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Tingtinglongtingtingfala?

A lot of people have asked me what the word 'tingtinglongtingtingfala' means. It's a concept that Ken Campbell found whilst researching the Melanesian pidgin English spoken on various islands of the South Pacific. He can explain it better than I can. Here he is, summarizing a couple of the language's important characteristics:

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