I was born & raised in O'ahu for 6 year (My mom is hapa & my dad is black) but then moved to the mainland, but now i'm gonna move back to Hawai'i~ Such a beautiful place with beautiful people~ I can't wait!
I love it when i get to hear my parents & other family members talk pidgin. =3
yes we still do speak hawaiian and we speak pidgin. not everyone speaks hawaiian but it doesn't matter, pidgin actually brought all the different ethnic races together
Ho brahdas, I find it so funny when I talk to my relatives on da mainland cuz dey all like, "What, can you not speak proper English? What have your mom and dad taught you?" and like, I'm all like, "Shiiiet, it not dat I no kine know English, it not a choice eitha brah, it one lifestyle."
No matter how much others dis us dissing them back isn't the answer. Spread the aloha even to the people that don't deserve it. Makes us better people. If we attack them too then it makes us just as bad. (in comedy everyone trashes everybody so I am not referring to this video) People are gonna see your guys comments and be like wow people from Hawaii are mean.. I don't want people to think I am mean.
k first of all. you dum white men is what fucked up hawaii in the first place. this not the mainland so no fucken drive like it is. secondly thanks for spending all your money here but nofogetfogohome. and third, shut the fuck up already, yeah i not hawaiian i flip/jap but fuck i get respect fo people who talk ladat cuz i talk ladat myself. does everything need to be "proper" english for u fakaz fo undastand?? no get mad haoles, u need one straw?, FO SUCK UM UP. geez! props to auntie dakine and
From a Hawai'i boy raised on Oahu, now living in LA: IT SUCKS HERE. All fake kine peoples, no aloha. Alla you guys, be glad fo' stay live Hawai'i, eh?
@tiyenin LA as in Louisiana or Los Angeles? I'm stuck in North Cali and it sucks here too. It also has fake people w/ no aloha as well.
Slapping myself for not moving to Kona with my dad (where he was raised) when I was a teenager... been regretting it for the past year or so. Been there several times to visit, and I wish I woulda stayed.
To anyone reading, I need some help from fluent speakers in Hawaiian pidgin. I’m writing a story for a class and part of the story takes place in Hawaii so I need help with translating what I write into pidgin. If anyone wants to help me out with that I’d REALLY REALLY appreciate it. Please contact me and let me know if you can help, my story is being held up because of this. I could just write it in plain ordinary English but I would still like the option. Thanks so much!!!
@sweetmystique32 BOY, YOU MAKE IT REALLY HARD TO CONTACT YOU. Can't message on youtube nor myspace without friendship, so I left you a comment on your youtube profile (was hoping to be more private with a PM but whatever).
whats funny is that some of these honkeys think we stupid cuz we talk pidgin but den....... i stay watching t.v. and get these fucking haoles trying fo speak pidgin hahahaha wtf . hahaha these wannabe surfers trowing the shaka... hahaha unreal like they know wtf local style is all about unrealz
@JvCbruhduh , mlppl are the minority on the islands (Waikiki on a saturday night does not count...LOL). on paper it is CLAIMED a state, in the hearts and minds of the ruling majority..., this is Hawaii. this is where having a crappy education system affects mlppl, by not knowing much history, there will only be regress...good luck to you and ALOHA.
pidgin is its own language. even da white man said so. but fuck wat dey say. it was its own language before dey made it "official". fukn haoles. nahten is good unless dey say so. i jus trip. dash rite aunty. school deze fakaz how we do da fukn broken english. u gotta add da swearing too. wassawp wit dat?xD
Pidgin is not Hawaiian. Pidgin originated from the kanaka Pake (chinese) because they mixed English and Chinese i.e. chowchow-kaukau. Pidgin is "local", but not Hawaiian.
@kanehawaii Sorry but whoever told you Pidgin is JUST Chinese and English lied to you. Everythign auntie says is right: its syntax is largely English with elements of Hawai'ian, plus a shitload of terms from every language of influence.
Go tita! Wow haters down there why don't you get your heads out your ass!! Just cause you don't know nothing about Hawai'i doesn't mean you guys gotta be raciest shit man
anyway pidgin is just a way for those back then who came to work at the plantations in hawaii who did not speak english to communicate with those "haole" people who were in charge and stuff like that :P lol
there are different kinds of ENGLISH and pidgin is one of them. the problem with your type or kind of people is that you have to have the world follow what you do, think, eat, drive crappy cars, act rich and almighty, live the american dream(nightmare), have a crappy education system, have one of the worst healthcare on this planet, I can go on and on. YES WE ARE POOR BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS not like in the mainland where mlppl are nothing but numbers. get a clue, ALOHA
Healthcare in Hawai'i is arguably better than most of the mainland US since employers are required to provide insurance if you work 20 hours+ per week.
