Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 14, 2000, 19:28 |
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In a message dated 2000/06/14 01:52:34 PM, John Cowan wrote:
>("Pidgin", BTW, is Chinese Pidgin English for "business".)
Yep Yep. Even today I hear Cantonese-speakers & Hakka-speakers here in
Chinatown saying the English word "business" as _pidjin_ or _pidsin_.
Last week, I actually heard a Cantonese grocery store owner
melodramatically yellin' at an English-speakin' Hispanic fish wholesaler: "Yu
wan' me pidsin, lah? no? Plice too much, too much, AiYaH!!!, man! ... Fis'
not too fukkin' fles', man! Go in tlash in two day!"
The discovery that the word _pidgin_ is still used left me grinning like
a maniac for an hour or so.
zHANg