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...Korean language is difficult, and the G.I. did not have the time and energy to pick up more than a few words. So he learned about the Koreans from what he saw, and through the Pidgin English the Koreans themselves put together. In the back of a truck, choking on the fine, powdery Korean dust, wondering how the Koreans could live in it, he suddenly saw a Korean coughing too, and he realized that the armies had stirred up the dust and the Koreans suffered from it "same-same...
John Quincy Adam's real name in Eskimo means "the women." He was given his Boston surname by white traders. John, the chief of the Eskimo crew, delights in telling in his pidgin English of his world travels. The white men who first recruited him took him to Siberia to trap furs. The Russians, however, took his furs from him. Carter described this incident as "just another example of Russian-Alaskan strained relations." He said there have always been ill feelings across the Bering Strait...
Both Spain and Columbus come off rather entertainingly in The Velvet Doublet, but the English language takes a beating. Novelist Street has chosen to write in a pretentiously archaic and gaudy style, which sometimes reads like a burlesque of Ernest Hemingway in his pidgin-Spanish phase...
...continental Americans, rather than placed in separate units. The results in enforced understanding and companionship are often good and warming. But the language difficulty is serious. The result at the front is that squad and platoon leaders must communicate with their men in an awkward mishmash of straight American, pidgin talk and sign language, with occasional help from the few interpreters at hand. All this forwards the brotherhood of man. But it can be tough on night patrol in the cold wastelands between the lines, where each man's life may depend on perfect understanding and precision...
...Anything Can Happen, is also supposed to be an "A" film. It isn't. Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It relies heavily on pidgin English for its humor and Horatio Alger for its plot, and the net result shows that a cliche, even in dialect, is still a cliche...