@nokaoi1000 a pidgin is even more exciting than english. it's english (or another language) that is evolving. it's a fucking awesome phenomenon. pidgins turn into creoles, which eventually can become real languages. that's where italian, french, spanish all came from... people don't take pidgins seriously for some dumb reason but yeah man they are real languages!
@pubeafro "real" languages evolve as well you know... and these days pidgin languages generally don't evolve anymore but become more similar to the "standard" languages because of mass media, schools etc. Look at cape-verdean creole for example.
you know a part of Albert Einstein's brain was missing right? and one part was 15% larger. So brain size is an incomplete justification. GO TO COLLEGE.
Johnny, gtfo. Your grammar isn't up to par either, and honestly, you'd last about fifteen seconds against the fist brah you came across. Hell, this first tita you'd come across would have choke beef with you. You'd be buss up garans.
I'm Hawaiian myself and I can speak perfect English. I can also speak New Yorker and Southern Lousiana and Florida. I'm also not the only one. Also a good majority of people that do speak pidgin have degrees and have great careers. Just like anyone else in the mainland who have been successful we have as well. So before you leave another weak ass opinion like that you come to Hawaii and do your research. Here's a fact for you to remember. I wipe my ass with your opinions. That's all it's worth.
wow. great argument. and you got sources and everything. man, i wish i brought sources to my argument... haha i find it comical that you speak of ignorance. you crack me up :)
i challenge you to learn chinese in a matter of weeks. if you can't, going by your criteria, that would make you ignorant with a low intellect with a smaller brain, and dance really bad.
uh, buddy? forbes put hawaii as #4 healthiest state. so, uh... anytime you want to shove that ignorant hate back up your ass, feel free.
and just so you know, pidgin was born in the plantations as a mix of many different languages spoken by the imported workers (chinese, japanese, filipino, korean, etc.) so the workers could communicate with each other without learning the most difficult language to learn in the world, being english
I miss the islands & I do miss being surrounded by everyone speaking pidgin. When I came to Cali, it was hard to actually speak what most would consider "proper english". Looking back, I wish I never really stopped speaking pidgin.
woah...get a grip umabeeya...Hawaiian pidgin only one of several pidgin languages, internationally recognized by international language scholars..So like it or not..it is an actual language which has rules and structures.
lmao, what do u do chk who commented this vid every day? nobody really gives a shit wat u think, it aint a language, its bad grammer, u dont like it, point made. move on with ur life already, u left 4 comments on this vid.
What? It makes a hell of a lot more sense than txt tlk and whatever else (other than regular english) most people are using these days. I like pidgin.
i love pidgin english i lived in kauai and ho u needa learn pidgin if not u not goin fit in and its much easier than english u all jsut hate cuz u cant tlk like that and its the best other than spanglish ha
You know people all around the world speak differently and if you are saying speak like a human being then thats exactly what they are doing! Who knows the real way human beings speak for all we know this was all just made up from somewhere! So when you figure out what the rite way for a Human being to speak tell me maybe I learn it! Don't tell me its english cause braddah english is many different languages put togather! so when you find out tell me please!
Wow, you've taken self-loathing to an entirely new level. How sad for you that you think we Hawaiians aren't "presentable" just the way we are. Do you think the entire world speaks perfect English? What world is this? Society's ignorance is not our job to fix. How many wish they could live in a grass hut on the beach and dance hula all day?
You have understand it is Hawaii, I am from Hawaii and love Hawaii style living. I am a Houli and can respect it, its a way of Hawaii and I love it. Its slang and its home. BRA! YOU UNDA STAN!!!
On the contrary, Hawaiian is a real language that is still very much alive today. "No such thing?" Are you kidding me? If there was no such thing, how come many people still speak the language? And we HAVE learned some real English. I believe what I am typing right now is English. So, before you make some assumption like:" no such thing as Hawaiian language," check again.
This makes me a little sad! i moved from hawaii to virginia when i was a little girl and told i had a speech problem and had to take 6 years of speech cause i didn't talk "properly". Who are they to judge, stupid haole people it was my language!.
You wen go to mainland, you wen see a lotta kine ignorant, wha?
