Typing with an Accent

photo: Sebastian Niedlich

I always tell our good friend Citizen Feathers that you can hear her slight Venezuelan accent in the way she types her English text. I thought this was fairly unique, but here is a more extreme example. It’s typed in Nigerian pidgin English and you can hear the rich accent as you read it. Here’s an entire dictionary of this peculiar alternative English. One of my favorites (which I actually use from time to time), is “wahala,” which means a confused and troubled situation, like the Niger Delta for instance.