<div>Hi, Dave,</div> <div> </div> <div>it's only a coincidence. In Japanese, "hayaku" means "quickly, rapidly, fast", being the adverbial form of the adjective "hayai"= "quick, rapid, swift".</div> <div> </div> <div>Francisc<BR><BR><B><I>Dave Robertson <ddr11@UVIC.CA></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I realize you can't connect everything with everything else.<BR><BR>And Ranald MacDonald probably has nothing to do with this.<BR><BR>But I was just reading Goodman's 1967 article on post-World War 2 <BR>Hamamatsu English-Japanese Pidgin. <BR><BR>He mentions a word "hayaku" used as "hurry up". <BR><BR>I had to do a double-take.<BR><BR>You often find words from other contact languages in any given pidgin; <BR>Goodman gives examples of them in this paper. <BR><BR>People using a pidgin presumably make use of their previous experience, if <BR>any, of contact situations.
<BR><BR>"Hayaku" couldn't have come from CJ, right?!<BR><BR>--Dave R<BR><BR>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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