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.
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Tarzan-speak
Synonyms for "tarzan-speak" (2 found)
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"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.
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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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