Word of the Day - Pidgin

[debodun]

Pidgin (noun) - a simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages.

In many vintage movies and TV shows, Native Americans and Asians were depicted speaking pidgin English.

 

[ohioboy]

Shorthand writing is a type of Pidgin, as I sure can't speak that language!

 

[debodun]

I wonder if birds could be taught pidgin speech?

 

[Bellbird]

Pidgin English, Its a long time since I heard those words.

 

[terry123]

Pidgin English, Its a long time since I heard those words.

Me too!

 

[Mizmo]

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Best Pidgin Friends...​

 

[Pepper]

There once was an actor name of Walter Pidgin. Oops, make that Walter Pidgeon.

 

[kburra]

Ecofascism
Ecofascism is a theoretical political model in which a totalitarian government would require individuals to sacrifice their own interests to the "organic whole of nature".

 

[Ruthanne]

Over the years I guess I have talked to many people who spoke pidgin English. My mother used to call it "broken English".

 

[debodun]

Ummm...that right, Kemo Sabe. Me gettum sheriff.

 

[Autumn72]

It's unrelated college educated lingo that I speak as a penpal mentioned in her letter to me from Switzerland.
She said she could not understand my slang. English is all I speak I guess my penmanship throws them off