Like slack key all you gotta do is just listen, and listen to da rhythm to get it right. I can just see Reid pulling out da books and going what the hell? Then again mebbe not. You gotta go ida "What? " or "So?" or "So what?" or "What bada u?" Or da triple emphatic "So what? Bada U? Hah?" You kenna go Hah? afta I already wen Hah? My Hah get more mana, came first. Like the very early use of "guyz" instead of "dem", similar to the Hawaiian "ma". Right now, Honolulu Pidgin, with a Japanese flavor, seems to be driving the change everywhere. That was nice.īTW, like any language, Pidgin is changing over time (and has before) and is different from place to place and between ethnic groups. They caught my joke and joked back, in Pidgin. I refrain from speaking it because my accent is lousy, but once, at a festival on little Moku Ola (how could they ever have renamed that important place Coconut Island?), I said a few joking paragraphs, with the correct accent, to Sarah, and was overheard by a nearby family. I won't name all the authors and titles, because we have choke books (see, even that single word is a clever construction and reuse of a word). Sarah and I have many books in Pidgin, some very seriously literary. Besides, it is usually filled with great humor and vitality.
Wonderful! Pidgin is great - it is expressive, has many metaphors and a syntax much like Hawaiian. Hard fo stop da bolder from rolling down da Pali, wen all you geet iz rubbah slippa. I know you know I know dat you know I stay trying to do wats right, but hard yeah. What you mean I gotta talk mo betta? Diz changes eryting! You know I neva wen speech terapy three years for noting. N I tink dat everybody still stay listening brah, Jez ho`omanawanui brah.įurdamor, if we waz to lift da top of your hed en chai look eensai your brain, would have all deez lil kanaks runnin aroun in dea saying "do diz do dat, what you lookin at? I tink da odda guys tink I no can rite, I no like dem tink I'm icing em out. Da wey you talk iz da wey you tink bradda. Hah? I almost wen pas dis one bai, but for political reasons I wen take onenada look. I enjoy reading posts in Pidgin, because it gives "voice" to the posting - and I hear voices in my head all the time anyway! I don't speak Pidgin - but I understand most of it from context. By posting you have opened up your `ohana to us. I find it refreshing to see the hawaiian connections being made here the strong sense of `ohana. Not to the exclusion of hawaiians, but just the way it was.
This was pretty much haole land for a long time. Through the years of being on TaroPatch, it's nice to see more Hawaiians posting. No mattahs! as long as the intent is pono. Some will feel excluded by the post, some cliquish, and some uncomfortable. Is.If you're good people,I'd like to get acquainted & share E KOMO MAI!!! I came here because of Ki ho'alu,Iĭon't care what your IQ level,Ethnic make-up,musical ability,economic status or whatever We all have a lot of common interests.Seems like a dirty shame to be separated by either implied,inferred or invisible walls. Speakers also speak "Textbook English" Hey I'm finally bilingual Intention is never to exclude anyone,it's mostly to inject a little Hawaii into theĬonversation.There is no obligation to respond in like manner,because we "Pidgin" Well let me formally invite everyone to take part in these "Broken English" posts.Our "Pidgin" English & tend to shy away from such conversations because you feel inadequate Select group of people? Do you not feel comfortable with your grasp or understanding of Topic author: sirduke58 Subject: Is Posting In "Broken English" a turn off?ĭoes our posting in "Broken English" make you feel like you're being excluded from theĬonversation? Does it feel like we are part of a "click" who only correspond amongst a Is Posting In "Broken English" a turn off?
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