Sentences with phrase «pidgin english»

The word chopsticks is supposedly pidgin English for «quick» (as in the phrase «chop - chop»), which is said to have come into use because one of the Chinese words for the utensil literally means «bamboo object for eating quickly.»

This is among the most impressive sculptures ever made honoring Mami Wata — pidgin English for «Mother of Water» — an auspicious being of great spiritual power celebrated throughout Africa and the African Diaspora.

Known as Bislama, the local language of Vanuatu has been derived from a mix of Pidgin English that first spread over the Vanuatu archipelago at the turn of the 20th century.Today nearly 95 percent of Bislama is based on English with a few French words and «island language» mixed in.

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A large percentage of students in urban school districts also arrive speaking their home languages: Mexican American Language / Chicano English, Hawaiian American Language / Pidgin English, and American Indian Language / Red English respectively.

Payne plays the character's pidgin English for broad, borderline racist humor, while also supplying her with not one but two bathetic tearjerker monologues.

As always, the brand of humor relies on simplistic stereotypes associating, say, Asians with eating rice and speaking pidgin English, blacks with acting a fool and being well - endowed, and now, the French with smelling and being rude.

For «cargo» — Pidgin English for trade goods — has long flowed along the indigenous channels of communications from the seacoast into the wilderness.

«The party go spoil for north, dem no stop a, the thing wey e go happen for north...,» he stated still in pidgin English.

It just cracks me up to read Salero's pidgin English diatribes about atheists being nothing more than apes, when the dolt can't string together even one grammatically correct sentence.

Its roots are in the experience of 19th - century sugar - cane plantation workers, who in pidgin English told stories of common suffering and hope.

Not exact matches

He settled in to his new environment, attending school and studying English while speaking French and Cameroonian pidgin at home.

I helped black and other students new to the islands understand, for example, that Pidgin, a creole language spoken in the Hawaiian Islands, is not «broken English,» as it is often described.

With a cast of characters from such diverse backgrounds, the languages they speak are also varied, ranging from proper English to pidgin and patois, and the Chrestomathy in the appendix is helpful as a glossary for some of the words used, as well as expanding on Neel's story.

They've got things in their heads like Kylie Minogue songs, which Ma has brought from the old civilization, but what they've come up with is a strange kind of island culture, island religion, and a peculiar (occasionally pidgin) form of English.

At that time, the pidgin - English expression «chow chow» described the small, miscellaneous items within a ship's cargo that weren't itemized.

Excludes Oceanian pidgins and creoles and «Aboriginal English».