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# the don
Gorgon?
(I helped save b3ta! isthisyou?, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:31, archived)
# the don as in.....
actually, I dont know wherethat comes from, just at uni, things that were the best, were "the don"
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Nick Riviera, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:34, archived)
# Innit Italian?
means the boss or head of something...
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:34, archived)
# as in Don Corleone
I suspect.
(I helped save b3ta! adverse_camber, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:36, archived)
# it's patois
suckaz
(I helped save b3ta! isthisyou?, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:37, archived)
# as in
the article don gorgon? Dem ting me understand seen?

etc.


nothing to do with dragons though.
(I helped save b3ta! crouchingbadger, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:40, archived)
# as in
(DON) GORGON: outstanding dreadlocks, a person who is respected (2,6)
(I helped save b3ta! isthisyou?, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:49, archived)
# but what is patois?
and bare in mind I have a Stephen Pinker book on my desk!
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Nick Riviera, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:42, archived)
# eh?
this is patois.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:52, archived)
# delicious
on toast, i hear
(I helped save b3ta! isthisyou?, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:53, archived)
# how is that different from a creole then?
.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Nick Riviera, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:54, archived)
# because
This is the definition of Creole.

You lazy bugger - now bookmark that site.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:58, archived)
# thats different to what my book says.
It says creole is second generation hybridisation of any language. So there!!
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Nick Riviera, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 16:03, archived)
# Yup,
actually I go with Pinker.

It's different from pigeon, mind.
(Amerella, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 16:07, archived)
# Language formed
from a european and an african language.
(Amerella, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:59, archived)
# oh
not this?
(I helped save b3ta! crouchingbadger, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:55, archived)
# thank you both.
I had an inkling it was that...
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Nick Riviera, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:38, archived)
# why, you...
(I helped save b3ta! adverse_camber, Tue 10 Dec 2002, 15:40, archived)