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[erik hansen]

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:
> Klaus Major wrote:
> 
> >> speaking as a bilingual (English &
> Okiebonics),
> > 
> > ????
> > 
> > Okiebonics???
> > 
> > I would really love to know what language
> THAT is... :-)
> 
> It's called Boontling (or in Boontling simply
> "Boont"), one of the world's
> longest-lived artificial languages, predating
> Esperanto.  It's spoken only
> by a small community of old-timers in a
> northern California hamlet called
> Boonville:
> 
> <http://www.avbc.com/visit/boontling.html>
> <http://www.connectedtraveler.com/zeese.html>
>
<http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/linguistics/news/boontling.htm>rooms.

thanks for the Booneville Lingo excursion.

Okiebonics is something else, though.
it is a kind of Southwestern US analogue to
any of the local Bauern dialects.
PlattDeutsch in a cowboy hat.
many parallels with Black English (aka Ebonics)

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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