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Examples
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If "I Ching" was supposed to be a pun and a play on the idea that me-no-speakee-Engrish Chinese people don't use particles, then apparently nobody told Denny O'Neil how to pronounce the title of the book properly.
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When we arrived at Nice, and an impertinent policeman got me into a corner, so to speak, and tried to put me through the catechism, I simply said, "No speakee Frenchee -- Mistress Americano," and at that he shook his head and wrote it down in a note-book about as large as a grocer's ledger.
The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906
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The bear was walking softly on, and offered to meddle with nobody till Friday, coming pretty near, calls to him, as if the bear could understand him, "Hark ye, hark ye," says Friday, "me speakee wit you."
Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1895
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The bear was walking softly on, and offered to meddle with nobody till Friday, coming pretty near, calls to him, as if the bear could understand him, "Hark ye, hark ye," says Friday, "me speakee wit you."
Robinson Crusoe 1895
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"Too mosh me no speakee Anglish!" he promptly replied, shrugging his shoulders until they touched the great gold rings that adorned the lobes of his ears, and spreading out his hands, palms upward, toward me.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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He says 'muchee' and 'speakee,' but he becomes at once a civilised being, and in his first conversation puzzles Crusoe terribly by that awkward theological question, why God did not kill the devil -- for characteristically enough Crusoe's first lesson includes a little instruction upon the enemy of mankind.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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Whether the applause, by the way, was intended for the speaker or the _speakee_, I do not know; but being quite indifferent, I clapped my hands with the rest.
Hudson Bay 1859
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"You speakee true, sahib; the rogue, if he no worse."
The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850
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"Yes, Sahib, you speakee true," said the shikarree, who had now reached the spot; "he wild beast -- he very wild beast -- big tiger!"
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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"He no speakee English," said Popo, who had just scrambled into the canoe.
Twice Lost William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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