US EditionIs p’ú ‘to shoot’ from Polynesian pidgin?
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Is p’ú ‘to shoot’ from Polynesian pidgin?
I’ve just read linguist Derek Bickerton’s fun memoir, “Bastard Tongues”, which inadvertently gave me an idea about Chinook Jargon. Inadvertently, in that he doesn’t mention Chinuk Wawa at all. Different word, different Hawai’ian pidgin (image source: Amazon) But Bickerton quotes a Hawai’ian from 1791 as saying in Pidgin Polynesian to an American, in regard to a treacherous chief (page 215): bad many many gun kill men ‘He’s bad, he ha…
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