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We also listen to the mixing of languages in the sailors’ patois and to the commonality of multilingualism across Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
WHY IT’S TIME TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON HISTORY’S ‘DARK AGES’DAVID PERRYDECEMBER 22, 2021TIMEPopulating the novel is the usual cast of characters, foremost among them the cop shop’s inimitable secretary, Agatino Catarella, who blends obsequiousness, prudery and verbal ineptitude into a patois all his own.
MONTALBANO SAYS FAREWELL IN THE LOVABLY QUIRKY NOVEL ‘RICCARDINO’DENNIS DRABELLEOCTOBER 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTPerformers like Renato soon found that if they spoke to the predominantly Spanish-speaking audience in their language as opposed to English or Patois, the crowd would go crazy.
REGGAETON IS SO MUCH MORE THAN PARTY MUSIC. THIS PODCAST BREAKS DOWN ITS POLITICAL ROOTSANDREW R. CHOWOCTOBER 6, 2021TIMERapping in his hometown patois, Roiall brings that authenticity to his videos “Nobody” and “Soda,” which was shot at Half Way Tree in Jamaica.
GRAMMY WINNERS OF TOMORROWJOSHUA EFERIGHEMARCH 14, 2021OZYThe patois of Saint-Rémy has been developed and expanded into a beautiful literary language.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERJasmin had already shown the Parisians that real poetry of a high order could be written in a patois.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERHe sympathizes with every attempt, wherever made, the world over, to raise up a patois into a language.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERSo that the Provençal language, in spite of everything, keeps a certain patois vulgarity.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERSome of the hay-makers called to me, but in such barbarous patois, that I could make nothing of them.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYHere in Martinique we find the market a perfect babel of voices, all speaking a curious French patois.
GARDENS OF THE CARIBBEES, V. 1/2IDA MAY HILL STARRWORDS RELATED TO PATOIS
- abracadabra
- argot
- balderdash
- banality
- bombast
- bunk
- buzzwords
- cant
- cliché
- colloquialism
- commonplace term
- doublespeak
- drivel
- fustian
- gibberish
- hackneyed term
- idiom
- insipidity
- lexicon
- lingo
- mumbo jumbo
- neologism
- newspeak
- nonsense
- overused term
- palaver
- parlance
- patois
- patter
- rigmarole
- shoptalk
- slang
- slanguage
- speech
- stale language
- street talk
- tongue
- trite language
- twaddle
- usage
- vernacular
- vocabulary
- accent
- argot
- articulation
- brogue
- cant
- communication
- conversation
- dialect
- diction
- dictionary
- discourse
- doublespeak
- expression
- gibberish
- idiom
- interchange
- jargon
- lexicon
- lingua franca
- palaver
- parlance
- patois
- phraseology
- prose
- signal
- slang
- sound
- speech
- style
- talk
- terminology
- tongue
- utterance
- verbalization
- vernacular
- vocabulary
- vocalization
- voice
- word
- wording
- accent
- argot
- articulation
- brogue
- cant
- communication
- conversation
- dialect
- diction
- dictionary
- discourse
- doublespeak
- expression
- gibberish
- idiom
- interchange
- jargon
- lexicon
- lingua franca
- palaver
- parlance
- patois
- phraseology
- prose
- signal
- slang
- sound
- speech
- style
- talk
- terminology
- tongue
- utterance
- verbalization
- vernacular
- vocabulary
- vocalization
- voice
- word
- wording
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