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Swearing like sailors: What the profanities of lascars can teach today's divided world


Swearing like sailors: What the profanities of lascars can teach today’s divided world
The creole language they created shows how finding a way to share experiences can help transcend seemingly insurmountable chasms.
Feb 07, 2021 · 11:30 am
Lascar crew on the P&O liner Viceroy of India.
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National Maritime Museum from Greenwich, United Kingdom, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons
How do people from diverse lands share experiences and emotions as they work together in the tight confines of a ship vessel? Sometimes, they create new languages to bridge the divisions. That’s what the lascars did – with a salty, colourful vocabulary.
A group of sailors and militiamen who served on European ships from the 16th century to the 20th century, lascars were drawn from several colonised lands – Chinese, East Africans, Arabs, Malays, Bengalis, Goans, Tamils and Arakanese. The word by which they were known was derived from the Per ....

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