| 单词 | pidgin |
| 例句 | Obiora said, rising, the fear in his eyes not quite shielded by the brazen manliness in his pidgin English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He favored a pidgin of his lost African tongue and slave talk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Those natives talked a kind of broken English called pidgin, which was not too hard to understand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “We hungry,” a ruddy-cheeked man announced to her in overly loud pidgin, miming the act of eating. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z So there was no more unavoidable delay in the bathroom, and it wasn’t long before we were all speaking at least a pidgin variety of French and German. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee went on, “It’s going to be a relief after that to go back to pidgin.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All this time Malcolm had heard Lyra and her little dæmon chattering away in their pidgin English. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Chew Wong outdid himself then with the meals that he served up, and the kitchen rang with pidgin English and cackling laughter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pidgin they expect, and pidgin they’ll listen to. But English from me they don’t listen to, and so they don’t understand it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The captain spoke pidgin Italian for my doubtful benefit, in order that I might understand perfectly, that nothing should be lost. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The bearded woman spoke an incomprehensible variety of Ghiscari, the goat boy some guttural sailor’s pidgin called the trade talk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Will said, “You know, it sounds funny to hear you use all those two- bit words. I’d swear to God you used to talk pidgin.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I tapped an artesian well of good feeling and made a small speech in my pidgin type of French. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t. I think it’s a matter of what is expected. You look at a man’s eyes, you see that he expects pidgin and a shuffle, so you speak pidgin and shuffle.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We were given cold water to drink that the boy explained in pidgin French was fresh and safe. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The writing is in pidgin English and Spanish and Mandarin and then languages I have never seen. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is a formal style of Yoruba that goes unheard in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, where its words get mixed into English and pidgin. 'Winter's Tale' by Shakespeare gets African reboot 2012-05-25T10:51:11Z Underneath it, he had written in pidgin: “Shady, Make we day go house.” Modern Love: The Hardest Lesson to Learn 2011-02-04T18:20:03Z Along the way, he encounters an alter ego, the Harlem hustler Carlyle Bedlow, another of Mr. Kelley’s recurring characters, for whom Mr. Kelley invented a language blending Bantu, pidgin English and Harlem slang. William Melvin Kelley, Who Explored Race in Experimental Novels, Is Dead at 79 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The movie's makers, reacting to the common use of pidgin Hollywood by Indian characters in normal westerns, allow the Sioux in this movie to speak their own language. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z He sings, most often, in a pidgin of English and Yoruba, confident that his meaning will get through even if listeners don’t recognize all the words. Burna Boy Has the Whole World Listening 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z And oh, yes, for good measure the goatherd’s narrative is written in a kind of pidgin English that the author invented just for the occasion. ‘Cloud Atlas,’ as Rendered by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis 2012-10-09T23:05:27Z Conversations between Onuzo’s characters move fluidly between Igbo, Yoruba, pidgin and English, demonstrating her skilled ear. Going AWOL in Africa’s Largest City 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Miyagi doesn't consider himself Japanese but Okinawan, adding an extra nuance to the character that almost makes up for all the pidgin English. Straight to DVD: Original "Karate Kid" on Blu-ray 2010-06-14T10:14:00Z Half of Harry Mathews’s novel “The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium” was written in unintelligible pidgin English, which may explain why 25 publishers rejected it. Harry Mathews, Idiosyncratic Writer, Dies at 86 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The frustrated American Indian replies — usually in some version of would-be comic pidgin English — "You talk all buzzard to me, and don't talk turkey." Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z My French is pidgin at best, but the rhythms of the piece – both physically and vocally, were enough to keep me entranced for over five hours of performance. Noises off: Don't leave Southwark Playhouse without a home 2011-08-02T14:53:37Z One of their productions was a version of Acis and Galatea sung to Handel's music in pidgin English. Anne Gee obituary 2011-01-24T18:40:14Z In addition to being suspenseful, “The Missing American” is wonderfully atmospheric, with people speaking mostly colloquial English, but also pidgin English and local dialects. Review | Kwei Quartey’s ‘The Missing American’ launches a new detective series. It’s a gem of a debut. