Meanings
- uncountableTarzanese
But he revealed that new music is almost upon us, sharing in an endearing grammatically incorrect fashion: “Album soon come.” Perhaps he’s channelling Tarzan speak.
2018 February 13, Daily Star (Online), London2 more examples
Although we were speaking full sentences, the language coming off our hands went like this: "We go market. What you want buy? This pretty, you like?" I call it Tarzan Speak.
1992, R. Orin Cornett and Mary Elsie Daisey, The Cued Speech Resource Book for Parents of Deaf Children, Raleigh, NC: National Cued Speech Association, page 644"Long time ago good. Now no good." That deathless piece of Injun- or Tarzan-speak, from the story "Fathers and Sons", should be added to "grace under pressure" as the sum of the Hemingway philosophy.
1999 August 22, The Independent, London, page 10Synonyms: Tarzan English
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nounTarzanese
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