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Answer:
Pidgin English is an extremely short, limited number of words version that traders first used when dealing with non-English speakers in trade.
Check out this Nigerian pidgin English dictionary & translator: http://www.pidginguide.com.
Thus, same..same became the most frequently used expression to communicate the idea that one thing is the same as or equal to another.
" No money, no funny " was often used in foreign ports by prostitutes to communicate with drunken English sailors.
Repetition of a keyword, for emphasis is one characteristic of this idea of mixture of languages to cross a communications gap.
Check out this Nigerian pidgin English dictionary & translator: http://www.pidginguide.com.
Thus, same..same became the most frequently used expression to communicate the idea that one thing is the same as or equal to another.
" No money, no funny " was often used in foreign ports by prostitutes to communicate with drunken English sailors.
Repetition of a keyword, for emphasis is one characteristic of this idea of mixture of languages to cross a communications gap.
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