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No. XVII.
"PIDGIN ENGLISH, -
By N. B. DENNYS, Ph.D. Read ut a Meeting of the Straits Branch
K. A. S. held on the 9th Dec. 1878.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Visitors Column.
in connection with
Gardens.
Hongkong Bates of Postage.
(Revised March 1, 1880)
5288.--April 24, 1880.~
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence, April 23, 1890.
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Newspapers over four canoes in weight Alick, Mr Patterns, per two ounces.
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The sender of any Registered Article may neompany it with Eeturn Reipt on paying an extra fee of 8 ceola
The limit of weight for Books and Con St-mercial Papers to Fertign Post Ofiloes is 4 The Fatterns for wash offoes are limited to 8- eunocs, and must not exceed these dimensions: 8 inches by inches by Inche
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being gladly adopted while as regards which signifies never mind," chin-chin, Portuguese, though that spoken at for "how do you do," or good bye" Maceo is not exactly "Pidgin," it is to compliment," etc. This latter phrase:
We have instituted as an experiment much deteriorated in Chinese mouths; is not, as commonly supposed, Chinese.
A VISITORS COLUMN, which we trust moreover it is far easier for a Chinaman There is a phrase, Tsing Tsing, mean- Most visitors to the Far East have to learn than English, which is I im- ing if you please;" but it is never used will prove successful, and be found use heard of Pidgin English, though its use agine the most difcuts of all European in the scuse of the modern Chin-Chin, ful. To it will be relegated from time is principally conficed to Hongkong and tanganges for the Chinese to master. the Treaty" or open ports of China.
and the natives believe the latter to be to time such items of information, lists, Let us turn to the principal rulos pure English. One of the most curious tables and other intelligence as is con- are charged as double, treble, &c., as the Armstrong, Virs Alf answers to be sent to the Editor, China Mall, How and where it took its origin is an which govern "pidgin' Buglish," and if" pidgin" words is an excrescenco pro-sidered likely to provo valuable to percase may be, bat guoli papers or packeta or | Aulin, F. P. I
unsolved mystery. The oldest living possible, arrive at some conclusion as to nounced ga-lah. It has no signification, sons passing through the City, and papers may be set at Book Rate. Two Bacheher
Mans. F. we have opened Newspapers must not be folded together - foreign resident in China recollects it as its probable future. Although only and is simply added to a word or sentence
Printed Baird, Thos
Merrick, Jan. 1 the standard means of communication, dating back to the early days of the to round it off. A Chinamau will thas SELECT HOTEL AND BUSINESS one, nor must anything whatever be inserted Baird,
(STAR)
Mayer, Peter matter may, however, be enclosed, if the not merely between foreign mastara and East India Company, a suficient time say, "my wantsee go topside ga-lah" DIRECTORY, applications for enrolment except honde Supplementa
whole be paid at Book Bato. Prices Cur Ramaldo, adeo 1
**** { Bamterzdad; John 1......... Monday, Monats A their domestic servants, but between the has elapsed since its origin to fix its for I shall be going upstairs or up into which we are now ready to receive.
Moreno, Capt. once fabulously rich members of the formation within regular limits. Tako, town." The origin of this queer word
Newspapers or Brisson de Ols 1BE0 0. may be paid either
4 List of Public Buildings.
Booka
Brooks, Miss J. 1 Congsee or "Thirteen Hongs," who, for instance, to begin with, the pronoun. is found in Chinese colloquial. Each
Commercial Papers signify such papers Brown, Aus up to 1869, were alone permitted to This occurs only in the forms my, he, dialect has certain empty sounds," as Government House, North of Public
though Written by Fisad, do not bear Campbell, A. 11 transact business at Canton with "outside and you, which do duty both as personals the syllables are appropriately named, barbarians." But we fail to find any and possessives, "he" doing duty for which are affixed to the ende of sentences City Hall, Library (8,000 volumes) and the character of an actual or personal corre (Sools Geards)
Museum,-Free.
spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied Cheng Gratus authentic record as to when it first as "she" and it "We" and "they are to satisfy certain laws of rhythm, and
music, &o. The charge on them in the same Clegg, A,
(LI. D.))} sumed the dignity of a language or rendered by thisee man, that man, the the commonest of these in ke-lo or ho-la, Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque for booke, bat, whatever, the weight of
retroat and of great interest.
