2007-05-26
■ [外国人の日本語など]チェンバレンの「ピジン日本語」 
Pidjin-Japanese. In China, where the native language is very difficult to pick up, and the natives themselves have a ecided talent fur learning foreign tongues, the speech of the most numerous body of foreigners---the English--has come to be the medium of intercourse. It i s not pure English, but English in that modified form known as Pidjin-English."
In Japan, where the conditions are reversed, we have " Pidjin-Japanese" as the patois in which new-comers soon learn to make known their wants to coolies and tea-house girls, and which serves even as the vehicle for grave commercial transactions at the open ports. A Yokohama resident of old days, Mr. Hoffman Atkinson?, made up a most entertaining little book on this subject, entitling it Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect; but its humour cannot be fully appreciated except by those to whom real Japanese is familiar.
In the dialect under consideration, a " lawyer " is called consul-bobbery-shto, a "dentist" is ha-daikusan (literally " tooth carpenter "), a lighthouse " is fune-haiken-sarampan-nai-rosoku, a " marine insurance surveyor " is sarampan-fune-haiken-danna-san, and so on. We wish it were possible for us to give the Pidjn-English? version of the Lord's prayer, beginning Otottsan nikai arimas ; bat reverence forbids.
カイザー,シュテファン(2005)
