F.02Notebook
Miscellaneous index

Vanuatu: Names, Creoles, Crossings

Notes on Bislama, Lapita, colonial naming, and how language remembers movement.

02 July 20265 min readWilliam Chen

A place name can hold an error long after the moment of mishearing has vanished.

Bislama records contact in a different way: not as a fossil but as a language continually used and remade.

These are early field notes toward a larger interest in Oceania, colonial history, and the maps hidden inside words.

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