pidgin

• “no got pidgin," and _pidgin English_ simply means a workable knowledge of colloquial English as picked up by tradesmen, servants and coolies, in contradistinction to English as taught in the schools.”

  Life and sport in China Second Edition

• “My Mr. told me that the key to pidgin is to pick out the English words and try to make sense of them.”

  My First Love

• “We gave them worm tablets and would ask them politely, in pidgin English, to collect their fecal matter in buckets for us.”

  Helminthic Therapy « Isegoria

• “The story of a Korean uprising told in pidgin poetry.”

  Carl Brandon Society API Heritage Month Book List

• “A pidgin is what you get when you throw people together who have no common language and gramatically its kind of a mess.”

  How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web

• “It is difficult to defend an American president who speaks in pidgin-English.”

  Think Progress » Bush’s Fluctuating Degree of Ability

• “Anglo used to enroll them in informal classes to learn Fanagolo, a century-old, 200-word pidgin language that was created decades ago so that mining bosses could order illiterate miners to perform basic tasks.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Mile Down, Saving Platinum Miners' Lives

• “A pidgin is a simplified language used to help two groups with distinct languages communicate with each other.”

  Pidgins and Creoles - Anil Dash

• “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.”

  Pidgins and Creoles - Anil Dash

• “A pidgin is a simplified language that develops when groups of adult speakers without a common language come into prolonged contact.”

  languagehat.com: LINGUISTICS ON TV.

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