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...If one had watched several episodes or series, one was fully conversant with "jive".

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I like the direction this thread has taken (apologies to rpeck, the 'OP'!).

A scene from the film, 'Airplane': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZlWw8Di10

My grandparents' generation referred to such manner of speaking as 'pidgin English'.

What makes the scene particularly 'funny' to Americans who grew up in the 1950s and 60s is that Barbara Billingsley (the jive talkin' mama) played a very 'whitebread suburban' mom on the popular, family oriented, TV series 'Leave It To Beaver': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUw2fIa0dSI

Brits have Cockney, surely every language group has sub groups of slang speech.

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