pidgin

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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

“It is time that this suffering ends for us all. This is what brought me here,” he said in pidgin English.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2021

But the effect is as vivid as the sassy, strong-willed narrator’s pidgin.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2020

“We hungry,” a ruddy-cheeked man announced to her in overly loud pidgin, miming the act of eating.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer