First, consider the Tok Pisin transliterations below. Can you word out what the words are? What is the difference between transliterations on the right and on the left? Komitmen vs Amaunt Gavamen vs Peint Divelopmen vs Plent Spelling rule: Tok Pisin spelling rule states that there should not be any consonant clusters at the end of transliterated words, but we have a problem. Problem: If we remove -nt cluster at the end of the words on the right, we end up with meaningless wor

Tuhat tuhat Hatwok man Taitim bun taitim bun Tuhat tuhat Hatwok meri Brukim bun brukim bun Tuhat tuhat Hatwok pikinini Brukim het brukim...

If you have read my other 3 posts on Informal Writing Styles, you would have learnt about The omission of final sounds (mekim becomes...

Two other stylistic features of Tok Pisin are used here in this poem. At the word level we can observe 'added vowels' while at the...