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the '''trade tongue''' or '''trade talk''' is the language of the wharves and docks and sailor’s taverns. It a coarse jumble of words and phrases from a dozen languages, accompanied by hand signs and gestures, most of them insulting.{{ref|affc|34|p. 508}} It is a guttural sailor’s pidgin{{ref|adwd|47|p. 628}}
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The '''trade tongue''' or '''trade talk''' is the language of the wharves and docks and sailor’s taverns. It a coarse jumble of words and phrases from a dozen languages, accompanied by hand signs and gestures, most of them insulting.{{ref|affc|34|p. 508}} It is a guttural sailor’s pidgin.{{ref|adwd|47|p. 628}}
  
 
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Revision as of 02:17, 7 March 2012

The trade tongue or trade talk is the language of the wharves and docks and sailor’s taverns. It a coarse jumble of words and phrases from a dozen languages, accompanied by hand signs and gestures, most of them insulting.[1] It is a guttural sailor’s pidgin.[2]

Notes and References

  1. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals, p. 508.
  2. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 47, Tyrion X, p. 628.