Tok Spanluvietish

So I've decided to invent a new language. It's called Tok Spanluvietish and includes a select mishmash of Tok Pisin, Spanish, Luganda, Vietnamese, and English. It goes something like this:

"Hola amigos, ogamba ki?"
"Chúng tôi khỏe. And you?"
"Mi amamas tru. Dispela tok está rât dẹp."

Tok Spanluvietish will come in very useful whenever I'm speaking to a group consisting of Papua New Guineans, Latinos, Ugandans, Vietnamese, and Americans. Too bad that will likely, um... never happen. hm. Instead it mostly confuses. The other day I was eating lunch (phỏ gà, mmm!) at a little restaurant near Hanoi University when I saw a girl pull out a Spanish dictionary. A Vietnamese learning Spanish! Super! We talked in a mix of Spanish, English, and Vietnamese, but then a Luganda word would pop out of my mouth and it was only her confused look that made me realize I was speaking another language. Thus the need to invent and promote Tok Spanluvietish. It may very well solve the world's problems by bringing people from multiple continents together. I think I'm on to something. '-)

(ps--more to come soon on my recent trip to Indonesia as well as pictures from October)