单词 | bamboo english |
释义 | > as lemmasbamboo English bamboo English n. depreciative a term applied to any of various English-based pidgins originating in Southeast Asia. ΚΠ 1924 Washington Post 30 Dec. 4/3 The clearing-out of American school teachers..is rapidly reducing the tongue taught in the provinces to ‘bamboo English’. 1968 W. J. Samarin in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. 671 The ease with which Korean Bamboo English developed leads one to imagine the inevitability of pidgins in the world. 1988 Amer. Speech 63 144 Todd uses examples from Norman's articles to describe Bamboo English. 2006 C. R. Yano Crowning Nice Girl 253 These mostly English-language songs, typically written and originally performed by GIs stationed in Japan, employed..sprinklings of what was dubbed ‘Bamboo English’. < as lemmas |
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