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UpInArms

(53,206 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:03 AM Wednesday

wtf ... BBC?

What language is this?

Is this AI?

China dey offer parents $1,500 to encourage dem to born more children

Dem dey offer parents in China 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of dia children under di age of three in di goment first nationwide subsidy wey aim to boost birth rates.

Di kontri birth rate son dey fall, even afta di ruling Communist Party bin abolish di controversial one-child policy almost a decade ago.

Di handouts go help around 20 million families wit di cost of raising children, according to state media.

Several provinces across China get piloted some form of pay outs to encourage pipo to have more children as di world second largest economy face a looming demographic crisis.

Di scheme, wey dem announce on Monday, dey offer parents a total of up to 10,800 yuan per child.

More jibberish at:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cvgve328gjro

Editing to add that this seems to be a common type of reporting.

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wtf ... BBC? (Original Post) UpInArms Wednesday OP
Apparently it's real and directed towards West African nations who use a Pidgin dialect. Tommy Carcetti Wednesday #1
Thank you UpInArms Wednesday #4
It's their Nigerian Pidgin version dalton99a Wednesday #2
Thank you! I'd definitely wondered who the audience is for it. Mike 03 Wednesday #6
Thanks UpInArms Wednesday #7
No not AI: The "pidgin" articles is something the BBC has been doing for quite a while. Mike 03 Wednesday #3
I was just confused UpInArms Wednesday #5
Launched in 2017 muriel_volestrangler Wednesday #8

Tommy Carcetti

(44,048 posts)
1. Apparently it's real and directed towards West African nations who use a Pidgin dialect.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:07 AM
Wednesday
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

First I heard about this as well.

Mike 03

(18,659 posts)
6. Thank you! I'd definitely wondered who the audience is for it.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:10 AM
Wednesday

The BBC doesn't do anything lightly, so I knew it was important to some of their readers.

Mike 03

(18,659 posts)
3. No not AI: The "pidgin" articles is something the BBC has been doing for quite a while.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:09 AM
Wednesday

It is some kind of dialect they put up there. It blew my mind too when I first encountered it. I just try to find the same article written in the form of English I'm familiar with. I'm sure the BBC has an audience for that, but I have never researched it to find out more--just not that interested.

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