The story of a Korean uprising told in pidgin poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Brandon Society API Heritage Month Book List] Reference
It is difficult to defend an American president who speaks in pidgin-English. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush’s Fluctuating Degree of Ability] Reference
A pidgin is what you get when you throw people together who have no common language and gramatically its kind of a mess. From Wordnik.com. [How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web] Reference
French, etc does not speak a pidgin, as broken languages have no structural norms. From Wordnik.com. [BBC - Ouch] Reference
I was struggling with an IM program called pidgin, but I realized there is also GAIM. From Wordnik.com. [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference
A pidgin is a simplified language used to help two groups with distinct languages communicate with each other. From Wordnik.com. [Pidgins and Creoles - Anil Dash] Reference
A pidgin is a mashup of two languages A and B used when a speaker of A and a speaker of B want/need to communicate. From Wordnik.com. [Pidgins and Creoles - Anil Dash] Reference
Tweak the Tweet is not the first hashtag pidgin language I've seen - and previous efforts struggled to gain adoption and awareness. From Wordnik.com. [FactoryCity] Reference
A pidgin is a simplified language that develops when groups of adult speakers without a common language come into prolonged contact. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: LINGUISTICS ON TV.] Reference
@ LG: If I attempt to write this in pidgin, it will not be funny. From Wordnik.com. [JUST IN ONE WORD] Reference
For the benefit of the natives an address was given in amusing "pidgin" English (see the "Times," November 16). From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] Reference
New Britain, on the 13th, a British Proclamation was read, with a special one in "pidgin" English for the natives. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] Reference
Tweak the Tweet is not the first hashtag pidgin language I’ve seen — and previous efforts struggled to gain adoption and awareness. From Wordnik.com. [Designing hashtags for emergency response | FactoryCity] Reference
In reality they use bastardized or "pidgin" English. From Wordnik.com. [EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA] Reference
It is included in the Ubuntu repositories, just search for 'pidgin'. From Wordnik.com. [Ubuntu Forums] Reference
Often she answers me in "pidgin" English, a kind of baby-talk that is used when addressing servants. From Wordnik.com. [My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard] Reference
Just a quick one, I note there's a typo on the main page and I don't seem to be able to edit it: "pidgin". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Logging in with other clients such as pidgin works OK, so ejabberd is okay, and the registration etc. work. From Wordnik.com. [ejabberd Community Site - Comments] Reference
He was deluded by the idea that if he talked a kind of pidgin-English and shouted loud enough she must understand. From Wordnik.com. [The Huntress] Reference
In this "pidgin" English he can express himself as in Chinese by merely changing the positions of the words: — "He wantchee my.". From Wordnik.com. [China and the Chinese] Reference
"The colonel," as the consul was generally called, talked "pidgin" English, which is practically a dialect in itself, to the boat-women. From Wordnik.com. [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference
He stopped suddenly and switched to pidgin English. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Four Finger Wu had asked in execrable pidgin English. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
In a month he had a tan, and his pidgin had come back. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
Tote in pidgin and keeler -- make out of cedar and cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Languages: English spoken by 1\%-2\%, pidgin English widespread. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
English spoken by 1-2\%, pidgin English widespread, Motu spoken in. From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Languages: Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca. From Wordnik.com. [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Kate had learned to talk on the island; she spoke pidgin from deep down. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
Between the old seaman's pidgin and his Haklo they could converse quite well. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
I was waited on mostly by a lad named Chung, one of the professors of "pidgin.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
Only through pidgin could the traders converse with their servants, and they with them. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Languages: English (official), French (official), pidgin (known as Bislama or Bichelama). From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
"May I help you?" asked a voice in lightly accented English, with no trace of the pidgin dialect. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
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