Word: pidgin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teak grove. The van with the small U.S. flag on the windshield startles villagers and city folk alike. Americans are a rare species in Viet Nam, and most are mistakenly greeted in Russian by children and adults. But when the reply is "Nyet Lien- So, Mee" (Russian-Vietnamese pidgin for "Not Soviets, Americans"), Vietnamese, especially in the South, do happy double takes. This is in part due to an economy that once benefited mightily from a seemingly endless flow of dollars. "Before, there were many Americans and good tips," says one Saigon bartender who now makes the equivalent...
...handful of survivors who refused to leave their lifeless villages. In Cha, Kumba Ndongabang sat beneath a thatched platform, staring at the two graves where his five wives are now buried. "All my women die," he grieved, his voice rising and falling with the simple rhythms of the native Pidgin English. "If I go, who make home for me? Where I go? Where I find home? Where life...
...World War II. USIA Director Wick has made combatting Soviet propaganda a personal crusade. On occasion, he has gone overboard. Shortly after taking over the information agency in 1981, he produced a worldwide television extravaganza called Let Poland Be Poland, which featured Frank Sinatra crooning Ever Homeward in pidgin Polish. The show drew howls of ridicule. But Wick has scored some coups. It was the USIA that put together the tape recording, played with such damning effect at the United Nations, of the voice of a Soviet fighter pilot as he coolly shot down Korean Airlines Flight...
Lapan, or chief, and promptly crowned with a dog's-tooth headpiece containing a beaded Union Jack. The Prince thereupon declared in Melanesian pidgin English: "Wuroh, wuroh, wuroh, all man men bi-long Manus." Translation: "Thank you, all men and women of Manus." Well, what else could...
...that surrounded John Paul's visit to South Korea, the Pope seemed to revel in the enthusiastic reception that greeted him in Port Mores by, the capital of Papua New Guinea. The Pontiff won many hearts when, at a Mass, he said the Lord's Prayer in pidgin English, the most common local patois. "Papa bilong mipela, yu stap long heven . . ." At the local sports field he watched benignly as bare-breasted women in grass skirts chanted hymns and drummers sporting feathered headdresses pounded out an accompaniment on hollow logs covered with animal skins. When the Pope gave...