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This is a personal appreciation of the evolution of colloquialisms in the Portuguese Creole that is spoken in Cape Verde & Guinea-Bissau. A new word, or an old word that is given new life by common speech, can make for interesting linguistic discoveries, with an evolving & changing set of meanings. The article gives examples of how the meaning of Portuguese Creole colloquialisms shifts within different contexts. The work of Primo Levi & Carlos No is cited in order to further contextualize the reverberations in meaning for certain colloquialism, meanings of which the Portuguese Creole speakers may themselves be unaware. Parallels are also drawn between these linguistic phenomena in Portuguese Creole & similar linguistic phenomena in Spanish & English. R. Young