Some people just don't fucking get it. We hear foreign languages and assume they don't know how to talk to each other unless it's in OUR language. Jeez... @_@
I agree. I can't even begin to understand Jamaican Creole/Patwa and I've lived and worked with Jamaicans my whole life. Based on this video Hawaiian Pidgin is just another dialect of American English, with a tiny number of Indigenous loanwords. But I mean this isn't any harder to follow than a typical episode of the Sopranos.
so the Hawaian also speak a vernicular english with a bit of indigenous lingo twist. what gets me is why people ( just about everyone who isn't black ) think Ghanains, african americans , Nigerians who also speak a vernicular english or creolised english are doing a disservice to what is assumed the anglosaxon culture.IMHO it just seems natural to adapt some subtle words and grammar construction to the indigenous languages.
Yes she does, in fact she speaks very proper English in her profession as many local people do. She is "bi-lingual" just as her performance illustrates.
Didn't you hear what she was saying? She was explaining the grammatical structure of the Hawaiian language and how it puts the adjective before the noun. Wouldn't she have to understand proper English in order to know that?
When I first moved to the US, I thought Pidgin was official english. So when i moved to the mainland I got screwed over in school and had to be put in ESL
LOVE THIS!!!!!!!! I moved to Hawaii from Wisconsin in the beginning I had NO IDEA what they were sayin it was even difficult to order food but I have been here a year and I know it like I know regular english....I even catch myself talking like it now...my 4 y/o had a local auntie that watched her while I worked she knows it just as well LOVE IT I am going to miss this place!!!!!
WatGob, for someone who seems so highly intelligent, let me tell you something. Pidgin is part of the culture and it dates back to chinese immigrants in the 1800's who came to Hawai'i to work on plantations. The only way they could communicate was this broken English. Hawai'i was and still is a melting pot for ALL cultures. So before you start saying it's a corruption to English, know your facts. This is part of OUR culture, and has been for over a century. Get used to it.
in my linguistics class at high school i have to do a presentation on hawaiian creole english, this is really informative, not just because of what she's talking about, but the phonetics and syntax in this is really interesting. thanks for posting
While Hawaiian Creole is a mix of different languages, the meaning of the words used are more extensive, and the sentence structure is NOT that of traditional English. It is a separate language. Furthermore, the ability to speak Hawaiian Creole does not mean you are uneducated. My father spoke 'Pidgeon', and he attended MIT. Also, define 'corruption'? One could consider 'American English' a 'corrupted' form of the British language. So, you know wat? Cool your jets, and relax already.
and what is wrong with grass Hale's and hula? Presentability is relative, as far as I'm concern when the foreigners came here they should of made themselves presentable to us. ala we have a hodge podge of languages that mix together to create the colorful worls we live in , Diversity is healthy it is not a negative thing, is like taking a southener and trying to make them presentable to a bostonian.. everybody can meet on one common gorund .. Dont shun us , we are who we are
Nothing wrong with pidgin, it *is* a part of the local culture here. To preserve the culture I'd encourage its use more. Only thing is that there a time and place for it.
She's hilarious and I missed half of what she was saying. I've been to the islands three times and it's all true. I love the people, history and culture.
What you were watching was exactly described. Cathy Collins is local performance artist on the island of Maui. She was in character as "Tita" performing for an AIDS benefit. The fact that you do not understand what she is talking about does not make it garbage. It means only that you cannot understand. I posted this out of respect for the local culture in Hawaii.
I agree ahimahealani. I don't know where all these other people come from but I've never heard pidgin sound so forced and fake like whoever that lady is trying to make it sound like. I would put money down that she doesn't talk like that in every day life. I'm from the big island ahimahealani what about you? Maybe different islands speak more Moke-ish than the others? I'm glad no one i know talks like this. That's just irritating.
Ahi - There are many different forms of pidgin. She is talking pidgin, whether you think she is or not. A haole wouldn't be able to put up her accent OR talk the way she does. Just because you don't think it's pidgin doesn't mean that it isn't. There are people out there who speak thick Pidgin like she does. By da way brah, jus' cuz u one kine Hawaiian, dat don' make you betta den any of us. (:
I am a "haole" and I feel that pidgin is a respectable dialect and way of speaking. No problem with it. I also speak conversational Hawaiian very well. I think speaking Hawaiian is very important to continue the culture.
