The BBC and Karine Jean-Pierre appear to be fully united in their jihad against the English language.
I had literally no idea such a thing existed until I came across a video from a British-funded outlet called BBC Pidgin, in which an African speaking some extremely bastardized and unintelligible version of English teaches viewers why taking their phones into the bathroom while they “poo-poo” is not hygienic.
No carry your phone enta toilet! Your mama, wife, or husband don cut you dis warning. Make you no carry your phone enta toilet!...
Toilet na where we dey poopoo and dis our poopoo dey carry bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Your eye no go fit see dem but dem dey dia and fit contaminate your phone.
BBC Pidgin uploads new video teaching viewers how to use the toilet pic.twitter.com/tKZieG9adc
— ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 (@kunley_drukpa) October 19, 2025
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Come to find out, BBC Pidgin, based in Nigeria, has been around for almost a decade.
Via Wikipedia (emphasis added):
BBC News Pidgin is an online news service in West African Pidgin English that was launched by the BBC World Service in 2017. It is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Pidgin, first used by British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century, has become one of the most widely spoken languages in West Africa, with up to 75 million speakers in Nigeria alone. However, it does not have a standard written form. In turn, the BBC developed a "standardised" form of Pidgin aiming to serve all West African speakers which has certain traits not found in other forms, such as increased usage of inflections.
After further digging, I stumbled upon an article published on BBC Pidgin, titled “Woman wan troway poo-poo, come trap for window” — the outlet seems highly preoccupied with feces and its effects on public health — via BBC Pidgin:
The woman wey dey learn gymnastics, just start to waka with Bristol student, Liam Smith, for di first time, when she take fear troway di poo-poo comot for window.
Instead make di thing land for garden, di poo-poo come jam between two windows wey no dey open wide.
Di lady decide to carry her thing back; she use head enter the small space wey di poo-poo bin dey, but na so she come trap for there, and trouble start.
Mr Smith say im no get choice but to call fire service make dem help remove di girl, along with her poo-poo.
Now, im don dey try raise money to repair di windows wey break, so e write all di tori for inside one University of Bristol crowd funding page.
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Understanding almost nothing of what this article was trying to convey, aside from something having to do with throwing poo-poo out the window, but my interest piqued, I found a description of the article and the story translated into actual English.
Via Daily Mail, September 2017 (emphasis added):
What's the one thing better than a story about a woman who had to retrieve her excrement after throwing it out of a window during a date? A version of the story with the word 'poo-poo' in the headline.
The BBC's Pidgin language website, which has launched two weeks ago, has published a version of the story for its Central and West African readers.
The dialect is spoken in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
The nightmare Tinder date story, where a girl attempted to dispose of her excrement after blocking a toilet at student Liam Smyth's house, was published on the website yesterday.
After failing to rid of the faeces, the woman panicked and threw it out the window, leading to her attempting to grab it after it became lodged between two windows.
With the help of Mr Smyth, she tried to climb between the gap to pick it up but got stuck, meaning he had to call the fire service to set her free.
Although I can appreciate that languages develop in a sort of natural evolutionary fashion based on geography and disparate cultures, is BBC Pidgin really necessary?
If white people had taken a native African language and made it unintelligible to the Africans who developed it, such an act of debasement would certainly not pass the progressive smell-test — accusations of “cultural appropriation,” etc.
This is probably overly sentimental and melodramatic, but I actually think the English language is beautiful. Objectively, it has the largest vocabulary and arguably has the greatest number of significant influences, from Latin to Greek.
Other languages are beautiful as well — I really like French — of course, but English holds a special place in my heart as my native tongue; indeed, aside from embarrassingly poor Thai and Spanish, enough to get by in some very basic interactions, I don’t speak anything else.
All of which to say, BBC Pidgin can only serve to further radicalize me and people like me.
At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, maybe that’s the point, no?
