ||
| Jul 14, 2012 at 4:26 | answer | added | user483 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 17:27 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jul 12, 2012 at 5:10 | comment | added | BillyNair | I have absolutely no problem with it going to another site that is better suited to take it, and I have no problem with someone else editing it to remove me out of the picture. I just have no background or research to generalize it, but I am sure I am not the only "bilingual" person to have a similar experience. Should I say "I have noticed people..." instead of my experience? | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 21:03 | comment | added | waiwai933 | Just to let you know, I've spoken to the mods on Linguistics, and they'd be happy to take the question if you edit it a bit to lessen the focus on this specific case and make it a bit more general (no need to over-generalize, but a little bit would be nice, so I understand). | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 6:32 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 3:28 | comment | added | BillyNair | @Tolerance72 - Because my parent spoke English I felt that my English was "standard". We spent a year in Idaho and the first few months people kept saying that they couldn't understand me. | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 2:51 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't claim to be a linguist, but I'd have thought fairly obviously the reason you think it's easier to speak Hawaiian Pidgin than "Standard English" is because that's what you grew up with. | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 2:47 | comment | added | Tolerance72 | I'm confused by the phrase "...at home I spoke [what I thought was] Standard English" What was the actual language primarily spoken at home (particularly before you first went to school)? | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 2:17 | answer | added | Damkerng T. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 1:23 | comment | added | Paola | Thank you for the link you provided. I've read the Wikipedia page with interest, and now I'm looking forward to reading any answer which may be supplied. | |
| Jul 11, 2012 at 0:56 | history | asked | BillyNair | CC BY-SA 3.0 |