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Quote: pidgins use few synonyms; e.g., Tok Pisin uses one word for all pointy things and adjectives to identify specific forms

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pidgin and creole languages
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thesaurus and information retrieval

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Pidgins generally have very few synonyms. … A more striking example is Tok Pisin nil, … thorn, syringe, bodkin etc. Specific forms of nil …   Google-1   Google-2

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