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Tag Archives: papua new guinea

  • The Bucket’s Special Minority Languages Unit, in consultation with some of the world’s  pre-eminent linguistic scholars, is proud to [...]

    Melanesian tok pisin: Lesson #1

    February 24, 2013
  • After spending three nights in the chaotic and lawless Papua New Guinea towns of Port Moresby and Lae,  Inga (age 30) will this morning commence [...]

    A daughter’s odyssey

    December 11, 2012
  • The most enjoyable and productive times I spent working with village people in Papua New Guinea occurred when I was based at Pindiu Patrol Post [...]

    The girls of Korbau

    July 20, 2012
  • Warning; Please do not proceed if bad language offends. . Melanesian Tok Pisin is the primary lingua franca used in Papua New Guinea, a country [...]

    God’s obscenity

    April 17, 2012
  • This story is to jog the memory of all the old PNG pilots who will never forget Siwea. It is also for all the arriving passengers who, during the [...]

    Siwea airstrip, Papua New Guinea

    April 9, 2012
  • There are occasions when even the most obstinate deeply-rooted cynic can be moved. In more ways than one. *       *       [...]

    Unto GOF a grandchild is born.

    March 23, 2012
  • Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Woe is me. Until 3 months ago Mrs GOF was not interested in the internet. Then she bought a new-fangled mobile phone [...]

    GOF in the doghouse. Again.

    January 20, 2012
  • Holy cow!  Some memories just never fade. *       *       *       *       *       *       *       [...]

    Please forgive this self-indulgence

    January 6, 2012
  • This story is dedicated to my loyal little band of village Rural Development Assistants at Pindiu, Papua New Guinea, during the 1970′s, who [...]

    Signals from God

    November 11, 2011
  • She remembers a little village where she was born in Papua New Guinea with thatched-roof huts perched high on a mountaintop six thousand feet up [...]

    A girl remembers;

    July 13, 2011

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