Feb. 22nd, 2007

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I don't get this. According to one paper cited by the post, Camfranglais "is spoken by secondary school pupils when they want to freely communicate among themselves in the presence of other members of the community without the latter being capable of making sense of the linguistic interactions going on." And one speaker is quoted as saying, "I was thinking that among Cameroonians we could speak our Camfranglais without risk of being understood."

But as I understand it, Camfranglais is simply a mix of French and English, with simplified grammatical structures, as spoken in Cameroon--I understood the proffered examples without too much difficulty. I probably wouldn't be able to understand a Camfranglaphone speaking quickly, but I'd attribute that to my poor mastery of French rather than any inherent incomprehensability to the language. Am I missing something?

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