[I ate] a vanilla slice. Submitted by InbhirNis t3_10mfdne on January 27, 2023 at 7:45 AM in food No comments 3
InbhirNis t1_j0y5mui wrote on December 20, 2022 at 7:31 AM Reply to TIL that in Tok Pisin, the English-based creole language spoken by millions in Papua New Guinea, the vocabularly is often unrecognizably shifted in meaning from English, for example: "as ples" [ass place -> place of origin], "maus gras" [mouth grass -> moustache], or "belhat" [belly hot -> angry] by nehala Not 100% certain this was in Tok Pisin, but I remember reading that “bilong” (from the English “belong”) was used to indicate something related to something else in some manner, so “condom” became “gumi bilong kok” or “rubber bilong fuk fuk”. Permalink 19
[I ate] a vanilla slice.
InbhirNis t1_j0y5mui wrote
Reply to TIL that in Tok Pisin, the English-based creole language spoken by millions in Papua New Guinea, the vocabularly is often unrecognizably shifted in meaning from English, for example: "as ples" [ass place -> place of origin], "maus gras" [mouth grass -> moustache], or "belhat" [belly hot -> angry] by nehala
Not 100% certain this was in Tok Pisin, but I remember reading that “bilong” (from the English “belong”) was used to indicate something related to something else in some manner, so “condom” became “gumi bilong kok” or “rubber bilong fuk fuk”.