CJ in Pidgin Japanese?

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi, Dave,
   
  it's only a coincidence. In Japanese, "hayaku" means "quickly, rapidly, fast", being the adverbial form of the adjective "hayai"= "quick, rapid, swift".
   
  Francisc

Dave Robertson <ddr11 at UVIC.CA> wrote:
  I realize you can't connect everything with everything else.

And Ranald MacDonald probably has nothing to do with this.

But I was just reading Goodman's 1967 article on post-World War 2 
Hamamatsu English-Japanese Pidgin. 

He mentions a word "hayaku" used as "hurry up". 

I had to do a double-take.

You often find words from other contact languages in any given pidgin; 
Goodman gives examples of them in this paper. 

People using a pidgin presumably make use of their previous experience, if 
any, of contact situations. 

"Hayaku" couldn't have come from CJ, right?!

--Dave R

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