I don’t think anyone would be shocked to hear that linguists generally study languages, but there is a corner of the discipline that studies something slightly different: pidgins.
These are not actual languages; they have small vocabularies and very little of what we could call grammar.
One example is Chinese Pidgin English, which was spoken on the coast of China from the 18th century to the mid-20th century.
It is alarming to see someone who is asking to be elected president of the United States — someone who already serves as president of the United States — communicate in such an ineffective manner.
One way to understand what is happening is to think of it as unraveling.
Persons:
Donald Trump, George Stephanopoulos, Biden
Organizations:
United
Locations:
China, Papiamentu, Cape Verdean, Surinam, United States