TALK
TALK.
1. A way of talking or speaking, usually embracing what one talks about: TEACHER TALK the usage of teachers in the classroom; chalk and talk an informal term for teaching methods that do not use complex technology; small talk trivial news and gossip. The term is informal in such forms as country talk and local talk, and pejorative in such forms as nigger talk.
2. A VARIETY or DIALECT, especially if not taken too seriously or low in prestige: Bungo Talk ‘country bumpkin’ speech in Jamaica; Creole Talk of Trinidad and Tobago (title of a book, 1980). This sense has long been associated with English-based PIDGINS and CREOLES; the word has been adopted and adapted, usually in the written form tok, in various names, such as KAMTOK in Cameroon and TOK PISIN in Papua New Guinea. It may also occur in such pidgin and creole usages as tumantok (‘two-man talk’) a tête-à-tête.
3. Sound that approximates to SPEECH, whether produced by an animal, an infant, or a machine: BABY TALK. Compare -ESE, LINGO, -SPEAK. See AKU, DOUBLE TALK, FOREIGNER TALK, RASTA TALK, TECHNOBABBLE.
1. A way of talking or speaking, usually embracing what one talks about: TEACHER TALK the usage of teachers in the classroom; chalk and talk an informal term for teaching methods that do not use complex technology; small talk trivial news and gossip. The term is informal in such forms as country talk and local talk, and pejorative in such forms as nigger talk.
2. A VARIETY or DIALECT, especially if not taken too seriously or low in prestige: Bungo Talk ‘country bumpkin’ speech in Jamaica; Creole Talk of Trinidad and Tobago (title of a book, 1980). This sense has long been associated with English-based PIDGINS and CREOLES; the word has been adopted and adapted, usually in the written form tok, in various names, such as KAMTOK in Cameroon and TOK PISIN in Papua New Guinea. It may also occur in such pidgin and creole usages as tumantok (‘two-man talk’) a tête-à-tête.
3. Sound that approximates to SPEECH, whether produced by an animal, an infant, or a machine: BABY TALK. Compare -ESE, LINGO, -SPEAK. See AKU, DOUBLE TALK, FOREIGNER TALK, RASTA TALK, TECHNOBABBLE.
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