pidgin
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Trying to free herself, she began to write in Hawaiian pidgin, a language she both grew up surrounded by and was told by others — including her mother — to avoid out in the world.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2023
The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023
“It is time that this suffering ends for us all. This is what brought me here,” he said in pidgin English.
From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2021
Bowen and Tui Asau all have ties to Hawaii, lending authenticity to the book’s polyglot melting-pot gradations of dialect, anchored by Hilo-born actress Kim’s voicing of the matriarch Malia’s warm, flowing pidgin.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2020
All this time Malcolm had heard Lyra and her little dæmon chattering away in their pidgin English.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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