á packet containing any partially written Coniglie, Gr when proficiency in its phraseology was context implying when they are used in which has casily changed into ga-lah an object, of ambition to dapper young personal rather than a demonstrative I must not amit to mention a word The Clock Tower, Queen's Road Cen- paper, it will not be charged less than 5 Conlon, A. C.M.1
tral, in a line with Pedder's Whart Chinese clerks to enable them to fill the sense. The sentenco" I saw him" thus which is of constant use and without
Coulthard, 3. R. 1 Cunningham, J. 1 posts of interpreters and squeeze-col- becomos "my have ses he;" while "we which a Chiuaman quite breaks down in General Post Office, Hongkong Club,
German Club, Supreme Court, &
Davis Bolomum 1 regd. Quon Yer se lectors. It appears to have been in went out" would be rondered." Allo the simplest phrases-the word pieccy,
Donssly, B. M. 1. common use when Dr Morrison was thisee man go out. There is not here This represents what is termed the within a stone's throw.
Doughs, 0, achieving the herculean task of com-uny unalogy hotween the Chinese forma classifier" which in Chiness colloquial Lusitano Club and Library, Shelley
Drew John piling the first Anglo-Chinese dictionary, (resembling our own) and the rude precedes most substantives and to which Government Officer, the Secretariat, or
Dunlop & Co. near Public Gardens. some sixty or more years ago, and was substitutes adopted. All native dialects à close analogy is shown by such words probably current shortly after the East have I, be, we, you, and they, the pos- as arang, buah, biji &c. in Malay: As St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), above
Fajar Monat, B. 2 the Parade Ground. India Company's factory was first sessives (in Mandarin) being regularly Chinese however possesses some 75 of established at the City of Rams. I formed by the addition of fi, o: thus, these useful words, there is no need to Roman Catholic Cathedral, Wellington
Street, propose to occupy a few minutes of your wo, I; no ti, mine. The article and look beyond it for the derivation of their time in briefly describing this latest conjunction are entirely dispensed with pidgin equivalent. addition to the philological family, and, in "pidgin" as they are colloquially in passing attention as illustrating under used as a copulative only in exterae our own eyes a process which many cases. Verbs are in "pidgin English tongues now ranking as important must conjugated by the use of such words as have undergone in their carlier stages. hab, bym c-by &c. Thus I Enw him" There is a strong flavour of " Pidgin" becomes my hat looksee be"; "I shall get it" is my by me-by catchee he." The infinitives most words are made to end in ee: hee, wontece, malkee. The word belong or blong also does duty as an auxiliary, "I am a Chinaman" being "my blong Chinoe." The subjunctive Speculation, however, as I have said, also is formed by adding this word is woefully adrift in tracing its origin, belong; "you should go" being expres and even its name bas puzzled the brainos sed as "you b'long go." "If I go" is of clever etymologists. The most popular sposee my go," and beyond this there and probably the most correct derivation are no means of expressing the other is from the word "business" which on
tenses except by clumsy combinations. the lips of a Chinoman utterly ignorant If I had gone" is
sposee my have of English ders sound something like go." Blong, of course, stands for "it
pidgin." But I must confess that this belongs to your business to seems to me a rather far-fetched origin, though I cannot suggest anything bet ter: nor, so far as I am aware, can any one else.
Frail and fragile, wondrous fair, In woven tissue rich and rare;
When lifeless, yet to us it yields
A comfort culled from distant fields.
To one another closely tied
Like and unlike lie side by side; In quitting it, forget all strife And seek to mend a wasted life.
Not to be found without inspection, Fall many a une escapes detection: Sometimes 'tin large, and sometimes small, Often cannot be weighed at all. 'Tis seen above and underground; Yet passing strange, 'tis only sound!
----
1.
Columbus his banner of triumph unfurled; Yet I and another discovered a world.
2.
The grieving Giant raised his mournful cry, Whilst Hylas? Hylas 1 echoing shores reply;
From rook to rook, from mount to ocERZ-ERYO For sale response the laughter of the ware.
3.
"Tis said she was a virgin, that I cannot tell; Of this I am quite certain, her chief abode
was Heili
a lake,
to quake.