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z But by the 1960s, it had long been stigmatized as a crude pidgin English. Audree Norton Dies at 88; Paved Way for Deaf Actors 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But the effect is as vivid as the sassy, strong-willed narrator’s pidgin. In Rural Nigeria, a Heroine Who Wants to Be Defined by More Than Marriage 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z This coming-of-age story, narrated in pidgin by a “sassy, strong-willed” Nigerian girl who wants to be a teacher, opens with her father marrying her off to a polygamous, abusive taxi driver. New in Paperback: ‘Dirt’ and ‘The Night Watchman’ 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z “I play cute ‘ethnics’ and employ my newly invented ‘universal ethnic accent, which is a coy pidgin English of no discernible authentic origin,’ ” Moreno noted wryly in her memoir. Rita Moreno: The timeless woman in Hollywood who can’t, and won’t, stop 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing. Review: In ‘The Wanderers,’ Two Marriages and a Movie Star 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Dobby the house elf speaks in "racially charged pidgin" and Goblins "embody many caricatured traits of stereotypical Jews". Harry Potter and the end of a pop-culture phenomenon 2011-07-12T18:59:01Z In return, he had to write down and translate for me a phrase of pidgin English. Modern Love: The Hardest Lesson to Learn 2011-02-04T18:20:03Z Legacy of language and the politics of that; in Nigeria, it was about pidgin English. ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ Gives Black Men Control of Their Story 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Like most of Fela’s songs, “Zombie” was written in pidgin English, for the widest possible comprehensibility. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z In parts of west Africa the standard pidgin English for the beast is "witch bird". Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z Nigerians speak something called pidgin English, and I knew I didn’t want to write in pidgin English because even the very educated people speak pidgin English. For Her Debut, Abi Daré Confronts ‘Dreams and Intelligence That We Kill’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Speaking in broken English, pidgin German and pantomime, the two exchanged stories about their war experiences and their lives. Journeys: German Town Where Opposing Soldiers Prevented Destruction 2010-05-28T07:49:00Z Throughout the club, the bright green walls are decorated with the quotation “Keep Hipco Burning,” a nod to the country’s take on American rap, which is performed in Liberian pidgin English. The Ease of Monrovia’s ‘Hipco’ Clubs 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z He spoke in pidgin and was the loyal partner of the crime-fighting ranger, often bailing out the masked avenger from treacherous situations. New Tonto, familiar feelings for Native Americans 2012-07-25T17:20:14Z The characters ping-pong around the globe as if geography were an afterthought and communicate via a pidgin English largely based on video games, which is their shared frame of reference. Neal Stephenson's Reamde: Virtual Reality Check 2011-09-20T09:00:00Z He puts the sentient simians on horseback and lends them the hand gestures and pidgin English of Native Americans from myriad horse operas. Richard Brody: Summer Movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z His lyrics, partly in pidgin, called out the Nigerian military dictatorship; at home he declared his Lagos house to be an independent territory. ‘Finding Fela,’ From Alex Gibney 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z These short reports, made in a pidgin of hashtags and airline codes, start in the early morning, with the European destinations, and continue through the day, often ending with Qantas. The Fortifying Pleasures of YouTube Cockpit Videos 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z 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. How a struggling single mother managed to write the great Hawaiian coming-of-age novel 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z 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. 5 Oscar winners of Asian descent you might not have known 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z There are versions in local pidgin English, Hausa, Kanuri and Fulani. Nigeria's military warns residents of bombings targeting bandits 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z "I can't relate with the message in Afrobeats but it's entertaining, I love the rhythm, the pidgin accent and I find them genuinely cultural - you can tell this is distinctly African." Why Kenyan music is drowned out by Nigerian sounds 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Wale and other lawmakers spoke at length, using a mixture of English, the official language, and the commonly spoken Melanesian pidgin. Solomon Islands leader faces no-confidence vote after riots 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z “It is time that this suffering ends for us all. This is what brought me here,” he said in pidgin English. Gunfire disrupts Cameroon prime minister's visit to separatist region 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes called pidgin English, the language is widely used and understood across regions and ethnic groups in the nation of 200 million people, although most books and newspapers on sale in Nigeria are in English. No-stress scripture: Nigerian Christians relish Pidgin Bible 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z One problematic thing was language — the guys from Hawaii spoke pidgin, they would be made fun of, and then they would get mad. Daniel James Brown, author of ‘The Boys in the Boat,’ discusses his latest, ‘Facing the Mountain’ 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z While walking through a mall in Accra, he overheard a couple chatting in the pidgin English spoken by Cameroon’s Anglophone population and immediately introduced himself. How video chat fuels the American deportation machine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Owie, who grew up speaking Nigerian pidgin, passed the time in isolation studying for an English test to work in the United Kingdom. The coronavirus is jeopardizing a ‘very, very finite’ workforce: