Trivia

[David Counts]

Srikes me that along with trivia, part of the problem for anyone dealing
with this is trying to decide when one is dealing with a foreign "loan" into
TP and when the speaker has been code-switching -- dipping into his/her
"other language store" to grab a term felt to be appropriate and/or
intelligible to the audience.  Example:  in the midst of a squabble about
someone having climbed a compound fence surrounding a village house in West
New Britain, the injured party (a man versed in several languages including
English) was heard to yell at his opponent: "i gat lo! yu no ken brukim
premisis bilong mi!"

What was he doing:  I assumed code swtching at the time, but now I am not so
sure.  Em tasol liklik bagarap billlong mi.

David Counts