Interestingly, East European Oskar and Chinese Ping, who appear in the following book (The River at Green Knowe), speak English impeccably from the get-go, having learned it as a foreign language. Perhaps Jacob is meant to be speaking some kind of pidgin?
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Date: 2018-03-13 07:36 am (UTC)