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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of creolize.

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  • Irrationally and irrelevantly, with an obstinacy that we might too easily mistake for servility, they seek to reproduce this discourse in a way which recalls the simplifications, corruptions and logical re-workings that linguists encounter in "creolized" languages. '

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • I was born in Trinidad, and so were my nieces and nephews; we have all become 'creolized,' part of things on the island.

    Monique Roffey: Green Bike Recycled Monique Roffey 2011

  • I was born in Trinidad, and so were my nieces and nephews; we have all become 'creolized,' part of things on the island.

    Monique Roffey: Green Bike Recycled Monique Roffey 2011

  • When English regained its post as the written language of England, there was no longer such a strong adherence to its old ways, and so the new written language was more like the new (spoken) Middle English, the semi-creolized and weakly simplified version of Old English.

    Book Review: “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue” « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • Okay, for the record: Since its inception, Drown was neither a novel nor a story collection, but something a little more hybrid, a little more creolized.

    Junot Diaz discusses his first two books, Drown and the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2010

  • What I always liked about Capoeira was how it was presented to me from the first contact with it -- the operative word is 'play' in Portuguese, of course, and it is connected with both a creolized, syncretized African religon, then, naturally certain Brasilian musics, and, as well, a kinetic historic memory of life on slave plantations.

    ianmcdonald: Spingate ianmcdonald 2010

  • Their creolized culture finds its expression in a Malay dialect and in distinct forms of dance, music, silat

    The Dish: Gado-Gado 2008

  • The end result of that process is foreshadowed in Italian Cooking for the American Kitchen—a wonderful, creolized 1953 recipe collection by a former U.S. Army hospital cook, Garibaldi M.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Here, too, very old concepts are coming to the fore again: language mixture, for one, as reinterpreted in the light of such seemingly marginal phenomena as the pidgin and creolized languages which captivated the original and unorthodox mind of O. Jespersen (1860-1943).

    LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

  • Yes, Laurent, deep roots indeed, whether you look at it from the side of the profound repertoire of Vodou drumming or from the side of the creolized heritage of the contredanse that runs through the Domingan (Haitian) diaspora.

    The New Yorker 2009

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