pseudo English

Noun

pseudo-English (uncountable)

1. Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.
   • Then and now Back in 1981 when I wrote the first article on this subject (The Incorporated Linguist 20, 104, 1981), Naples was in the throes of a boom in the use of English (or rather pseudo-English) in local facias and tradenames.1985, The Incorporated Linguist: The Journal of the Institute of Linguists
2. A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.
   • There is a strong feeling that pseudo-English is more "user friendly" than symbolic notation.1983, Laurie A. Russell, David M. Weintraub, APL 83, Conference proceedings, Washington, D.C., April 10-13, 1983
3. Nonsense text or speech that resembles English in some way.
   • However, even then, pseudo-English is a useful intermediate output since it can be used to update the dictionaries, to refine the partitioning methods, and to derive rules for syntactic analysis.1959, Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference - Volume 16, page 152
4. (derogatory) English-language jargon or dialect that does not reflect the way most people speak.
   • But he could not write or speak English in a manner tolerable to any Englishman; and although he knew nearly all the words in the language, it was dictionary knowledge, and so different from an Englishman's apprehension of the same words that it was only a sort of pseudo-English that he knew, and...1879, Michael Montgomery Fisher quoting someone else, The Three Pronunciations of Latin, page 79

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