Also, Pidgin hardly follows standard grammatical rules so "you can lose things like verbs", by saying: 'I dey go' to mean 'I'm going'.

“My kids shouldn’t be leaving my room with just an understanding of basic grammatical rules and sentence structure,” said Armstrong, who graduated from Augustana College.

He remembered his first attempts to learn German and Spanish, and being cowed in the face of all their particular grammatical rules and irregularities.