German edit

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Etymology edit

Kartoffel +‎ Deutsch.

Proper noun edit

Kartoffeldeutsch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Kartoffeldeutsch or Kartoffeldeutschs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Kartoffeldeutsche, alternative genitive Kartoffeldeutschen, no plural)

  1. (Papua New Guinea) Unserdeutsch
    • 2016 November 1, Peter Solfrank, quoting Siegwalt Lindenfelser, Germanist, Universität Augsburg, “Augsburger erforschen Südsee-Deutsch”, in BR24[1]:
      Und die Missionare wollten das eigentlich auch nicht, da ist auch ein Satz überliefert, da sagt eine Schwester, don‘t speak this potatoe–german, sprich nicht dieses Kartoffeldeutsch.
      And the missionaries actually didn't want that either, and there is a sentence handed down where a sister says, don‘t speak this potatoe–german, don't speak this Potatoe–German.
    • 2021 January 18, Siegwalt Lindenfelser, Kreolsprache Unserdeutsch: Genese und Geschichte einer kolonialen Kontaktvarietät (Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL))‎[2], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 88:
      „Don't speak that Kartoffeldeutsch!“, rügte eine Schwester die Kinder nach Information des Sprechers WR regelmäßig (Interview mit JE und EHA, Caboolture, 09.03.2015). Die Kinder sollten „richtiges“ Deutsch sprechen:
      You know Unsredoitsh is falshe Doitsh and it shouldn't be spoken because we were brought up on the right side.
      "Don't speak that Kartoffeldeutsch!", a sister regularly reprimanded the children according to information from the spokesman WR (interview with JE and EHA, Caboolture, 9th March 2015). The children should speak "correct" German:
      You know Unsredoitsh is false Doitsh and it shouldn't be spoken because we were brought up on the right side.

Declension edit