The joys of pigeon English, a lot of Chinese and Indian immigrants would come to NZ, rent some farmers paddock, and turn it into a market garden, [green vegetable grower], they would work 28 to 30 hours a day and average 8 days a week. This left little time to learn to speak English. The only words that were totally understandable were the not suitable for mixed company ones.
The Levin [1 hour south by car] growers used one of the senior members as an interpreter, he was good, in normal conversation every 10th word started with F. When he was telling you what he wanted it rose to every 5 th word. When it was time to discuss the price, the only word you could understand was F
Then "How much for one?"," How much for two?", "How much for cash?" with the hand pulled from the pocket, filled with banknotes.
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HA!!!!!!! That had to be an interesting day!!!!
He would be up with different growers about every two weeks,
Lots of fun.