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IS PIDGIN ENGLISH?

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Last of three talks by PROFESSOR RANDOLPH QUIRK
First is to be heard a passage from Gud Nius Mark i Raitim, the Gospel according to St. Mark in the Neo-Melanesian language. This rich, consistent, systematised form of ' pidgin English,' spoken in New Guinea, is virtually a foreign language-differing as much from the English we speak as modern Portuguese, say, differs from the Latin of Cicero.

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