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  • n  an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages

  • Contributors to the LOLCat Bible Translation Project, which launched in 2007, are almost through translating the entire Good Book into kitty pidgin.
  • But then Wantok began carrying the adventures of the Phantom translated into pidgin.
  • One pidgin phrase is known as far as Italy.
News & Articles

  • Does Disney's Tonto reinforce stereotypes?
    The Lone Ranger has long been a fictional hero, taming the Wild West with his trusty Indian guide, Tonto. The faithful companion helps him fight bad guys, and does so speaking in pidgin English.
    July 2, 2013 - The Clarion-Ledger
Quotes

  • Josh Lewsey in Independent
    I had an argument with him,says Lewsey. "I said I'm absolutely fine and then he pointed out in his best Pidgin English that I had in fact fallen off the last traverse we'd crossed and perhaps wasn't as fine as I thought I was. I had...
  • Steve Maharey in Sydney Morning Herald
    The statement is understandable,Maharey said, "despite pidgin being spelt pigeon, as in a bird from the dove family, rather than pidgin, as in simplified language used between persons of a different nationality. But we will give him...

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