> The reference, as I'm sure Douglas Clarke will have spotted, is to
> Pinker's _The Language Instinct_, which discusses the "creolisation"
> of "pidgin" languages by the succeeding generation. The point is that
> the new generation learns the "pidgin" as its native language, and
> systematises it in the process.
In formerly colonized countries it is more complicated and wonderfully
interesting - the play, often satiric- between "official" English, say, and
Pidgin. They marry each other constantly. When I was in the Peace Corps in
Nigeria, in Pidgin I was a "Peace Corpsee"! Albino students - in good humor
- were also called, "Peace Corpsees" !
To isolate pidgin into "a system" without the interface of the colonial
language - and the interface with pidgin variations all over the Carribean
is like talking about the bowl without the gumbo. Funny how some anxious
scholars - or international capital - begs "a system" - a control device.
Pidgin probably has some great words for "system."
Coyote here.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
> I don't know whether Mark is saying that the "happening" of the 60s
> was socially enabled by lots of guilt-free bonking, or that at a
> psychological/metaphysical level the dissociation of sex from death
> freed people's minds in other ways. Maybe both. I've been conditioned
> by reading certain 2nd wave feminists to regard the "free love" side
> of it with a certain suspicion: whose freedom? On what terms? But
> maybe that's already a re-imposition of the very psychic boundaries
> that were being lifted, suspended at the time.
>
> Dominic
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