Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1957Vol. XXVIII, No. 4

Picturesque Pidgin

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

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Towards A More

The suggestion by “Old Timer” in October “PIM”' Tropicalities (p. 82) of a prize s for picturesque Pidgin phrases\ could start something.

I have always liked that terse “Something nothing ”, conveying such unequivocal: contempt; or “Throw ’imaway leg belong you”, to ensure speed in a parting messenger.

And then there is that subtle determination of sex in a horse: stallion, rendered a& “horse ’e man”; mare as “horse ’e mary”; and gelding as “horse

’e missionary”,

Gordon

Thomas.

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