pidgin
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"To communicate, the Africans borrowed some vocabulary from the British and incorporated their own pronunciation and syntax to form a pidgin thing. Over the generations, it became perfected and developed structure and grammar."
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
Trying to free herself, she began to write in Hawaiian pidgin, a language she both grew up surrounded by and was told by others — including her mother — to avoid out in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
Interviewed about her career, her son Michael Hood told Entertainment Weekly that he once asked her why she would agree to do roles in pidgin English.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
The writing is in pidgin English and Spanish and Mandarin and then languages I have never seen.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
His father, Derek Bickerton, an influential linguist specializing in pidgins and creoles, had a Ph.D. from Cambridge University but called himself a “card-carrying autodidact.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2022
It’s not all bad; I’ve got a whole new suite of creoles and pidgins that I’m enjoying, plus they’ve given me contractions.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2018
The traditional idea that creoles come from pidgins may be fascinating, but it risks seeming condescending—by positing that creoles have simpler grammars as a result.
From Economist ● Feb. 1, 2018
There were also, among others, 1,440 speakers of Somali and 370 of "Creoles and pidgins."
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2012
When you and your friends come flyin' in at first-floor windows like pidgins, Mr. Ventimore, you must expect some notice to be took.
From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey
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