“Pidgin:” It’s Not a Hawaiian Bird
You’ve no doubt at least heard the word pidgin or pidgin-English in an island context, and if you were without the luxuries of Google at the time, you may have deduced that the conversation referred to some kind of bird.
Actually pidgin is an informal hybrid language; one simplified language that has risen from one or more mother tongues. It’s not exactly a dialect, and not exactly slang, although the pidgin spoken in Hawai’i is often confused with slangy, regional English. Spoken slowly, you will probably understand enough of it to know what the speaker is saying. Spoken rapidly, it …read more
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