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From: David Smallberg <das@ucla-cs.ARPA> <das>
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Subject: Re: taim yo usim pidgin
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Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 14:58:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 14:58:27 1984
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Well, for starters there's the recent (6 mo to 1 yr ago) Scientific
American article on Hawaiian Pidgin (I like its use of "cockroach" as
a verb meaning "steal").  I recall from the article that "kaukau" means
"food", and noticed in the "taim yu usim pidgin" ad that "kaikai"
must mean "eat".

One thing I remember about that Pidgin is that transitive verbs end in "im"
(derived from "him" as a direct object).  "Dispela" (from "this fellow") is
the determiner "this", and "gutpela" (from "good fellow") means "good".  The
word "pushim" (from "push", of course) doesn't mean "push"; its English
meaning is a different four-letter word (hint: starts with an "f").

-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das