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Hawaii

salimbag

(173 posts)

2. try watch da video

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 12:22 PM

Mar 2013

wen you stay in da kine, you talk da kine. just like any creole language, it's all about location. here in hawaii, pidgin is a comfort language, and immediately identifies you as one of "us". we can adjust to standard english when needed, but a joke in pidgin is totol krak up. aloha nui loa

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Fo Teach Pidgin o Not Fo Teach Pidgin — Das Da Question [View all] ellisonz Mar 2013 OP

Well, as long as they stay on the Islands DollarBillHines Mar 2013 #1

I can't imagine how horrid that must have been. ellisonz Mar 2013 #5

try watch da video salimbag Mar 2013 #2

Welcome to DU! ellisonz Mar 2013 #4

mahalo salimbag Mar 2013 #6

I tried to read some Uncle Remus libodem Mar 2013 #3

Pidgin is going nowhere, but teaching it in school is ridiculous. mahina Sep 2013 #7