Africa’s doctors and nurses 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z He reflected their ability to switch from simple English, to bombast, to peer-group slang, to pidgin English and native language. The Nigerian royal who loved to lampoon modern life 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z On Kearin’s first day in the booth, he was given a pidgin version of Swahili and Cherokee, but that method continued to fail and the overall mood was one of dejection. A history of Simlish, the language that defined The Sims 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The influences are vast and reflect the range of sounds and cultures that raised a generation of black British kids – Hus flits between pidgin English, patois and even cockney. Did you see what I done? How J Hus became the voice of young black Britain 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z This reflects the pidgin legacy of immigrants who came from Asia to work Hawaii’s sugar-cane plantations in the mid-19th century and had no time for the niceties of conjugation in their new language. The Enduring Appeal of Hawaii’s Preserved Fruits 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Yet while Tayap may have only a few dozen speakers, it is a more fully developed and mature language than Tok Pisin, a pidgin created by native tribesmen who worked on white plantations. Review | As a language dies, who will mourn? Should anyone? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Others walked down the squat rows of storefronts like door-to-door salesmen, inquiring about dishwasher openings, or any gig that required pidgin English instead of a résumé. Tan Vinh’s ode to the eclectic dining options in strip malls and their place in the American immigrant story 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z According to Dakolo, a man appeared and told her to get out of the car, get into the bus and speak to his oga – Nigerian pidgin English for boss. How ‘Nigeria’s #MeToo moment’ turned against rape accuser 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Throughout, Hus switches style like a boxer switches stance, murmuring in pidgin and patois before breaking into strait-laced English during the final verse. Did you see what I done? How J Hus became the voice of young black Britain 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z We didn’t speak the same language, so we communicated in a kind of pidgin English: don’t worry guys I got phantom princess no no no, you NOOB, dafuq. “Lulu” 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z We call to each other in gestural pidgins because although we may be optimal, we shall never be completely infinite. Reach out and touch someone 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z It questions the existence of the pidgin stage, a break in language transmission before rebuilding into the creole. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Although some critics discourage the use of pidgin, its supporters say it represents far more than a language. The BBC in Pidgin? People Like It Well-Well 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z They use a proprietary language that’s sort of like English, except a pidgin English written by Japanese people trying to speak English to American nerds. Here's why all your friends spent the holiday playing 'Animal Crossing' - Golf Digest 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z There’s the moment when I challenge Banks to a toast in my pidgin Russian. Arron Banks: ‘Brexit was a war. We won. There’s no turning back now’ 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z If pidgin languages create a simplified slang to foster cross-cultural communication, leetspeak deliberately complicates the root language, replacing letters with numbers and symbols and swapping characters. None of Us Are Safe From Getting ‘Owned’ 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z 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. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The phrase, a mix of pidgin, Creole, British and American slang, means “This child will be great.” Opinion | ‘Madame President’: The rise of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Though his party’s initials, SDF, stood for the Social Democratic Front, the hopeful among us decided that it stood for “suffer don finish”: pidgin English for “suffering is over”. 'With every inch, the challenge multiplies': me and my afro 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The engineers spoke Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian, Arabic, German and Japanese, though they mostly spoke in their own efficient pidgin and in math. The Great A.I. Awakening 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Set on a slave plantation at the end of the 19th century and written entirely in pidgin English; Mabey says she “couldn’t have chosen a more perfect first novel”. Oneworld: the tiny publisher behind the last two Man Booker winners 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z As children learned the pidgin as a native language, it became a creole—stabler and more grammatically elaborate than the pidgin. