Today's slow drag is with "Pidgin English," from "Imperial Bedroom," released in 1982. The songwriting and is credited to Elvis Costello. . . . Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: @slowdragremedy Email: [email protected] Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Pidgin_English  YouTube Version w/ Lyrics: https://youtu.be/I-MphF3ARTU  "Pidgin English": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTnnDqcsdXw The Great Vowel Shift: https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_early_modern.html Norman Conquest of 1066: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9606163/In-everything-we-say-there-is-an-echo-of-1066.html Great vowel shift: https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_early_modern.html Examples of Grimm's Law in English: https://www.jpetrie.net/examples-of-grimms-law-in-english/ 44 English Phonemes: https://www.dyslexia-reading-well.com/44-phonemes-in-english.html Graphemes: http://www.speechlanguage-resources.com/support-files/soundstographemesguide2.pdf Lingua Franca to Pidgin to Creole: http://www.differencebetween.net/language/the-difference-between-pidgin-and-lingua-franca/ Grice's maxims: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/stylistics/topic12/14cp1.htm Pidgin word etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/pidgin Rolling Stone Review of "Imperial Bedroom": https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/imperial-bedroom-117931/ Slanging Match meaning: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slanging-match "Many Hands Make Light Work," John Heyward's idiom: John Heywood Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved October 26, 2019, from BrainyQuote.com Web site: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_heywood_158880 "A change is as good as a rest" definition: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/a-change-is-as-good-as-a-rest "Love Letters" "throwaway kiss" mention: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hn0oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT293&lpg=PT293&dq=%22throwaway+kiss%22&source=bl&ots=72fti9sMam&sig=ACfU3U1IRbQB0dVq0bXNqfBWHJ5C1NnAEQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZmuLB_brlAhWEQxUIHRK8BFwQ6AEwC3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22throwaway%20kiss%22&f=false Hunting down who coined "writing about music is like dancing about architecture": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music/ Squeeze, ""Hourglass": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3PWVDzlfQ "Post Truth" Society OED word of the year, 2016: https://www.hau.gr/?i=culture.en.past_event.5196 Virginia Woolf quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/426030-it-is-a-thousand-pities-never-to-say-what-one Rod Stewart Axes Old Songs: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10122753/sir-rod-stewart-me-too-movement/   "Pidgin English" Lyrics There's a young girl with her old man who's too sick to mention She'll be turning twenty seven as she draws her widow's pension But he couldn't catch a common cold he couldn't get arrested Too terrified to answer back Too tired to have resisted Many hands make light work Shorthand makes life easy When he's out on night work Make sure no one sees me It all ends up in a slanging match with body talk and bruises A change is better than a rest Silly beggars can't be choosers Chorus: One of a thousand pities you can't categorize There are ten commandments of love When will you realise There are ten commandments of love I believe, I trust, I promise, I wish love's just a throwaway kiss In this Pidgin English If you're so wise, use your lips and your eyes Take it to the bridge she sighs You go cheep cheep cheep between bulleyes and bluster Stiff as your poker face Keener than mustard From your own back yard to the land of exotica From the truth society to neurotic erotica Silence is golden Money talks diamonds and ermine There's a word in Spanish, Italian and German In sign language, morse code, semaphore and gibberish Have you forgotten how to say it In your Pidgin English? (chorus) PS I love you

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