--- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
