Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 14, 2000, 1:26 |
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> No, I just think someone has been passing bad Tok Pisin in the streets
> of Copenhagen. (Pickaninny is a _US_ 'slave' word.)
Pickaninny came from an African creole, derived from Portuguese
_piquinho_, or something like that. Variants of that exist in nearly
every European-lexified creole.
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