"The African and Asian slaves of course has to speak the master's tongue. Naturally they conversed in illiterate, simplified broken pidgin Dutch. Thus the language spoken in the kitchen among the servants and slaves: Kombuis-Hollands, Kitchen Dutch as opposed to Hoog Hollands: High Dutch."
This must be related to the term "keukenlatijn" in "regular Dutch". "Kitchen Latin" is bad Latin just as "potjeslatijn" which refers to the crude Latin used by pharmacists. http://www.koxkollum.nl/potjeslatijn/potje003.htm
Potjeslatijn
Namibian Black German (German: Küchendeutsch) is a pidgin language spoken in various parts of Namibia. It is a non-standardized variety. Namibian Black German is based on standard German.
Namibian Black German is in danger of extinction. It was spoken mostly by the Africans who served their colonial masters when Namibia was known as German South-West Africa. (Küchendeutsch means Kitchen-German).
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