‘Woman troway di poo-poo’: BBC’s Pidgin website translation of ‘Tinder poo’ story goes viral

Twitter storm as new BBC World Service translation renders horror date tale into African dialect

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The BBC’s new website for readers of an African dialect has sent the internet into a frenzy with its write-up of a viral dating nightmare story in which a woman tried to “troway di poo-poo”.

BBC News Pidgin, which launched two weeks ago, “brilliantly rendered a story about a woman who became trapped while trying to retrieve her own faeces during a first date from hell,” says The Sun.

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