4.
DUNTO'S BABY.
WORD SQUARES.
Day Dext.
Revised Butes—
"ESTATE."
Paulner, Mr Foster, Hamil
tan G.
1
Frinder, A. W. 1. Faka, Jilat 1 Gilmont, Allan
1
rad.
Samuel, Josline 1 regd. Bran Wan Chung regd. Showial Obihangs 1
it may be, to viudicate its claims to Chinese, the word "together". being first heard by an unaccustomed stranger St. Joseph's (R.C.) Church, Garden Barope, most foreign possessions in Asia, Gin Goon Hong 1 regd.Boudt, As 1
in a
good deal of the Law Latin and French of the 11th and 12th centuries. Pidgin English therefore, uncouth as it is, aide us is recalling how linguistic changes were brought about in our own and Kindred languages.
As regards the formation of this queer dialect we find less dificulty in arriving at a conclusion.
79
Although pidgin English-seems, when to be as difficult as a veritable foreign language, its inverted construction and curious mispronunciation are very easily squired, and it therefore continues in extensive use. A colloquy committed to writing looks curious. Suppose, for instance, a foreigner to have called about some business or a native merchant:
Chinaman. Ai yah! chin-chin; how you do?
Foreigner. Chin-chin; any piecco nows have got f
Ch. No got news; thisee day b'long too muchee hot ?
For. Yes; too muchee hot; you pidgin Dumba one
Ch. Pidgin no b'long'good jus' now; you get any pidgin for my
For. My got littee smallo piecee; my wantsee buytes are tole (roll) sillik (silk.)
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The comparison of adjectives is effected by prefixing the words "more" and
too muchee," though the ordinary Ch. Ab! my got plenty, What comparative forta is often used of con- fashion coloh you wantsee? Allo fashion junction with the first-named: thus, good, have got. That Guvnosh mississee more better (pronounced bettah), too (Governor's wife) any time come thisee muches good; larges (also pronounced shop makec buytee (always deals at this Of the natural tendency of language lahgee), more larges, too muchee big.shop); etc., etc.
General Outfitter, Hosier, Tailor, Registration, to assimilate words from sources foreign The Chinese form is simple enough: It does not appear that pidgin Eng- &c.-T. N. DRISCOLL, 45. and 47, Newspapers, to its own origin we have numerons ex- I am botter than he is being 1, lish will die out. Numbers of Chinese, Queen's Road, by special appointment Books & Patterns, 10 amples in everyday life. Hindostance than he, good" or, in the superlative, indeed, thanks to emigurtion to the Uni to H.E. the Governor. They found a little moreal, at the bottom of words have become a part and parcel of that is the best," "that, than all, exted States, and the increased facilities Chronometers, Watches, Jewellery, the English spokon in Great Britain, ceeding good" Pidgin English uses available in the British Government Maps and Charts.-G. FALCONER & Co, Which caused the theologians for chronology while numerous Spanish expressions are our own landy "yes" and "no" in schools at Hongkong, now learn to taik Queen's Road Central,
current in the United States. Spanish place of the awkward it is," "it is English with Huency and correctness;
Travelling Requisites of all kinds, itself, again, his in Uruguay and not," of Chinese. These examples show and the number of foreigners who Books, &c.LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
American and English Stores, Books, Paraguay admitted a large admixture of that, as regards grammatical structure, acquire one or other of the Chinese Unarani, and the conservative Chinese "pidgin is in the main an imperfect dialects is increasing, the latest estimate, and specially selected Cigars.-MAC-10; have with equal facility adopted many adaptation of our own rules. But the counting all nationalities, being some- EwEN, FRICKEL & CO. words from Mapelu and Mongolian. general construction of sentences is what over five hundred. But there is Prize of $15 and $10 are offered to Indies In all these cases the intruding vocables essentially Chiness. Go to the post always a large fluctuating population of who succeed in " squaring the greatest number unve at first passed as "slang" until office and bring me a letter" would be foreign soldiers, sailors, and visitors, to of words by the Saturday preceding Midsummer custom has stamped them with the mint rendered just as it would be translated whom the acquisition of Chinese would mark of respectability. No