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Example sentences for: pidgin
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But in the Sydney language only, its familiarity to English ears being the result of its taking on in Australian pidgin as a term of approbation from as early as 1790.
The language even reflects this, for the Pidgin word for `birthday' is Krismas.
No less an authority than Professor Robert A. Hall, Jr., of Cornell University, one of the world's leading figures in Romance linguistics and historical linguistics, the author of dozens of scholarly books and hundreds of scholarly articles, states that it derives ultimately from Cantonese Pidgin Portuguese through Chinese Pidgin English ( Pidgin and Creole Languages , Cornell University Press, 1966, p.
I am not, alas, of their faith, but I had to admire the command these old-timers had of tribal languages in general and of pidgin in particular.
It refers to His vulgar vocabulary and facility in slang, but—more important—it offers oddities like a reference to learning by rote on page 105 and to Pidgin on page 41: upon looking both up, I found nothing about rote learning on page 105 and nothing about Pidgin on page 41; nor was either listed in the sparse index.