Talk:Native American Pidgin English

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 11 September 2018 and 31 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jchillihitzia.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 12:19, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Proposed change of title
I propose to change the name of this article back to its original title of "American Indian Pidgin English." The title was changed to "Native American Pidgin English" in 2018 by an editor who described the reason for the change as clarity. The original title is in much more common usage and even has an acronym (AIPE) and a variant "Amerindian Pidgin English." Moreover, "American Indian Pidgin English" is a more comprehensible title. "Native American Pidgin English" might be interpreted as being about "Spanglish," "Franglish," or other pidgin languages spoken in North America.

The main source for this article as it is now written is a journal article by Douglas Leechman titled "American Indian Pidgin English." In an excess of political correctness, an editor has retitled Leechman's journal article as "Native American Pidgin English" in the references section. That certainly needs corrected.

A change of title will also require minor changes to reflect the restored title and probably a sentence or two added stating that the use of AIPE in movies and books is more of a colorful invention of Hollywood and pulp fiction than a reflection of reality. I haven't researched that yet, but will do so with the change of title. Smallchief (talk) 19:09, 12 June 2022 (UTC)