Wow..well spoken Aunty. She is speaking truth about the history of Hawaii's language. Pidgin is something that's in us, passed on from gen -> gen. I've been up here in da mainland for 10 yrs but my pidgin still comes out when i stay w my ppl. Some haoles..so ignorant to criticize da Hawaiians for the way they speak. Everyone in this country & world have an accent whether in CA, NY, Mid-west. It just depends on where u r. And no, Hawaiians did not steal it from da Jamaicans..get over yourselves.
Ho Auntie u get um! Auntie Tita wen say um perfek kine!!
hakushaku10 1 month ago
Ho tita u must be potagee.lmao
ahhsukmytoe96792 2 months ago 3
Perfection...absolute perfection....I mean ..ho! Teta, you so smaat! Preech um mary!'..ho! She wen give em! lol!
AustroAikane 5 months ago
LEGIT STUFF RITE HEA!!!.....
carmie329 6 months ago
Lol reminds me of my auntie
procrastination100 7 months ago
I was born & raised in O'ahu for 6 year (My mom is hapa & my dad is black) but then moved to the mainland, but now i'm gonna move back to Hawai'i~ Such a beautiful place with beautiful people~ I can't wait!
I love it when i get to hear my parents & other family members talk pidgin. =3
Reiki101 8 months ago
yes we still do speak hawaiian and we speak pidgin. not everyone speaks hawaiian but it doesn't matter, pidgin actually brought all the different ethnic races together
ponimamala 9 months ago
in my native dialect in Nigeria ALUA OR ALOHA means welcome and West African pidgin started from there. The people are called IJAW.
Killayut 10 months ago
Ho brahdas, I find it so funny when I talk to my relatives on da mainland cuz dey all like, "What, can you not speak proper English? What have your mom and dad taught you?" and like, I'm all like, "Shiiiet, it not dat I no kine know English, it not a choice eitha brah, it one lifestyle."
DeckuZora 10 months ago
I dont listen to her words, but WHOA she is a sexy woman!
TheSunmanho 10 months ago
do hawaiians actually speak native hawaiian still?
imfromtambunan 10 months ago
@imfromtambunan some .
vylkyl 6 months ago
She no stay mad, Aunti just tell um' how it stay.
ladykuvar 10 months ago
y is this lady so mad?
mookalitis 10 months ago
@mookalitis
she not mad
NealMichelleNoelani 10 months ago
Why no voice actors in animation use dis english?(And yes, my pidgin english sucks)
Daimando 11 months ago
No matter how much others dis us dissing them back isn't the answer. Spread the aloha even to the people that don't deserve it. Makes us better people. If we attack them too then it makes us just as bad. (in comedy everyone trashes everybody so I am not referring to this video) People are gonna see your guys comments and be like wow people from Hawaii are mean.. I don't want people to think I am mean.
wufscello 11 months ago
I can talk Hawaiian pidgen cuz i lived in Hawaii :P
gimmepb 1 year ago
k first of all. you dum white men is what fucked up hawaii in the first place. this not the mainland so no fucken drive like it is. secondly thanks for spending all your money here but nofogetfogohome. and third, shut the fuck up already, yeah i not hawaiian i flip/jap but fuck i get respect fo people who talk ladat cuz i talk ladat myself. does everything need to be "proper" english for u fakaz fo undastand?? no get mad haoles, u need one straw?, FO SUCK UM UP. geez! props to auntie dakine and
Kapolihawaii 1 year ago 2
From a Hawai'i boy raised on Oahu, now living in LA: IT SUCKS HERE. All fake kine peoples, no aloha. Alla you guys, be glad fo' stay live Hawai'i, eh?
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeee huuuuuuuuuu!!
tiyenin 1 year ago 74
@tiyenin i feel you uce. im a filipino raised in american samoa and now i stay in LA as well - dayum it's hard to find legit islanders like us there.
swishfo3 1 year ago
@tiyenin LA as in Louisiana or Los Angeles? I'm stuck in North Cali and it sucks here too. It also has fake people w/ no aloha as well.
Slapping myself for not moving to Kona with my dad (where he was raised) when I was a teenager... been regretting it for the past year or so. Been there several times to visit, and I wish I woulda stayed.
You're absolutely right.
ZenDeividdo 11 months ago
@ZenDeividdo Los Angeles
tiyenin 11 months ago
@tiyenin so true..i was born & raised on oahu too..and now living here in cali..NOTHING like how it is back home....
