Things You Need To Study (A Review of CAPE Communication Studies)

There are many 'rules' of Creole. (ignore my cynicism). Here are a few of the main ones. This is a popular question in Paper 01A, so know it!  Habitual action is shown by the use of the word 'does' before the verb in the sentence  She does be real annoyin sometimes  In Creole nouns that are always plural in Standard English are used as both singular and plural Ah ha to go buy a pants today. Jenny bring a scissors to school to stab up Leroy for stealing she man Creole speakers use double negatives. Alot Mary doesn't want no mango from he yard cause he is a obeah man We (Creole speakers) replace the consonant cluster 'th' with 'd' Someone dung dere next to de parlour steal de blasted foul dat meh mudda did give meh  Omission of the 'g' in past participles   He does study be jumpin dem fence  Doh feel yuh could be playin up in yuh arse here inno! Diz not yuh mudda house! Silencing of the end...

Okay this is important. This comes phrased in all sorts of strange ways but basically every year it comes. So know this shit.  Language is  Human  - It is only spoken/written/used by humans for communication. The parrot doesn't know what he's talking about. Don't listen to him.  Language is  verbal  - it doesn't matter whether it's written or oral...words are still involved.  Arbitrary  - there is no fixed association between the words in a language and the objects or ideas it signifies or represents. Objects have different words in different languages. (book, libre, livre all mean well...book, they all mean the same thing but they are different words.) Similarly the same word can have different meanings in different languages (fag in American slang is a derogatory term for a homosexual, in British slang it means a cigarette.)    Systematic  - language is rule...