Word: pidgin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Linguistic Imperialism? Some critics have accused Ivor Richards of cooking up a sort of pidgin English. No criticism annoys him more. Though he rewrote Plato's Republic in 1,000 Basic words, his sole interest in Basic, he says, is to aid in clarifying thought and to simplify language education...
Last week many Chinese girls heard the traditional pidgin-English farewell: Long Time No Come No See. The lavish, profiteering drama of the International Settlement was ending. But outside the Settlement's barbed-wire fences there was a Shanghai that would remain much the same - the teeming, filthy, odorous native city of 3,500,000 Chinese, the Shanghai described by André Malraux...
...most earnest," he says in his much-better-than-pidgin English. "We maintained ever since opening Japan 87 year ago good relations you and us. Most of time we're happy hours. Now Japanese and United States policy, they are many divergencies. But human being must be able to make some formulas." Last week, as he had been ever since his appointment as Ambassador, Admiral Nomura was a man in search of a formula. There was not much chance that he would find anything but a temporary equation...
...wind blowing in from the sea, the campaign spread over Europe. V, which stood for victory in English and victoire in French, became vryheid (freedom) in Dutch, vitezstvi (victory) in Czech, vitestvo (heroism) in Serbian, and in Norwegian ve vil vinne, which means just what it sounds like in pidgin English...
Sirs: After reading your pidgin English version of Mose Simms's departure from St. Mary's University [TIME, April 28], I want to protest the wisecrack made in the first paragraph of your story, which was apparently written after a night of struggles with paranoia...