Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 08, 2005 at 11:00:23 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Talkee English bimeby posted by Mike F. on March 08, 2005 at 08:02:01:
One must be "PC", as in the equally curious coinage of "Mumbai" for a city founded by the Portuguese and named "Bom Baia"!
Seriously, my dictionary of PNG Pidgin spells it thus. I believe that a true pidgin uses the grammar of one language with the vocabulary of at least one other language, so China Coast Pidgin used Chinese grammar and English and Portuguese words.