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This language, which I have lived to see almost entirely fade from use, was even then thought to be most probably the tongue of the future in the colony, and there was the more need to teach it correctly, since, by the barbarous commingling of Rhenish peasant dialects, Irish and Scotch perversions of English, Indian phrases, the lingo of the slaves, and the curious expressions of the Yankees from the East, the most villanous jargon ever heard was commonly spoken in our Valley.
"And this one," indicating myself with her gold eye-glass, "is, I assure you, quite an oddity." The oddity, you may be certain, ground his teeth. She had a way of standing in our midst, nodding around, and addressing us in what she imagined to be French: "Bienne, hommes! ça va bienne?" I took the freedom to reply in the same lingo: "Bienne, femme! ça va couci-couci tout d'même, la bourgeoise!"
"Yes, Uncle, by seven o'clock," answered Betty, who was at the wheel. "Six bells six bells!" he exclaimed. "You must talk sea lingo on a boat, Bet." "All right, Uncle six bells." "Where's your charts?" he asked, suddenly. "Charts?" "Yes, how are you sailing? Have you marked the course since last night and posted it? Where are your charts your maps?
The packed small room, the caged-monkey lingo, the wailful child, and the past and apprehended debate upon the burning of flesh, composed an intolerable torture. He said to Edwards: 'Go to the men; settle it with them. We have to follow that man Wythan; no peace otherwise. Tell the men the body of the dog must be secured for analysis. Mad or not, it's the same.
"That's no real name. Smacks of the West Coast of Africa. Who gave it you?" "Mother Charcoal." "What's your country? What language do you talk?" "English." "Monstrous little of that, my boy. What's your native lingo, I mean? Greek, Turkish, Italian, Coptic what?" "Spanish," the boy confessed, in a low voice.
Jus' the same kind o' early cold as to-night, an' John's teeth was chatterin' like peas in a box he was some loco with skeer, too, you bet. "'Which way? says Buck, an' John spouts a lot o' dope-joint lingo an' takes us up a side alley, where there's a whole bunch o' Chinos waitin' fer us, an' they begun a kowtowin' an' goin' on like we was the whole cheese.
Your titles are simply for local purposes, and to give you authority among the Portuguese." "We don't know enough of the lingo to give the words of command, sir," William Bull said. "That will not matter. The Portuguese dragoons will teach them as much drill as it is necessary for them to know.
There was still more of the talk, and Ben Bowline doubled his fists and said angrily: "It's as bad to be told you're a liar in Spanish as it is in English or French or Dutch or any other lingo, an' I'm not goin' to take it from nobody. Just wait till I get hold "
The Kanaka sailor couldn't talk much English, but it seems that his granddad, or some of his ancestors, must have belonged to the same breed of cats as these islanders, for he could manage to understand a little of their lingo. "'Picture! says he, crazy-like with joy. 'Picture, cappy; picture!
It is true that they did talk in fisherman's lingo about this, asked each other if they had a nibble or a bite, or boasted that they had hauled one in, or complained that it was a poor day for fishing. But this was all chaff, born of youthful spirits and the air of the place.
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