visible effect in a native dialect; "You savee that involve a toil quite disproportioned to Particular attention is called to the following is produced upon the languages in ques-post-offices; go looksee have got one its use. To these a means of coins, Optical Instrumente, Mordan's word geared with ordinary English words tion by the presence of these strangers, chit b'long, my sposee have got you munication with the natives, based on a will receive three credite, those squared by Yet, dialects are to be found which, makee bling. The absence of a relative European vocabulary, is too serviceable toare and beginning under similar circumstances, form necessitates the cutting up of all to be dispensed with, and for them pidgin employing words not in anglicised proper names will reaiva two, and have so lost their original identity in long phrases into short sentences both English will hold its ground. So far those squared by using technical terms and the process as to have become veritable in Chinese and pidgin English. from dying out, it seems rather prob foreign words one credit. Theas credits will be
Such being, in Blurt, some of the able that in the course of years it will ecamukative, and successful answers wiphilological "bastards." Such are the pabilshed. No word will real: as a common lingua franca of the Mediterranean, and most important grammatical peculiarities take rank as a dialect beside the lingua English word unless it can be found in a modern the gitane or gypsey language of that of this dialect, lot as turn to its pro-franca of the Mediterrancan Son. Those English Dictionary: while at the same time it vast tribe, of Hindoo origin, which still nunciation. There are certain sounds who are curious to see how pidgin Eng. ranst be understood that xanny words to be found exists in every European country, its which the Chinaman. has from custom lish looks when printed may be referred io modern English Dictionarice are not common
members, like Ishmael of old, having an inherent difficulty in pronouncing to Mr Leland's little book of Pidgin words.
All answers should be sent to the Editor," their hand against every man, and Thus, he cannot sound the final ge of English Sing Song in the Raffles Libmry, China Mail, by noon on Saturday, and a new overy man's hand against them." The large except as a separate syllable, so Although some of its phrases are rather word will be given each week.
most recent of these bastard dialects, and he adds aue and makes it larger. A far fetched, it will give any one 8 necessarily less perfect in its individuality similar disability exists to pronounce tolerably fair idea of this singular than those abovementioned, is the Pidgin under certain circumstances, dependent dialect. The six answers sent in have been classi-English under notice, which at the pre- on the initial sound following them, fled as follows: Arethusa," "Janet," sent day is spoken by some hundreds of words ending in f, t, k, th, m; n; s; and "Jill," "Kris," "Parva Paella," first class; thousands of Chinese upon the seaboard v, which in like manner have ee or o
THE Thibetan authoriiles are reported, of their empire, and even threatens to added to them; t and k frequently take by the Darj eling paper, to have much "Catarina," second class.
Ree "want
becoming #wantace, bampered the trade between Thibst and Four Coolies, ... The following answer has been sent in by extend to the coasts of Japan.
There was also, singularly enough, a There is no apparent reason for this British territory this year. The traders Three Coollen, thres of the above competitors, the other two native Chinese dialect in process of latter peculiarity, unless it may be re- usually arrive in Darjeeling in November, Two Coulles, first-class answers differing only in the equal-formation, which was to the colloquial ferred to habit, arising from the constant bringing with them ponter, sheep, blankets, Return (direct or by Fok
aalt
and return to their own Country
Four Coolies, ly good word "Sistes" instead of "Staves" of the district in which it existed what recurrence of the te sound in all Chinese
about February. having purchased tobacco, Three Coolies, Tenser cannot be acospted as a common
"pidgin" is to pure English. One effect dialects. Custom gives the final es to
broadcloth,
in India. This of the Taiping rebellion, which caused many words ending in band, but they for some unexplained English word.
