Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

nehala OP t1_j0y5yym wrote

Reply to comment by InbhirNis in TIL that in Tok Pisin, the English-based creole language spoken by millions in Papua New Guinea, the vocabularly is often unrecognizably shifted in meaning from English, for example: "as ples" [ass place -> place of origin], "maus gras" [mouth grass -> moustache], or "belhat" [belly hot -> angry] by nehala

Yep! "Bilong" is Tok Pisin.

Actually, Tok Pisin only has two prepositions, "bilong" (of) and "long" (along, in, to, at,...)

So, "My place of origin/hometown is in California" would be "Asples bilong mi long California."

14