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Chinese Pidgin English
Etymology
Calque of Cantonese 點樣 / 点样 (dim2 joeng6-2).
Adverb
how-fashion
- how
- why
Conjunction
how-fashion
- how
1862, 唐景星 [Tong King-sing], 英語集全 [Chinese English Instructor], volume IV, marginalia, page 33; republished as “Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor”, in Michelle Li, Stephen Matthews, Geoff P. Smith, editors, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, volume 10, number 1, 2005, pages 79-167:
- 米沙比厚花臣都
*mai5 shaa1 bi2 hau5 faa1 sheon4 du1
My savvy how fashion do.
I will know how to act.
1862, 唐景星 [Tong King-sing], 英語集全 [Chinese English Instructor], volume VI, marginalia, page 3; republished as “Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor”, in Michelle Li, Stephen Matthews, Geoff P. Smith, editors, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, volume 10, number 1, 2005, pages 79-167:
- 口花臣㕭𠲟揸治梳乜治
*hau5 faa1 sheon4 ju1 gen6 zaa1 zhi6 sho1 mat1 zhi6
How fashion you can chargee so muchee?
How can you charge such a price?
References
- Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 106: “How-fashion: what for? why? what is the meaning? “How fashion you stop out so late?””