Tarzan-speak en · NOUN
Etymology
From Tarzan + -speak.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Tarzanese
But he revealed that new music is almost upon us, sharing in an endearing grammatically incorrect fashion: “Album soon come.” Perhaps he’s channelling Tarzan speak.
2018 February 13, Daily Star (Online), London:Although we were speaking full sentences, the language coming off our hands went like this: "We go market. What you want buy? This pretty, you like?" I call it Tarzan Speak.
1992, R. Orin Cornett and Mary Elsie Daisey, The Cued Speech Resource Book for Parents of Deaf Children, Raleigh, NC: National Cued Speech Association, page 644:"Long time ago good. Now no good." That deathless piece of Injun- or Tarzan-speak, from the story "Fathers and Sons", should be added to "grace under pressure" as the sum of the Hemingway philosophy.
1999 August 22, The Independent, London, page 10: