Sentences with phrase «like pidgin»

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(Just such a contact language, called International Sign Pidgin, has developed over the years at places like sign - linguistics meetings, where deaf people from many countries converge.)

And in just one generation, the children of these signers, like children of pidgin speakers everywhere, took their parents» signed pidgin and gave it grammar, spontaneously transforming it into the signed language of Al - Sayyid.

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.

Like Kimmerer, Nkanga grabs that swelling something, and attempts to describe it — in the pidgin song next to the colonizer's map, in objects, in performance — and thereby allows it to unfold around her — and us.