Tuesday, November 16, 2004

mi ata beni

I think you are right, based on what I know about Dutch, English,=20
Portuguese, Spanish, French and the way pidgin/creole languages diverge=20
from their parent languages: (this was an interesting language puzzle)

mi ata beni =3D I am fine

From the web [with comments]:

Papiamento is the native, though unofficial, language of the southern=20
islands of the Netherlands Antilles=97Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire. A creole=
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language with Spanish as its base, it contains numerous words from Dutch,=20
English, Portuguese, French, and many other languages. There are about=20
200,000 speakers.

Papiamento is spoken/used in Netherlands Antilles

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