Obami: The New Language Of Barack’s O-Barmy Army
HOW do we describe Obama? We need a new language. Cue the teleprompter:
Last night I went to a party in Tokyo to celebrate the election, and got inspired beforehand to make a language named after Obama. Actually, the language was already around, but I gave it a new nickname, Obami…
Obamo, Obamas, Obama…
The Obami language is inspired by pidgin languages, like Hawaiian pidgin, and in addition to words from European languages, it has a lot of words from Swahili (a language spoken in Kenya) and from Indonesian. I know that Obama is basically a monoglot, but still, he’s an inspiration!…
I’d love it if this could become part of the new international dialogue that I hope Obama will inspire.
It’s a short lexicon based on a million nunaces of “hope” and a further 550,000 variant son “change”, which in Obami is itself a changeable word, appearing as “no change”, “plus ca change” and “got any spare change?”…
Posted: 10th, November 2008 | In: Politicians Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 12th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I’m happy to stick with Esperanto.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:30 am
ah, but he never had his very own Death Cult…. or did he…??
November 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
All hail King Obama of can’t-do-wrong.
It’s getting boring now and I actually feel for the man because when the honeymoon is over and he does something wrong (and, being human he will) they’ll be all over him like a rash.
We just lurve to build em up and then knock em down. I mean, I remember when Tony Blair was being hailed as the new Messiah.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
November 10th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
“baracks” was the word that sprang to my mind….?
November 10th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Obami will have a lot of work to do to catch up with Esperanto.
Esperanto is now within the top 100 languages, out of 6,800 worldwide, according to the CIA factbook. It is the 17th most used language in Wikipedia, and in use by Skype, Firefox and Facebook.
Native Esperanto speakers, include George Soros, Nobel Laureate Daniel Bovet, and World Champion Chess Player, Susan Polger. The World Esperanto Association enjoys consultative relations with both the United Nations and UNESCO.
Evidence can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
November 10th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
What a load of ‘Jargon’