out of the Central China to Shanghai, was to cause speaker se pure finals. The letter is country until very late and when they To VICTORIA GA (TO LEVEL OF UMBRELLA
Single Trip. the formation of a fused dialect, con-absolutely unpronounceable either as were permitted to arose the passes, they sisting of words indifferently taken from initial or medial to the Southern China were prohibited from crossing the great
Four Coolios, kan ' those spoken at Shanghai, Canton, and man, and is avoided as a final when result has been that the trade has
has been that the trade has been Three Coolios, Nanking. No great growth of this possible in striking contradistinction almost stamped out, and that what few Two Coolies speech has been noticeable since the re-to the mandarin-speaking portion of the pontes and sheep arrived from Thibet were bellion was crushed; but it bade fair at empire. In Peking, almost every word actually struggled across the Thibet-Sikkim Four Coolion, been left Two Coolies, one time to contribute another to the is capable of taking a final r sound by frontier through passes which had been left. Three Conlige,
The
Fare embraces Ratora already numerous varieties spoken in adding to or eliding its primitive unguarded,
THE Townsville. Harald weites As a more than three hours different parts of the empire. It is not terminal; thus, jen becomes ferh; na,
For every hour or part of an hour abovo impossible that events will some day nark, etc. When pronounced in the group of collectors for the Irish Famine bring about this result, in which case south the r closely resembles the Hindoo Fund were making their rounds recandy to three hours, each Coolie will be entitled to will be delivered the same day, Decuracaoche Courante it will probably attract considerable at letter 7, which is between any and ad the western periton of this town, they an additional payment of 5 cents, the tention on the part of sinologues, as the The results of these rales--if they can dropped into a small store, where the Day Trip | Peak, 30.75 each Cool and generally within two hoɑre, unless the Echa dz Parlement. found an aboriginal station band laying in (12 hours) ] Clay,... tonal rules hitherto in force will be be so called are somewhat odd, the a stock of tobacco and other small necessa subjected to new and curious violations. more so as, in addition to disguising the res. Alter canvassing the white folk they Still, with all this granted, none of words, the native compilers of pidgit turned their attention to the native of the the dialects or languages I have men- vocabularies, often make up the quaintest foll, whom they asked to donate. Now, not people who tioned are precisely analogous to "pidgin combinations to express very simple our sable brethren are not
any svulenso of dare to die English," which, broadly speaking, words. As specimens of merely adul
and: it happens to be somebody's else's language more or less mutilated, put all, chits for child, facey for face or chor-
OF to in any way hoard up
hey hold together according to the idioma of an acter, Ink-lee for English, lumpat money for the pampe and vanities f other. Moreover there is, I fancy, no for Compradore, and so on. But one world. On the contrary they record of any dialect however uncouth becomes puzzled at such renderings as rather tightly, and seldom hold it any having sprung up in so mushroom-like -lit- for brother, ha-ss-man for length of time, regarding it as valuable yet complete a manner: A member of for husband or cho-man for servant merely for the sake of what they can get
for it. In this re
respect our Council who very kindly took the of compound words I may quote bull tras principles of political conomy, more Close on my Becond comes my third, where trouble to sad me some notes for this chile and core-ohio for boy and girl: exactly than civilised my more plenle, per London Nemám 175, AVice untamped, the postage being the Kitale
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«MARCH,"
YORICK
DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
I dare not hint much at my first or you would
güsse the rest; I've earnt from him to wipe my pen, when
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could a system of speech have got itself sionary, and lookee giden for ostente Irish, said he Bat established so soon as pidgin English tion or hypocrisy while anybody re
orest you got Pam plenty money i Should libel ahants to be the fault for which net have done, under the common puted to be cracked in, described as one or more, Bad Bit-get beel - you view of its origin? Internal evidence who hab ost water top mide ja Phantasy
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the Collector and a necessity not explained by the by natives at the China porte becomes a in dificulties found by English in speaking jargon, rescued only from contempt by I was then represented to, bim that they But it when plaintiff kan a" osne the trial no Chinese or by Chinese in speaking Eng the fired rules under which it is con beurt even damper. But even with this
abould starre
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much aboat nothing.
pidgin Portuguesa at Maceo where the of Chinese idiomas. Many words in com- porem, me a blankfellow. It same difficulties should have led to the mon ase are of Portuguess or Malay good deal of tlug and eloquence same results. I do not however quits origin, while a certain number of pure permade him that there are
in Ireland Bad Pedi
ralie: bring,
01, that has lived and lives on yet
ment to fame, r
And none that boast an Essz
daro neveras the name,
agres with him. I should be inclined Chinese,
to say that the fumerse tilpulty ex-chars perienced by average Extropesos in beneither coming fiuent in Chaps
Some
It took
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and apparently still unable to realize how there ar Chinese, nor anything sepld be a country when there wea no
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anniclent to account for any alternativa i cannot be ascertaine
a maskte, I money ikenek azd ke samm 600,
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