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z For years, Gullah was considered to be "pidgin English" – corrupted or badly spoken English that whites generally dismissed as the language of the uneducated. The Real Reason Clarence Thomas Rarely Speaks 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The star of the hsow so far has been referee Wayne Barnes, who has been shouting in pidgin French and giving impromptu scrummaging lessons to experienced international props, among other highlights. Wales 19-10 France: Six Nations 2016 – as it happened 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z There are other pidgins in other parts of the world, including in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Data inspires pride for Pidgin, the language of Hawaii 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Fela Kuti often sang in pidgin English because that way his message could get to other West African nations, and travel even beyond that. West Africa: A forgotten heritage revealed - BBC News 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z A lot of the kids spoke a local patois called pidgin. What Surfing Teaches You About Life 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z A lot of people said, why do you want to sing in pidgin. performer brings voice of Africa's pidgin to new opera 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The star of the hsow so far has been referee Wayne Barnes, who has been shouting in pidgin French and giving impromptu scrummaging lessons to experienced international props, among other highlights. Wales 19-10 France: Six Nations 2016 – as it happened 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z They flattered a network of Beltway insiders with celebrity-style coverage, palace intrigue described in an intimate court pidgin. Can Politico make Brussels sexy? | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z I had read about pidgin in James Michener’s “Hawaii,” but I hadn’t actually heard any yet. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z The word “doritos” is supposedly pidgin Spanish for “little bits of gold.” The dirty truth about Doritos: What you’re really eating on Super Bowl Sunday 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z “And I thought, actually, I’m going to pidgin this entire situation up!” performer brings voice of Africa's pidgin to new opera 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Weekends are festive and lively at Buka which means “a small local eatery” in pidgin English, with live band performances. Top Ten African Restaurants In New York City 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The film contains plenty of snippets of his infectiously danceable, politically charged songs — which commonly run on for 20 minutes or more, in sometimes incomprehensible pidgin English — along with interviews with those singing his praises. ‘Finding Fela’ movie review: The man and the myth behind the music Even I knew that this was a pidgin cliché—an overused exhortation. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z He sang and rapped in pidgin - a mixture of English, French and local languages. Cameroon's protest singer dies 2014-03-17T17:31:20Z It was not a case of people needing to communicate when they have no common language, a situation that can give rise to pidgin or creole. Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy 2013-07-14T21:37:25Z My Pikin means "my baby" in Nigerian pidgin, the language widely used in Lagos. Jail over Nigeria baby drug deaths 2013-05-17T14:51:33Z They shout at each other, overlapping in at least three different languages - Ga from the coast, Twi from the Ashanti region and pidgin English bequeathed by Christian missionaries and British colonialists. How a tap changed an African village 2012-12-18T07:34:32Z He abandoned, briefly, his normal pidgin and spoke standard English. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z When the next generation of pidgin speakers begins to add vocabulary and grammar and it becomes a distinct Creole language. How the internet is changing English 2012-12-14T00:46:46Z "Please don't fire," the man says in pidgin English. Exclusive: Video shows Nigerian troops shooting captives 2012-11-18T15:07:00Z The country's official languages are Spanish and French, and the main indigenous ones are Fang, Pichi - a variant of pidgin English imported from Sierra Leone - and Bubi. In pictures: Equatorial Guinea's oil makeover 2012-02-14T01:10:59Z "She," being but a love-sick white woman, of course talked in "pidgin" Fijian, but she had little more than a walking part. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z He rarely spoke, and then only in a pidgin that was unintelligible to me. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z From time immemorial they seem to have been persecuted by the Chinese, whom they regard as “foreigners,” and with whom their means of communication is usually “pidgin English.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z "Number one" means "proper," and "chop-chop" "quickly," in this language; while "play-pidgin" is merely "talk," and "top-side pidgin" is religion, or religious converse. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z South of that river the coast tribes speak largely pidgin English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z If there is one thing that reveals all the elements of Bahram’s life, it is his language, which is “silted with the sediment of many tongues — Gujarati, Hindustani, English, pidgin, Cantonese.” River Of Smoke - By Amitav Ghosh - Book Review 2011-10-09T02:30:56Z It was our conductor of last night, the one who spoke pidgin English. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z It was not Jack's pidgin to do anything until then.... The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z They left my legs free, because they intended me to walk, as I understood, to Putsewo, where the "pidgin" man said the Chinese troops were quartered. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellowing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull—the delicacy of a mining camp minus its vigor. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Because of the language mix, Armstrong says they sometimes communicated in "a kind of pidgin or shorthand." If Armstrong doped, teammates say they saw nothing 2010-10-01T17:14:00Z She speaks very little English, and Cho, using a kind of pidgin Korean, does his best to translate. Personal Liberties: Comic book artist Frank Cho has made a career of being bawdy and bold 2010-08-29T04:00:00Z The business between foreigners and natives at Canton is generally transacted in a jargon known as “pidgin English,” the Chinese being extremely ready in acquiring a sufficient smattering of English words to render themselves intelligible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The natives do not mix with the foreigners except in business-talk—'pidgin,' you know. