Talk:Yokohama Pidgin Japanese

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Joke?[edit]

The impression I get is that this article is documenting a joke publication (the "Revised and Enlarged Edition of Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect") in the straight-faced manner usually reserved for April 1st.

The "Yokohama Pidgin Japanese" looks to my admittedly untutored eye to be mostly standard Japanese, but with the Japanese sounds approximated by English words in order to give the appearance of a pidgin, e.g. "oh my" instead of "omae", "moose me" instead of "musume", etcetera.

It's a good joke, and skilfully executed, and explicitly describing it as a joke might spoil that joke; however, without such an explicit description it has enormous power to mislead. Specifically, readers who just skim the article and don't follow the link, and even some who do follow the link and read it in full but without any knowledge of Japanese, might come to the erroneous conclusion that there really was a "Yokohama Pidgin Japanese" which differed from standard Japanese and which is now extinct.

I don't know what Wikipedia policy is on such things.

Martin Gradwell (talk) 15:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to be an actual thing: "'Two Sides of the Same Coin': Yokohama Pidgin Japanese and Japanese Pidgin English" by Andrei A. AVRAM in Acta Linguistica Asiatica. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 04:55, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]