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A few similar ones, but not these examples, appear in Dorgan Rushton
(1983) <i>Brush Up Your Pidgin. </i>Willow Books, London.<br><br>
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At 03:06 PM 3/12/2004, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I was puzzled by these
definitions for a long time. They are often quoted, but they're so absurd
that no one has ever used them in actual speech. I've even seen
them quoted in Newsweek (US) not too many years ago! Recently, I
was looking through a copy of<i> Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave
Me!</i> by Edmund Carpenter. Carpenter seems to ascribe these
absurdisms to<i> English, Pidgin and French Dictionary of Sports and
Phrase Book</i> by Andréas Bálint, a book that I have not seen but that
was roundly criticized by Mühlhäusler.<br><br>
--Tom Slone</blockquote></body>
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