Talk:Charles Godfrey Leland

Pidgin
He also took an interent in Pacific Pidgin languages

from http://www.hku.hk/linguist/program/contact4.html

"Pidgin" verses as caricature
 * Ping-Wing see gentleum walo- go
 * He scleamee, 'Hai yah -- fan-kwei lo!'
 * All-same you savvy in Chinese,
 * 'One foleign devil lookee see!'

(Leland, Pidgin-English Sing-Song, London,1872) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.239.212.89 (talk • contribs)

Military history projects
The fact that this article has been tagged as part of the Military History WikiProject and other US military listings, seems to indicate that a bot is automatically including articles on anyone who participated in the US Civil war. Obviously this too-broad sweep will gather a lot of articles biographies of people like Leland, who although he served in the Union army, cannot really said to have contributed much more to history than the two and a half million other soldiers he fought alongside. WikiProject_Military_history says: ''Note that military service does not in and of itself place an individual within the scope of the project—particularly in the case of service in modern militaries. To qualify them, an individual's military service must have been somehow noteworthy or have contributed—directly or indirectly—to their notability.'' By that standard, this article does not qualify for inclusion, and ought to be removed from the project.Proptology (talk) 18:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * It is my understanding that Leland's work as an engineer for the Union Army, finding, negotiating, and drilling for oil, helped keep the Union railroads from running short of resources during the War, which strikes me as notable though perhaps not dramatic. — Sizzle Flambé (☎/✍) 04:08, 12 November 2009 (UTC)


 * My impression is that his comic writings set in the US Civil War - i.e. Breitmann Ballads – were considered notable at the time of their publication and for some time after. For comparison, Spike Milligan, who wrote comic autobiography about WWII, is also included (not presently challenged) in Military History WikiProject.  Someone who knows more about the period would need to assess whether Lelandʼs level of significance in this respect warrants inclusion.  (Iʼve only read them!)  Anihl (talk) 00:06, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Humor
The article doesn't give any examples of his humor. I found many sites, but I didn't feel like trying to add anything to the article. Here's one source. http://www.bartleby.com/227/0204.html 99.9.112.31 (talk) 20:45, 1 November 2010 (UTC)NotWillDecker

Four poems written by Leland appear in the Library of America collection _American poetry: the nineteenth century_ vol. 2. They are all in mock German. Here's a sample:

I stoompled out ov a dafern, Berauscht mit a gallon of wein, Und I rooshed along de strassen, Like a deripple Eberschwein.

All very low humor. Purslane (talk) 22:28, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

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