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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 18 July 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Luc Hellinckx</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology"</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Beste Ron,<br><br>You wrote:<br>><br>> This is very interesting. But how did maskee (= maski = ma-si-ki) get<br>
> to the Chinese coast?<br>><br>> The core of the language is English on Chinese (originally Cantonese)<br>> substrate, and it contains some Portuguese-derived words ( e.g.,<br>> pequeno 'small (one)' > pikanini 'small', 'child'), which is
<br>> understandable considering historical contacts (such as in Macau,<br>> e.g., late 18th century: Carey grandi hola, pickenini hola? < Port.<br>> Quer uma grande puta ou uma pequena puta? "Do you want a big or little
<br>> whore?"). Later on, other dialects were developed from this, such as<br>> in multinationally occupied Shanghai (with Wu admixture) and in<br>> German-occupied Tianjin (Tientsin) and Shandong (Shantung). I am
<br>> wondering if maskee was imported by English speakers from another<br>> colony which had had direct or indirect contacts with Dutch, perhaps<br>> Sri Lanka (Ceylon) or Malaya, or somewhere in the Caribbean area.
<br>><br>Think it may have something to do with the Dutch ruling Taiwan in the<br>17th century. There seems to have been quite a lot of trade going on<br>with Fujian province (import of laborers). Read more here:<br><br>
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Dutch_rule" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Dutch_rule</a><br><br>Kind greetings,<br></div>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br>Luc Hellinckx<br><br>----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Etymology<br><br>Good point, Luc!<br><br>And the Portuguese had been there too, of course, hence the older name Formosa (from <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>
</span><i style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ilha Formosa</i><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> 'Beautiful Island'<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>).<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br>
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