Nigerians speak something called pidgin English, and I knew I didn't want to write in pidgin English because even the very educated people speak pidgin English.
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But Nigerians can also tune in to the Pidgin "people's station" Wazobia FM and, soon, BBC Pidgin.
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As children learned the pidgin as a native language, it became a creole—stabler and more grammatically elaborate than the pidgin.
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This has fueled debates among staff members over word choices: should, for example, an article use a word from Cameroonian pidgin, or from Nigerian pidgin, the most widely spoken variant.
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A lot of writers don't use the vernacular, pidgin, etc.
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On one plaque: Assamese, Pidgin, Cebuano, Javanese, Kebu and Nias.
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But as time went on, Pidgin evolved into a language of resistance and anti-colonialism, embraced by activists like Fela Kuti, a firebrand Nigerian musician, who sang in Pidgin as an act of defiance.
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Pidgin is probably the best platform for me to express that.
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A pidgin English born in plantation camps became Hawaii's own creole.
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It started as a pidgin, developed by traders in the 19th century.
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Similarly, Herlihy doesn't feel Pidgin is part of the local Hackney food scene.
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In a dozen pidgin voices, the future asked just one thing: Send help.
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But the effect is as vivid as the sassy, strong-willed narrator's pidgin.
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In a country with more than 500 languages Pidgin English is the lingua franca.
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With the Nigerian pidgin and the Yoruba, we wanted it to sound natural, smooth.
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While Pidgin is looked down upon by some, the word itself is not derogatory.
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They offer the company's app in languages common to drivers, such as Hausa and Pidgin.
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" Writing in the local pidgin vernacular, Ighalo asked fans to remember he was "someone's child.
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As he grew up, though, Mr. Danmole came to believe that pidgin should be respected.
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Legacy of language and the politics of that; in Nigeria, it was about pidgin English.
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Its root as a pidgin helps explain its success: simple vocabulary makes it easy to learn.
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Los usuarios de PC y Linux tendrán que instalar Pidgin y luego el plugin de OTR.
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Conversations between Onuzo's characters move fluidly between Igbo, Yoruba, pidgin and English, demonstrating her skilled ear.
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Whatever your mother tongue, you had to master some pidgin English to enter the land of computers.
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He's definitely used them as a prop to make a mustache and talk in pidgin English, though.
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When he used his laptop, he was told to contact the handler via Pidgin, another encrypted tool.
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An opera sung in West African Pidgin was staged two years ago in London, a world first.
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Many switch back and forth between standard English and Pidgin, peppering their speech with local words and colloquialisms.
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It questions the existence of the pidgin stage, a break in language transmission before rebuilding into the creole.
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Mac users can install Adium, PC (and Linux) users will have to install Pidgin and the OTR plugin.
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Although some critics discourage the use of pidgin, its supporters say it represents far more than a language.
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Mac users can install Adium , PC (and Linux) users will have to install Pidgin and the OTR plugin .
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Instead, it blends both language—pidgin English with Patois, Creole with Lingala, and recognisable, local slang—with sonic inflections.
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They conversed in pidgin English for several hours, as plate after plate of food was forced upon Mr. Adams.
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The team is also trying to pioneer a standardized written form of Pidgin, which is primarily a spoken language.
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The trio brainstorm their menus a month in advance and have tried to incorporate a supper club feel to Pidgin.
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Nigerian Pidgin first emerged almost 600 years ago as a means of communicating with European traders along Nigeria's southern shores.
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The integration, a UNHCR official said, was made easier by the pidgin English spoken on either side of the border.
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Borrowing from English, Portuguese, and Nigeria's 500-odd languages, Pidgin deftly weaves all of them together and mashes in playful imagery.
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John Holm, a linguist who helped bring the study of creole and pidgin languages into the scholarly mainstream, died on Dec.
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They called it "pirate English," a reference to its probable origin as a pidgin spoken on pirate and British Navy ships.
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Kobo360 will launch a new version of its app in Hausa and Pidgin this August, both local languages common to drivers.
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Allen is now head chef at Pidgin, a supperclub-turned-restaurant in Hackney that serves a weekly changing, four-course menu.
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Today, she says, it represents African pride, seen in the flourishing number of radio stations and television programs that use Pidgin.
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In Nigeria, the largest former British colony in West Africa, Pidgin thrived as more and more people interacted with the colonizers.
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I visit Pidgin the days following an extremely positive review in a national newspaper and the three of them are clearly buzzing.
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A pidgin is a reduced language used by groups with no language in common who need to communicate for trade or other purposes.
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Sometimes her Native American characters speak a cigar-store pidgin to one another, only to drop it further down on the same page.
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While a pidgin isn't "a language" in the same way that, like, French is, it can be a seed of a new language.
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The engineers spoke Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian, Arabic, German and Japanese, though they mostly spoke in their own efficient pidgin and in math.