MZianeta 11 months ago
@tiyenin So, come home, what you doin over there anyway? Come hooooome!
vinishdo 7 months ago
To anyone reading, I need some help from fluent speakers in Hawaiian pidgin. I’m writing a story for a class and part of the story takes place in Hawaii so I need help with translating what I write into pidgin. If anyone wants to help me out with that I’d REALLY REALLY appreciate it. Please contact me and let me know if you can help, my story is being held up because of this. I could just write it in plain ordinary English but I would still like the option. Thanks so much!!!
sweetmystique32 1 year ago
@sweetmystique32 BOY, YOU MAKE IT REALLY HARD TO CONTACT YOU. Can't message on youtube nor myspace without friendship, so I left you a comment on your youtube profile (was hoping to be more private with a PM but whatever).
tiyenin 1 year ago
@tiyenin I sent you a message and you haven’t replied yet, so I’m wondering if we’re playing tag or what lol.
Message me back ok. Thanx
sweetmystique32 1 year ago
@sweetmystique32 What kine tings you like know ??
deeaclark 1 year ago
Hahahah sooo funny youu!
BAMberrrrr 1 year ago
whats funny is that some of these honkeys think we stupid cuz we talk pidgin but den....... i stay watching t.v. and get these fucking haoles trying fo speak pidgin hahahaha wtf . hahaha these wannabe surfers trowing the shaka... hahaha unreal like they know wtf local style is all about unrealz
RamUmHard808 1 year ago
good video auntie
AlohaMaggieSteele 1 year ago
@JvCbruhduh , mlppl are the minority on the islands (Waikiki on a saturday night does not count...LOL). on paper it is CLAIMED a state, in the hearts and minds of the ruling majority..., this is Hawaii. this is where having a crappy education system affects mlppl, by not knowing much history, there will only be regress...good luck to you and ALOHA.
nokaoi1000 1 year ago
i love pidgin talk it reminds me of my friends and my time in hawaii :( i miss it!!!
MrKrayola13 1 year ago
best thing ive seen all day. Chee hee
notoriousz2 1 year ago
hahahaha good stuff
1234567890sunshine 1 year ago
Eh!! Who da munkehs dat went dislike da video... does fakas i tell you.
JuiceBag808 1 year ago
and i jus wen realize what she stay wearing. eh aunty, what u tryn fo be? one peacock? mean da dope
NALOBUILT808 1 year ago
pidgin is its own language. even da white man said so. but fuck wat dey say. it was its own language before dey made it "official". fukn haoles. nahten is good unless dey say so. i jus trip. dash rite aunty. school deze fakaz how we do da fukn broken english. u gotta add da swearing too. wassawp wit dat?xD
NALOBUILT808 1 year ago
ohhhh i love it! do you have any more of her??? she is great!!!
Kamalu0nalani 1 year ago
She is so funny and so true.
hawaiianstyleinjapan 1 year ago
Pidgin is not Hawaiian. Pidgin originated from the kanaka Pake (chinese) because they mixed English and Chinese i.e. chowchow-kaukau. Pidgin is "local", but not Hawaiian.
kanehawaii 1 year ago
@kanehawaii nah i think pidgin evolved enough to be hawaiian pidgin cause only hawaiians still speal em and we made quite a few changes to it
fattkattz55 1 year ago
@kanehawaii Sorry but whoever told you Pidgin is JUST Chinese and English lied to you. Everythign auntie says is right: its syntax is largely English with elements of Hawai'ian, plus a shitload of terms from every language of influence.
tiyenin 1 year ago
fckn haoles took da hawaaian land bra! . odda den dat, maika'i 2 aunty! haha she crack me up 2 da max bra! haha
808stoner 1 year ago
What is that she is wearing on her head and on her ass?!
rubin808 1 year ago
@rubin808 Feathers? xD Maybe?
iCraacked 1 year ago
you guys ever wonder if obama talk pigin when no more cameras around?
Kittman05 1 year ago 3
@Kittman05 hahah! i wonder!
miszc0ng3niality 1 year ago
@Kittman05 Punahou grad; I doubt it.
tiyenin 1 year ago
"and you know how that worked out for Captain Cook...." LOL funny lady
stickman69uk2002 1 year ago
Oo i cried when watch dis! I stay laughin da whole time!
TheMailekinns 1 year ago
ho bah dat wuz funny!! my haole frenz tink i stay crazy cuz i stay laffin at dis video. dey no undastan wat goin on lol
VixXxEn8o8 1 year ago
ho- shootz these houlees dont no 1 thing bout da kine
xenitelis1 1 year ago
ahahaaha dats so funny!!! i love em..
laietwins 1 year ago
Does this woman have a background in linguistics, or is she just purely an entertainer?