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z He appreciates her delicacy, and, in his quaint pidgin English, begs to be allowed the privilege of giving her this little inexpensive trifle to take away. Japan A Record in Colour For pidgin English simply consists in taking English words and treating them like Chinese characters, that is, divesting them of all troublesome inflections and reducing them to a set of root-ideas arranged in logical sequence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Their sole endeavour was to raise their position: sich considerable machen, as the Great Elector said in his quaint pidgin German. German Problems and Personalities He answered them in pidgin English, and Teeny-bits became convinced, after they had looked about the place, that this was not the scene of his imprisonment on Friday night. The Mark of the Knife No," he replied, smiling broadly, "Melican-man is an American in the pidgin. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z They talked to each other, he found, in a strange pidgin—a speech composed mainly of verbs and profanity, a language that would have shocked a purist to a premature grave. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story But at that moment a head was put out of the companion, and a voice called him in pidgin English to go down. The Tale of Timber Town "You see my—my see you," observed Ah Sih King, reverting, as he deemed fitting, to pidgin. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, gypsies' jargon, and other irregular phraseology. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Tote in pidgin and keeler—make out of cedar and cypress. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 His wife, obedient creature though she was, spoke almost no pidgin—business—English; and besides that, she was a poor bargainer. The Pagan Madonna “Me tly,” he said in the “pidgin English” he had picked up in his travels, and reached out his hand for the bat. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour "In my case, 'pidgin' is not, let me hasten to say, necessary." Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China The celestial smirks and jabbers something in pidgin English, which not being able to understand you answer with a grunt and pass on. Life and sport in China Second Edition Feng, understanding perfectly the curious mixture of pidgin and Chinook, vanished soft-footed. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters She later found an intelligent Samoan named Leuelu who understood her pidgin Samoan perfectly and learned to carry out all her orders. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson "The colonel," as the consul was generally called, talked "pidgin" English, which is practically a dialect in itself, to the boat-women. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Poor lingo that "pidgin" Indian of the desert and the long ago, but it served its purpose. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Despite his anger and pain Frobisher could scarcely refrain from smiling at the quaint “pidgin” English, especially the phrase “q.t.” A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas This is not Braithwaite's pidgin but Woodward's and there was no help for it. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 Could I hope that they would be satisfied merely to come up to the bungalow, ask a few questions in pidgin English, and depart, leaving us unscathed? The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn The next was to procure a supply of the money current in the city, which was accomplished with the aid of the principal guide, all of whom were English, who could speak Chinese and pidgin. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics When the man was within twenty yards of the fugitives, he caught sight of their knives, and, stopping suddenly, exclaimed in pidgin English: 'What for knives? my plenty good Clistian man. Chatterbox, 1905. "What like man?" enquired the Bishop, in pidgin English. Civilization Tales of the Orient "What pidgin belong you?" he asked—meaning what is your business? An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma One always conversed with him in the pidgin variety. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Negro passengers on board the 'Senegal,' i. idiosyncrasies of, their 'pidgin English,' school. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Charlie's knowledge of 'pidgin' English was slight, but he concluded that 'first chop' meant 'very much,' and was pleased to find that he had made one friend so quickly. Chatterbox, 1905. At Rabaul, New Britain, on the 13th, a British Proclamation was read, with a special one in "pidgin" English for the natives. The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 Humbly I answered, "My belong Jesus Christ pidgin"; that is, I am a missionary, to which he instantly and with some scorn replied, "No dam fear!" An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma In this "pidgin" English he can express himself as in Chinese by merely changing the positions of the words:— "He wantchee my." China and the Chinese If anything, he was disposed to grin and indulge in high-pitched commentaries in "pidgin English" upon the unaccustomed amount of room. The Deserter I had a good one in the upper storey, or the "top-side," as it is expressed in "pidgin." Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War Meantime, as the doctor was splitting his breakfast orange, he heard a commotion in his office, two rooms removed: volleys of pidgin English, one voice in protest, the other dominant. The Ragged Edge To-day, for the first time, we have heard 'pidgin English' seriously spoken. