Timeline for Meaning of ché in several French or Martiniquan Creole phrases in Wide Sargasso Sea
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| Aug 12, 2019 at 16:24 | comment | added | Tsundoku | @Spagirl I was aware of the joke. But did you notice that only the first quote comes from the parrot? | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 16:13 | comment | added | Spagirl | While I'm sort of funning with you, I'm also sort of not. Parrots will replicate not just the speech they hear most often, but the speech that is directed at them. People don't speak to parrots like they speak to people. 'pretty Polly' isn't a parrot's name, it is what people say to parrots called 'Polly'. So I'm suggesting that any evidence from a parrot's speech needs to be taken with a small piece of eight. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 15:50 | comment | added | Tsundoku | @Spagirl I'm only assuming that they're good imitators of speech. They may be more likely to copy grammatical mistakes they hear. Of course, if they only imitate part of a sentence, the remaining part may not be grammatical. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 10:12 | comment | added | Spagirl | Are you assuming parrots to have perfect grammar? :) | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 17:49 | answer | added | Gareth Rees | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 10, 2019 at 0:36 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Who's there? Darling Dolly, would work fine in English. I don't see why Qui est là? Ché Coco, shouldn't work in Martinique Creole, even if ché means something like cher. Dear isn't quite an exact translation of the French word cher, and we don't know the exact connotation and usage of ché in Martinique Creole, even if it means something like cher. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 21:38 | history | asked | Tsundoku | CC BY-SA 4.0 |