Word: pidgin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ground with a broken ankle covered by his chute. In perfect English he said to McLean: "Will you take me to Dungavel to see the Duke of Hamilton?" Instead, McLean took him to his cottage, called the Home Guard. The local Home Guard officer arrived, sternly asked in pidgin-English: "You Nazi enemy?" Hess asked again to see the Duke...
...about a bit of pidgin English? Sometimes it is very expressive, as you well know. When in Yunnan recently, I asked a Chinese what he thought of things generally in the world. Being a businessman rather than a scholar or an official and having come from South China he replied in pidgin English "Belly bad. Can do, no can do, what fashion?" which translated into good Shakespearean English reads "Very bad. To be or not to be. That is the question." In Hong Kong, I asked a Chinese what the Chinese thought of the Japanese. He replied "Chinaman think Japanman...
...wives," says Diouf, "are a necessity for every normal man. A third is apt to be expensive and thefourth is a downright luxury." He loves practical jokes, such as collecting a huge crowd of Frenchmen on the banks of the Seine by pointing at the river and jabbering in pidgin French about how big and dangerous French crocodiles...
Then, through pidgin English, the young men would help translate. Oliver also found it helpful to record the ordinary talk of the natives overheard while they were at work in the fields or chatting in the village...
Sweeping across the U. S. last week was the latest fad, successor to Knock-knock, Where's Elmer?. Handies, etc.: Anything too silly or salacious to say right out was being dressed up in pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts...