Tarzan-speak
"Tarzan-speak" in a Sentence (3 examples)
Although we were speaking full sentences, the language coming off our hands went like this: "We go market. What you want buy? This pretty, you like?" I call it Tarzan Speak.
"Long time ago good. Now no good." That deathless piece of Injun- or Tarzan-speak, from the story "Fathers and Sons", should be added to "grace under pressure" as the sum of the Hemingway philosophy.
But he revealed that new music is almost upon us, sharing in an endearing grammatically incorrect fashion: “Album soon come.” Perhaps he’s channelling Tarzan speak.
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