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...irony is both sad and delicious. The Little Nyonya, a Singaporean television serial about a Chinese Peranakan family that concluded in the middle of January, was told entirely in Mandarin, a language whose creeping bid for dominance in Singapore has lately eclipsed Baba Malay - the pidgin Malay at the heart of Peranakan culture. But in a sly act of revenge, the immensely popular serial triggered a boomlet in all things Peranakan - like the batik fabrics Peranakan women used to stitch their sarong kebayas, worn most famously by Singapore Airlines' stewardesses, or the lavender-and-purple-colored porcelain bowls from which...
...Hawaiian soil. In August, when he returned for a family vacation in Honolulu, Obama was quick to mention the local restaurants where he ate when he was growing up and the food he had been craving on the campaign trail. He even used the common island greeting "Howzit," a Pidgin English version of "How's it going?" "How's everybody doing today?" Obama asked the crowd that turned out to greet him. "Howzit?" Then he talked about going to lunch: "I might go to Zippy's. I might go to Rainbow Drive-In. I haven't decided yet. Get some...
...certainly has impressive hopes for itself. Perhaps its pure ambition was responsible for the book’s place on the short list for the Man Booker Prize. Ghosh juggles four or five storylines, a handful of countries, and a variety of languages (both official and pidgin) across 500 pages—and “Sea of Poppies” is only the first book in a planned trilogy. In an interview with British newspaper The Guardian, Ghosh called the books the Ibis trilogy, after the former slave-ship that is this novel’s real principle character...
...jargon of economics has, in fact, become a sort of lingua franca for many at Harvard, a bizarre pidgin used to express not only financial concepts but also more mundane matters. Often, the language of economics provides a neat bit of shorthand to express what would otherwise be complicated to explain...
...Sogavare was in the Big Apple, RAMSI officials were generating color and movement in Honiara. Working the grass roots, the mission set up community outreach stalls to promote its work. According to the Solomon Star newspaper, a young Canberra economist, Harry the Juggler, entertained the crowd while speaking in pidgin about economic reform; it was goofy but effective. RAMSI is popular with locals because it's brought better security, some services, and new infrastructure. RAMSI is a strange beast. It is not an occupying force, but remains in the Solomons at the invitation of the government. Yet the key role...