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months I merely feel inclined to tell him that I can talk that sort of pidgin English better than he can. The New Jerusalem For the benefit of such readers as do not understand pidgin Spanish, it may be explained that these words signify, respectively, "go on," "stop," "straight ahead," "to the right," and "to the left." A Woman's Impression of the Philippines I was waited on mostly by a lad named Chung, one of the professors of "pidgin." Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War He sounded exactly like a worn-out phonograph record buzzing on a single note, and when he finally did manage to articulate, his "pidgin" English in itself was screamingly funny. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China In a month he had a tan, and his pidgin had come back. Joe Burke's Last Stand From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellowing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull—the delicacy of a mining-camp minus its vigor. Main Street That evening she told Stell, relating her news in that telephone pidgin English devised by every family of married sisters as protection against the neighbors. One Basket Guarding a house is "not their pidgin" as the Chinese say. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories Almost unconsciously he adopts the popular attitude just as he enlarges his vocabulary to include "pidgin English" and such unfamiliar phrases as "tiffin," "bund" and "cumshaw." Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China Kate had learned to talk on the island; she spoke pidgin from deep down. Joe Burke's Last Stand She tried to talk to him, partly by signs, partly in pidgin French, which, for some reason, she thought would be more comprehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English. Moon and Sixpence What Fong told cannot be given in his own words, recited in his pidgin English, broken by cautions of secrecy and digressions as to the impracticability of enlightening his young ladies. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California This 'pidgin English' runs down West Africa, except the Gold Coast and about Accra, where the natives have learnt something better. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Soosie, he told in his pidgin English, had been given to him by her uncle. Tropic Days But you may roam the world over, and you will hear no pidgin German. England and the War Of course, the foreign element mincing their "pidgin" English have given the Bowery an unenviable reputation, but there are just as good speakers of the vernacular on the Bowery as elsewhere in the greater city. How to Speak and Write Correctly I handed him a card as I spoke, and suddenly addressing him in "pidgin," of which, fortunately, I had a smattering: "Belong very quick, Ah Tsong," I said, sharply, "or plenty big trouble, savvy?" Bat Wing The second is a kind of 'pidgin English,' spoken amongst themselves, like Bolognese or Venetians when they have some reason for not talking Italian. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I His pidgin English, limited to a few words, was almost as unintelligible as his own rude tongue. Tropic Days Carew tried to talk to him, but could get little out of him, for he knew only the pidgin English, which is in use in those parts, and said "No more" to nearly every question. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life And I thought for once that her lapse into pidgin had been deliberate and not accidental. Tales of Chinatown "That is what makes their pidgin English so quaint," answered Miss Briggs. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert At first the boss failed to understand, for the blacks had little even of pidgin English. Confessions of a Beachcomber His pidgin English was difficult to understand, and Mr. Furneaux shared my view that he did not try to render himself intelligible. Number Seventeen Cherry Blossom in horrible pidgin English affirmed that all was well, all was happiness and delight and bliss in the realm beyond. Galusha the Magnificent Began in Italian and ended in pidgin English. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man But she was in no mood for the interchange of remarks in pidgin English. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life He gave an account to a friend of the suppression of a black rogue, a faithful report of which is presented as an example of unbowdlerised pidgin English. Confessions of a Beachcomber Dawkins had not been an hour in master's company before he knew that he had a pidgin to pluck. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush He said when a Frenchman says a girl is 'beaucoup belle,' he is using pidgin Latin. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches And then that fancy dancer, Miss Grace Somerset, comes in, and dern my skin, ef the old man didn't get to trembling and fidgeting all over, as she cut them pidgin wings. Drift from Two Shores He had made out enough of this story from the old serang's pidgin English to know that the Captain's native friends, one of them a woman, had perished in a mysterious catastrophe. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows For in this respect Chinese resembles Japanese, though in very little else, and pidgin English is nothing but the literal translation of the Chinese idiom into Anglo-Saxon words. The Soul of the Far East Sir Lucien usually spoke to Sin Sin Wa in English, and the other replied in that weird jargon known as "pidgin." Dope The courtesy due to a host prevented me from suggesting that if a Frenchman said 'beaucoup belle' he would be talking pidgin French. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches But his special friend was Lieskov, who carried the child about on his back, performed many droll antics to amuse him, and taught him words of pidgin Russian. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches |
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