Either way, she's got some brilliant insight on how pidgins and creoles are formed from superstrate and substrate languages.
DCProductions2 1 year ago 2
Go tita! Wow haters down there why don't you get your heads out your ass!! Just cause you don't know nothing about Hawai'i doesn't mean you guys gotta be raciest shit man
kianacarter 1 year ago 3
cheeeeeeheeeeee!!! and to all da haole hatersss...dis is pdigin... and no talk shet on top hea,...k tanks
tripintwenty4seven 1 year ago 2
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mauigurl93 1 year ago
Yeah but what happened to Samoa was minor compared to Haiti. There are MILLIONS dying in Haiti. In Haiti its much more serious.
JR4934 1 year ago
Brah I frikn LUV dis video..tita tell um lyk it is:)
mauigurl93 1 year ago
right on, im here in kaneohe oahu, i understand all the local talk, im local gal here, i know what you say k?
RsNoober808 1 year ago
My kine ah talk!
DuttyGyal718 2 years ago
Wow you must of scrapped in Hawaii and got beat up....it's ok thats why i know you got lickins!!!
jongrillon 2 years ago
got me rollin
grafzilla 2 years ago
eh, I'm one hawaiian nuttin ignorant about our language bra
Nakdman654 2 years ago 3
hahahahaha tita would go... cracks me up man!
orangetransformer 2 years ago
soons i graduate high school, im moving over there
frankwhite432 2 years ago
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@watevazcleva What language are you talking, Chinkese???
ching chong ping pang pong, kammanawannalaya, yamama'isahora, big kaluki kiki wiki hai, kahuna tuna muna pai
Stupid slant-eyed devil
johnny07652 2 years ago
People arguing about "proper" English need to take a few linguistics classes and pull their heads out of their asses.
lolinternetslol 2 years ago
hahaha too funny
anyway pidgin is just a way for those back then who came to work at the plantations in hawaii who did not speak english to communicate with those "haole" people who were in charge and stuff like that :P lol
susanskitty4life 2 years ago 3
u should listen to the old farts speaking like this, 5 foot midgits speaking pidgin LOL
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Chefsam2563 2 years ago
there are different kinds of ENGLISH and pidgin is one of them. the problem with your type or kind of people is that you have to have the world follow what you do, think, eat, drive crappy cars, act rich and almighty, live the american dream(nightmare), have a crappy education system, have one of the worst healthcare on this planet, I can go on and on. YES WE ARE POOR BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS not like in the mainland where mlppl are nothing but numbers. get a clue, ALOHA
nokaoi1000 2 years ago 46
Healthcare in Hawai'i is arguably better than most of the mainland US since employers are required to provide insurance if you work 20 hours+ per week.
Also, no such thing as "proper" english.
lolinternetslol 2 years ago 4
@nokaoi1000 haha I agree with this, Im Hawaiian, born and raised on the mainland, but life here is miserable -_-.
And I dont know my neighbors xD
JJBE 1 year ago
@JJBE AMEN
searider92 1 year ago
@nokaoi1000 a pidgin is even more exciting than english. it's english (or another language) that is evolving. it's a fucking awesome phenomenon. pidgins turn into creoles, which eventually can become real languages. that's where italian, french, spanish all came from... people don't take pidgins seriously for some dumb reason but yeah man they are real languages!
pubeafro 1 year ago
@pubeafro "real" languages evolve as well you know... and these days pidgin languages generally don't evolve anymore but become more similar to the "standard" languages because of mass media, schools etc. Look at cape-verdean creole for example.
schizoidchimp 1 year ago
@pubeafro oh and italian, french and spanish all came from vulgar latin, so i guess you just don't know wtf you're talking about
schizoidchimp 1 year ago
@nokaoi1000 pidgin is a dialect of english
Zonda808 7 months ago
What?
Chefsam2563 2 years ago 3
you know a part of Albert Einstein's brain was missing right? and one part was 15% larger. So brain size is an incomplete justification. GO TO COLLEGE.
missversachi 2 years ago
Johnny, gtfo. Your grammar isn't up to par either, and honestly, you'd last about fifteen seconds against the fist brah you came across. Hell, this first tita you'd come across would have choke beef with you. You'd be buss up garans.