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So it begs the question: Would the Academy have distinguished and not disqualified "Lionheart" if the film had mostly been in Pidgin English?
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At the time, Pidgin was regarded as a language for the local elite, who benefited from the slave trade of their own people.
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In French-speaking Africa graft is bouffer (to gobble down); in parts of west Africa the verb is "chop", from the pidgin for eat.
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Many of these postcards also include dialogue, written in the highly simplified, petit nègre pidgin language that further characterized subjects as unsophisticated or immature.
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Naturally, when those adults have children, the native language of many of those children will be the pidgin, which is where the real fun begins.
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Were I to speak my linguistic variation of Warri Pidgin from Warri, Delta State -- I can almost guarantee that non-speakers would not understand it.
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Half of Harry Mathews's novel "The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium" was written in unintelligible pidgin English, which may explain why 25 publishers rejected it.
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Herlihy is now co-owner of Pidgin, a small East London eatery with 28 covers, open for dinner and serving a weekly four-course set menu.
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Back in the aughts, I could chat with friends on AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN networks simultaneously via applications like Pidgin, Adium, and Trillian.
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So why, years after it was clear that libpurple was essentially a large slab of digital Swiss-cheese, have people continued to use Pidgin and Adium?
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Yinka Danmole, 26, decided to explore the pidgin language, the mix of Nigerian languages and English, that he heard around him while growing up in London.
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If it doesn't, what does this mean for not only Nigerian Pidgin but say, Sierra Leone's Krio or the variations of Patois spoken throughout the Caribbean?
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She commended the BBC's decision to offer the service, saying it helped remove the stigma attached to Pidgin, often derided as a corruption of standard English.
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The Arabic that they are usually taught is a pidgin designed for places like Kalandia, with phrases in the imperative: "Jib al-hawiya"(give me your ID).
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Still, John McWhorter of Columbia University, a defender of the traditional pidgin-to-creole hypothesis, argues that by and large, creole grammars really are the world's simplest.
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The album, comprised of pulsating drums, bells, whistles, chants, and Jovi switching between English, French, and Pidgin displays him as key African artist to look out for.
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Pidgin helps bring together, at least linguistically, large parts of a continent carved up by European colonizers who were later replaced, in many cases, by corrupt leaders.
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If you've ever set up PGP for your email or implemented an off-the-record chat in Pidgin, you know that it can be a clunky, burdensome process.
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She told the students not to explain too much, that they could throw in expressions in Igbo or Yoruba or pidgin and trust the reader to get it.
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We didn't speak the same language, so we communicated in a kind of pidgin English: don't worry guys I got phantom princess no no no, you NOOB, dafuq.
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And the talk embraces debates — both earthy and highfalutin — about language (and the role of pidgin as a defense against acculturation in Britain), music, homosexuality and interracial sex.
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It's absolutely amazing when you're working as hard as you can and I'm appreciative of [Pidgin founders] James and Sam for giving me the platform of being head chef.
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When I reached out to the Academy to ask whether Pidgin English would be considered a separate language, I didn't receive a direct response, only the standard issued statement.
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I read one editorial criticizing the clowns for condescending to their audiences with "pidgin Japanese, and tiresome tomfoolery," and another expressing discomfort with the gladiatorial bloodthirstiness of the lion show.
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"In Oman and these Gulf states, you have so many South Asian migrant laborers who speak an Arabic pidgin that has a lot of Hindi and Nepali words," Rivera said.
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Penned in heavy pidgin English and sung over a beat that Fela himself would vibe out to, Burna Boy expertly encapsulated the mantra of Nigerians: my life is my own.
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But Shiferaw makes that arch, insular language generated from the choir of Abstract Expressionism into a pidgin that also references hip hop, contemporary politics, and the precariousness of black life.
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Linguists in Nigeria have already set up a school called the Naija Languej Akademi, and hope to create the first reference guide for Pidgin English, including an alphabet and comprehensive dictionary.
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Among them is Mitchell Bates of Momofuku Shoto in Toronto, Makato Ono and Amanda Cheng of Vancouver's PiDGiN restaurant, and Irwin Adam Eydelnant, the creative-scientific force behind Future Food Studio.
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Throughout the club, the bright green walls are decorated with the quotation "Keep Hipco Burning," a nod to the country's take on American rap, which is performed in Liberian pidgin English.
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On Kearin's first day in the booth, he was given a pidgin version of Swahili and Cherokee, but that method continued to fail and the overall mood was one of dejection.
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The Pidgin phrase Naija no dey carry last, roughly meaning "Nigerians strive to finish first", has become an unofficial national motto (as well as the title of a book satirising the country).
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In the traditional account of this process, a creole most often arose from a pidgin: a simple, improvised argot drawing most of its words from the (usually European) languages of the masters.
