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Pidgin English

  • 06-08-2003 9:54am
    #1
    hedgetrimmer
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    A good friend of mine who is an author, and one of the founding members of Bizzare magazine (now left) was talknig to me a while back about the official recognition of pidgin English, citing a few words.

    I tought the most fascinating was the one that indiginous inhabitants of countries upon which missionaries impressed themselves came up with for Helicoptor

    "Choppy-choppy himb'longJesusChrist"

    Anyone aware of a dictionary?


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  • #2
    simu
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    A pidgin is a language used for communication between groups of ppl with no common language for trading etc, usually takes most of its vocab from one of those languages.

    If a pidgin becomes a mother tongue for a generation of kids, it is called a creole - a "proper" language in its own right.

    There are (or have been) many different Jamaican, Asian, African... varieties of pidgin English - you'd need to find out what country your friend was talking about.


  • #3
    hedgetrimmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭hedgetrimmer


    He was talking about a new universal Pidgin English language being finalised AFAIK


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