Vanuatu's variant of this pidgin is called Bislama . The development of Melanesian Pidgin accelerated in the late 1800's when Melanesians were recruited as labourers for Queensland's sugarcane plantations. Melanesian Pidgin developed out of necessity, and returning labourers brought their new language back to Vanuatu. There, Bislama's development continued when men began working on European-owned plantations in the early 1900's, when they were recruited to work on the large American bases during WW II, and when the urban centres of Port Vila and Luganville began growing in the 1960's. Bislama is a mixture of English, French, and Melanesian words set to a Melanesian syntax.
Words tend to represent general concepts, rather than specific things.
This is not true, as Bislama is a language in its own right . In my case, on my first day of work with the Malekula Local Government Council, my boss told me and the entire staff that I was allowed three days of speaking English, after which I was to be communicated with in Bislama only. When I left Malekula after two years, I was just gaining an idiomatic facility with the language. Our children played with the neighbourhood kids for a few months seemingly without a common language until one day, we noticed them chattering away in Bislama. By the time we left, they spoke English only with us, and they continued to bicker in Bislama while we toured Australia until they noticed that they were the only people on the continent speaking it.