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But most sports fans have watched hundreds of hours of ESPN programming, absorbing all the tics, clichés and motifs that Katz and Commenter have quilted together into a pitch-perfect satirical pidgin.
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It reads like sad notice for an imminent memorial service:Screenshot of Adium's sad noticeIt's so far unclear if and when other third-party messaging services, like Pidgin and Trillian, will notify their users.
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Your sound is unabashedly R&B and soulful, but it is also innovative in the way you infuse yourselves into it – with Nigerian pidgin and Yoruba, though I've read that you're both Igbo.
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Each artist tends to take on beats that blend elements of both West African and Caribbean music, as they bounce between English, Nigerian or Ghanaian pidgin, and languages native to their home countries.
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Actually, you don't have to: It would have been "The King and I." But in "Pacific Overtures" only the foreigners speak pidgin; the Japanese speak with great dignity about their dreams and despoilment.
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Along the way, he encounters an alter ego, the Harlem hustler Carlyle Bedlow, another of Mr. Kelley's recurring characters, for whom Mr. Kelley invented a language blending Bantu, pidgin English and Harlem slang.
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Nigerians subvert the Western understanding of the English language in the country's own standard English, as well as in the use of Nigerian Pidgin English, which is also widely spoken in the country.
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"We're reaching new audiences in a language that is popular," said Bilkisu Labaran, who oversees the service in West African Pidgin and who grew up speaking it, in spite of her parents' disapproval.
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The opera she composed and is performing in a Lagos theatre is an unusual, trance-like mix of classical and indigenous music - but what makes it unique is that she is singing in pidgin.
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For example, LibreOffice is a perfect substitute for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, GIMP is a more than adequate substitute for Adobe Photoshop for amateur photo editing, and Pidgin is a great instant messaging app.
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The initiative will see the BBC World Service expanded into 11 new languages — Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba — to take it to a total of 20350.
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Between them, they have published videos in 32 languages, including Arabic, Nigerian pidgin and Bengali, about the virus and how to get help, on their websites and Instagram and in schools and public libraries.
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Between them, they have published videos in 32 languages, including Arabic, Nigerian pidgin and Bengali, about the virus and how to get help, on their websites and Instagram and in schools and public libraries.
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West African Pidgin has its origins in the 15th century, when Portuguese traders were the first Europeans to reach the western shores of Africa, looking for copper, ivory and pepper, as well as slaves.
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The path is something like this: Adults who don't have a language in common with each other speak a pidgin, which is usually made up of some mixture of simple words, sounds, and body language.
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This reflects the pidgin legacy of immigrants who came from Asia to work Hawaii's sugar-cane plantations in the mid-19th century and had no time for the niceties of conjugation in their new language.
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For everyday communication, countries like this use a lingua franca, often derived from pidgin English, but prejudice against non-traditional languages, and the fear that they will undermine traditional ones, inhibits their use in the classroom.
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You can go into a restaurant and you could be doing the same menu for months or even years and it becomes a routine, whereas at Pidgin, you can keep cooking and creating whatever you want.
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Her 'Song Queen: A Pidgin Opera' - for which she cites Fela Kuti and Katie Bush as musical influences - debuted in London's Royal Opera House in 2015, where she added elements of Cockney slang to the libretto.
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And much larger problems that have members of the security community worried remain intact: that Adium, and another hugely popular chat client called Pidgin for Windows and Linux, are built on a vulnerability-prone code base.
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The additional African languages will be Afaan Oromo and Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia and other countries, Tigrinya, the main language of Eritrea, and Nigerian languages Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin, also spoken in other West African countries.
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As "Premier Gaou" by Ivorian group Magic System blared through a sea of Nokia phones, my fellow—mostly Nigerian—peers proudly spoke Yoruba and pidgin English, using expressions I'd only ever heard at Big Fat Nigerian Parties.
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People will carp that the movie glorifies an Asian stereotype, piquantly accented pidgin English, but Ms. Chau makes a vivid person of the part, using physical and verbal comedy and emotional understatement to go only for glory.
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" A run-of-the-mill Jack the Ripper tour guide, he entertains a collection of louche Belgian teenage tourists with pidgin French as he explains—in gory detail—the unidentified murder's M.O. "And who might ze killer be?
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It's the BBC's biggest expansion in 40 years, and means the broadcaster will join the ranks of local stations that already reach audiences of millions through speaking Pidgin — a mashup of English, Portuguese, and a bunch of local languages.
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In addition to West African Pidgin English, the service now delivers news in Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Tigrinya (languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and other parts of Africa); and in Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu (spoken in India), among others.
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As British English was introduced into schools in the region as a result of colonialism, Pidgin began to be viewed as a bastardization of the pure English that had been promoted with the help of institutions like the BBC.
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Some of the letters are written in a pidgin Chinese, a reminder that many held in the Kuomintang prison where the Sheraton Grand Taipei sits today had only limited knowledge of written Chinese, the result of 50 years of Japanese colonization.
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Both programs are based on libpurple, a notoriously buggy software library: it, and other libraries that Pidgin relies on, are "massive, written in C/C++, and are littered with memory corruption bugs," Lee wrote on his blog way back in 2013.
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And who knew that the lack of verb endings in Minnesota's remote Iron Range might be traceable to the polyglot immigrant mineworkers who, in a region lacking a base of native English speakers, had to cook up a mutually intelligible pidgin?
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For messaging, you can get hold of portable editions of Skype, Telegram and Pidgin, and for keeping on top of everything that's happening in the world all at once there's also a portable TweetDeck if you want to run it outside your browser.
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"Control Me," from their debut album Silk Canvas (could you imagine a more perfect R&B album title?!) shows how seamlessly they fold pidgin lyricism into a story of fancying someone who's… not worth with it: " this one dey craze be something".
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It's exemplified in the "aloha spirit," a concept roughly defined as an emphasis on mutual respect, getting along and taking care of one another, and in Hawaiian pidgin, the language people from many different backgrounds working on the plantation created to communicate.
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Although Mr. Holm could barely understand what he was hearing, it planted the seed for what would become his life's work: the study of creole and pidgin languages spoken by millions of people around the world, especially the English-derived creoles of the Caribbean.
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"When I started seeing this data, I saw that not only were they using this very pidgin English kind of thing, but (they were) effectively communicating with each other," Bali said, referring to the type of code-mixing that was happening in these conversations.
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I had never known about what is called "the Vexing Hawaiian W." Original, old-school Hawaiian is a member of the Austronesian language family, evolved from ancient Polynesian settlers (there is also apparently a Hawaiian pidgin that was brought by much later waves of immigration).
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There are many variants of pidgin spoken across West Africa, from Mauritania in the north to Nigeria and English-speaking parts of Cameroon in the south, and the BBC said it is using a mélange in an effort to create some sort of regional standard.
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Dr. Christine I. Ofulue, an associate professor of linguistics at the National Open University of Nigeria, who specializes in Pidgin, says it reflects Africa's relationship with outsiders over the centuries, evolving from the language of the slave trade to a form of resistance and anticolonialism.
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There have been some terror-group efforts to try to address that problem; for example, in February 2013 Islamist propaganda organization Global Islamic Media Front introduced a plugin to allow users to encrypt instant messages sent over platforms like Google Chat, Yahoo, MSN, Paltalk and Pidgin.
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" JON PARELES The Nigerian songwriter Burna Boy describes "Money Play" in a news release as a "word of advice/stern warning to never lose the hustle mentality"; its lyrics are a pidgin of English and Yoruba, with a refrain of "Show me where de money dey.
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After a while, a pale-skinned man with light-brown hair came out of the club and told them to move along, making shooing gestures with his hands, but without any hostility or particular rudeness, more as though he were conversing in an international pidgin dialect of sign language.
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She represents, says Smithsonian magazine, the interaction between Africa and the rest of the world: the currency and immense fortune — or loss of fortune — that can come from marine trade, the pidgin English name (Mami Wata, Mother Water) that comes from the language that arose to facilitate that trade.
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And while it's easy to fawn over fashion-forward art dolls such as Marina Bychkova's creations, which are de facto mixed-media sculptures, combining fabric, gold-plated metals, and even gemstones, or Joshua David McKenney's Pidgin Dolls that artfully embody a rococo, cabaret, kawaii and contemporary-fashion aesthetic, reborn dolls have a history of raising eyebrows.
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She adeptly captures, too, how a babel of evangelical prayers, muezzins' calls, Yoruba greetings, and pidgin conversations gives way to quiet moments: a lonely newspaperman eats dinner over his kitchen sink, a gentle romance blossoms over Bible study, and homemade rafts navigate the outskirts of the city, their plastic-bag sails hovering—"cloudlets, above the water."
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"Pidgin and creole studies had generally been dismissed, largely because creole languages in particular were thought to be spoken almost exclusively by poor people of color and were considered to be bastardized versions of the European languages that contributed their vocabularies," said Sarah Thomason, a linguist at the University of Michigan and an associate editor of The Journal of Historical Linguistics.
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Though his fourth studio album, African Giant, is distinctly and uniquely Nigerian—as seen through his use of Igbo, Pidgin, and Yoruba on "Gbona" and his work with Nigerian producer Kel P—he used the album as an opportunity to share the sounds of the Black diaspora, with appearances from talent like U.K.'s Jorja Smith, Jamaica's Damian Marley, and Los Angeles's YG. Though Burna Boy is already considered one of the greats in his home country, African Giant solidified his status and sound in the global music industry.
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