ReverendFord 2 years ago
I'm Hawaiian myself and I can speak perfect English. I can also speak New Yorker and Southern Lousiana and Florida. I'm also not the only one. Also a good majority of people that do speak pidgin have degrees and have great careers. Just like anyone else in the mainland who have been successful we have as well. So before you leave another weak ass opinion like that you come to Hawaii and do your research. Here's a fact for you to remember. I wipe my ass with your opinions. That's all it's worth.
svxe 2 years ago 5
wow. great argument. and you got sources and everything. man, i wish i brought sources to my argument... haha i find it comical that you speak of ignorance. you crack me up :)
i challenge you to learn chinese in a matter of weeks. if you can't, going by your criteria, that would make you ignorant with a low intellect with a smaller brain, and dance really bad.
hucar3z 2 years ago
uh, buddy? forbes put hawaii as #4 healthiest state. so, uh... anytime you want to shove that ignorant hate back up your ass, feel free.
and just so you know, pidgin was born in the plantations as a mix of many different languages spoken by the imported workers (chinese, japanese, filipino, korean, etc.) so the workers could communicate with each other without learning the most difficult language to learn in the world, being english
hucar3z 2 years ago 3
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fuck'n hang your self ignorant fuck!
Amarksyhk 2 years ago
I miss the islands & I do miss being surrounded by everyone speaking pidgin. When I came to Cali, it was hard to actually speak what most would consider "proper english". Looking back, I wish I never really stopped speaking pidgin.
tonganmixedmutt 2 years ago
hahahahaha
umabeeya 2 years ago
woah...get a grip umabeeya...Hawaiian pidgin only one of several pidgin languages, internationally recognized by international language scholars..So like it or not..it is an actual language which has rules and structures.
easthawaiiman 2 years ago
She is not embarrassing to me at all. It's just that her pidgin' accent is very thick. She actually sounds like one of my "hanai" aunties.
flippedoutandabout 2 years ago
there's plenty of other reasons
umabeeya 2 years ago
lmao, what do u do chk who commented this vid every day? nobody really gives a shit wat u think, it aint a language, its bad grammer, u dont like it, point made. move on with ur life already, u left 4 comments on this vid.
KahuKaEnaGurl 2 years ago
hahaha get angrier!
umabeeya 2 years ago
I wasn't TRYING to validate it as a language.
devsHaruhix 2 years ago
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good for you
umabeeya 2 years ago
What? It makes a hell of a lot more sense than txt tlk and whatever else (other than regular english) most people are using these days. I like pidgin.
devsHaruhix 2 years ago
I like watch these videos 'cause I no normally remembah how talk pidgin. I undahstand when I hear it, but I no can talk most dah time.
devsHaruhix 2 years ago
To Hawaiians out there, would you say Nigerian Pidgin would be accepted?
TheRocketVoltage 2 years ago
i love pidgin english i lived in kauai and ho u needa learn pidgin if not u not goin fit in and its much easier than english u all jsut hate cuz u cant tlk like that and its the best other than spanglish ha
PRISALACAR 2 years ago
people that can't understand it hate being left out so they attempt to make fun
73vegadude 2 years ago 3
great history lesson.
deatha44 2 years ago
If you truly cared,you'd educate by posting the answers to those questions,instead of using sarcasm.
MenomaMinx 2 years ago
brings back memories of my time in Jamaica, chattin patois. yuh si wah mi uh seh?
alboo79 2 years ago
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wow it sounds stupid
it doesnt matter if you think it is a real language its just dumb and makes you sound like a retarded moron
learn how to speak like a human being and not like a pot smoking idiot
right on
normandrummer 2 years ago
You know people all around the world speak differently and if you are saying speak like a human being then thats exactly what they are doing! Who knows the real way human beings speak for all we know this was all just made up from somewhere! So when you figure out what the rite way for a Human being to speak tell me maybe I learn it! Don't tell me its english cause braddah english is many different languages put togather! so when you find out tell me please!
AgaeseT01 2 years ago 8
im half hawaiian most of my family that lives in hawaii talks like this. i love it(:
jesusfreak41111 2 years ago 3
dude she looks like a peacock
mcspazi 2 years ago
Titta say no litta.
HyuniHyuni 2 years ago
She sound like hawai'ian kine Eart'a Kitt! :D
Otacon144 2 years ago 4
HAHAHAHA!!!
MangoNinja 2 years ago
You tell them Tita!
dukemasuya 2 years ago 2
This is awesome. Time to recommend this to friends on the mainland who can't understand me to save their LIFE when I'm hyper.
xLinaChansDEADx 2 years ago 2
@xLinaChansDEADx Or you can buy them copies of Peppo's Pidgin to da Max...
tiyenin 1 year ago
Flying Saucer's ignorance is astounding. What are the chances that he's part black or American Indian and doesn't know it?
mizbrianna9768 2 years ago
Exactly.
