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Recent Examples of pidgin
The language is a high-modernist juxtaposition of street urchin pidgin, Yiddish English and finely observed free indirect discourse — New York’s voice is plural.
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New York Times, 30 June 2022
ClayRocksU excels at something similar, fusing Igbo language and local pidgin folk elements with punk rock.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
With the song — a feel-good tune sung in Nigerian pidgin and blending punk rock, Afrobeats, and folk — Okorocha and Co. are also attempting to challenge the negative stereotypes attached to rock music in this part of the world.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
But Amazon expects this person to be well connected with the Nigerian film industry, already boasting relationships with top creators, fluency in Nigerian pidgin and one or more indigenous languages.
—Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
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New York Times, 30 June 2022
ClayRocksU excels at something similar, fusing Igbo language and local pidgin folk elements with punk rock.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
With the song — a feel-good tune sung in Nigerian pidgin and blending punk rock, Afrobeats, and folk — Okorocha and Co. are also attempting to challenge the negative stereotypes attached to rock music in this part of the world.
—Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
But Amazon expects this person to be well connected with the Nigerian film industry, already boasting relationships with top creators, fluency in Nigerian pidgin and one or more indigenous languages.
—Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pidgin
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The versatile, always-all-in Mars is a worthy lodestar for Rosé and Rosie, an album that whirls through 21st-century pop idioms with aplomb even as its heroine ruminates on heartache and anxiety.Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps that’s why his debut album as Chanel Beads is filled with self-help idioms and reflections on internal conflicts.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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Jones and Brody learned Hungarian and worked with a dialect coach for the movie.Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Turns out, dat good ole dialect is a put-on: James speaks like a professor.Rachel Flynn, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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Kam understood the regional colloquialism assignment!Cindi Andrews and Katie Wissman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2024
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The fine line between being relatable to your audience and appearing unprofessional by going against consumer preferences to formality by using slang, colloquialisms, or informalities can potentially damage brand growth with both new and existing consumers.Gary Drenik, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
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While still young, he was drawn to the body and Black vernaculars of motion, ultimately creating a language that incorporated ballet, tap, and contemporary dance.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
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Comparatively, while New Hampshire is quiet, with a small core group of practitioners working in regional vernaculars, Maine and Vermont boast a disproportionate number of architects—Elliott Architects and Birdseye among them—engaged in custom residential equal to that of the nation’s highest.Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Think of the faster speed of sending over data, or higher bandwidth in chips parlance, as a highway.Wayne Chang, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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There isn’t a proper app store or any app icons to manage That will hopefully force developers to make apps (or, in Alexa's parlance, skills) that feel native to this device.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
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Instead, viewers are immersed in Millie’s Kingston, with dialogue spoken almost entirely in Jamaican patois, where opportunities are limited, gang violence persists and whiteness is still put on a pedestal.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
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Casting themselves as high priests of pop culture, the duo encapsulated gay-millennial preoccupations and patois.Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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Jone [Southern slang meaning make fun, joke around].Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
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Previous generations of slang terms usually had one-to-one translations to, for lack of a better word, normal English.Evan Porter, Parents, 3 Dec. 2024
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So my focus is on regionalism and international tax developments.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness.Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Pidgin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pidgin. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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