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Updated: May 2, 2025
He took off his battered helmet, inclined his body from the middle of his back, and said, "Enchanted, sair!" Then he gave me his oily hand, which wanted rubbing down with a bit of deck swabbing. "You fit for go shore one time?" he asked in the pidjin English of the Coast, still keeping his helmet politely raised. "Oui, certainement, toute suite," I replied in the pidjin French of England.
In journeying across the empire we found sufficient analogy in the various provincial dialects to enable us to acquire a smattering of one from another as we proceeded, but we were now unable to see any similarity whatever between “You makee walkee look see,” and “You go and see,” or between “That belong number one pidjin,” and “That is a first-class business.” This jargon has become a distinct dialect on the Chinese coast.
To an accompaniment of barbarous noises the actors stepped out one after another and began to spin around with immense swiftness and vigor and violence, chanting the while, and soon the whole troupe would be spinning and chanting and raising the dust. They were performing an ancient and celebrated historical play, and a Chinaman explained it to me in pidjin English as it went along.
To an accompaniment of barbarous noises the actors stepped out one after another and began to spin around with immense swiftness and vigor and violence, chanting the while, and soon the whole troupe would be spinning and chanting and raising the dust. They were performing an ancient and celebrated historical play, and a Chinaman explained it to me in pidjin English as it went along.
Although our boatmen had a smattering of pidjin, or business, English, we were unable to get a very clear idea of Chinese astronomy.
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