WatGob 2 years ago
Exactly.
WatGob 2 years ago
I have.
WatGob 2 years ago
not!!!!! u panty!!!
rayjohn90501 2 years ago
Wow, you've taken self-loathing to an entirely new level. How sad for you that you think we Hawaiians aren't "presentable" just the way we are. Do you think the entire world speaks perfect English? What world is this? Society's ignorance is not our job to fix. How many wish they could live in a grass hut on the beach and dance hula all day?
MangoNinja 2 years ago
We aren't half the time.
WatGob 2 years ago
You have understand it is Hawaii, I am from Hawaii and love Hawaii style living. I am a Houli and can respect it, its a way of Hawaii and I love it. Its slang and its home. BRA! YOU UNDA STAN!!!
rayjohn90501 2 years ago
Sounds like a jealous haole American to me. What's the matter, got no culture to call your own?
mizbrianna9768 2 years ago
Don't be jealous because we're the best.
killankali 2 years ago 3
On the contrary, Hawaiian is a real language that is still very much alive today. "No such thing?" Are you kidding me? If there was no such thing, how come many people still speak the language? And we HAVE learned some real English. I believe what I am typing right now is English. So, before you make some assumption like:" no such thing as Hawaiian language," check again.
xArmament 2 years ago 3
This makes me a little sad! i moved from hawaii to virginia when i was a little girl and told i had a speech problem and had to take 6 years of speech cause i didn't talk "properly". Who are they to judge, stupid haole people it was my language!.
hawangel 2 years ago 3
You wen go to mainland, you wen see a lotta kine ignorant, wha?
Some people just don't fucking get it. We hear foreign languages and assume they don't know how to talk to each other unless it's in OUR language. Jeez... @_@
Otacon144 2 years ago
Me too! I moved to Virginia from Hawaii in 77...
djJackMF 2 years ago
hi brah dash ryte!
aleihs808 2 years ago
"Listen To Titah No Littah"
ho brah she is da bestest
enagurl 2 years ago 2
I can't wait to go back home. I've been in NY too long. I sound like one faken haole.
aliamay 3 years ago
OMG! I'm in NY too. I'm staying things like "cwoffee" and stuff =P
margarinefly55 2 years ago
Is she speaking the creole? I thought i wouldnt be able to understand it but its pretty similar to english.
blazian88 3 years ago
I wish people in Hawaii would speak
creole.....
Hawaiian pidgin is ...........
kirkwood1991 2 years ago
I agree. I can't even begin to understand Jamaican Creole/Patwa and I've lived and worked with Jamaicans my whole life. Based on this video Hawaiian Pidgin is just another dialect of American English, with a tiny number of Indigenous loanwords. But I mean this isn't any harder to follow than a typical episode of the Sopranos.
apersonfromporlock 2 years ago 2
it's not just another dialect with limited indigenous loanwords, there are countless loanwords from hawaiian, japanese, portuguese, etc.
leoess247 2 years ago 2
interesting, its even called Creole .
so the Hawaian also speak a vernicular english with a bit of indigenous lingo twist. what gets me is why people ( just about everyone who isn't black ) think Ghanains, african americans , Nigerians who also speak a vernicular english or creolised english are doing a disservice to what is assumed the anglosaxon culture.IMHO it just seems natural to adapt some subtle words and grammar construction to the indigenous languages.
cannoir 2 years ago
chee hee! brah das right!
xstacyxgurlx 3 years ago
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I wonder if she understand standard English spoken in the continental US.
kirkwood1991 3 years ago
Yes she does, in fact she speaks very proper English in her profession as many local people do. She is "bi-lingual" just as her performance illustrates.
petamni 3 years ago
Didn't you hear what she was saying? She was explaining the grammatical structure of the Hawaiian language and how it puts the adjective before the noun. Wouldn't she have to understand proper English in order to know that?
MangoNinja 2 years ago
u tellem antiee.
brahdislloyd 3 years ago
mahalo plenty cuz fo' posting dis! ^_^
melaniekidd 3 years ago
I no can talk li dat but I can understand good.
NicKimiko 3 years ago
people actually can't understand this?
dude!
its soo easy!
illicit3an 3 years ago 3
when i first come to the island. i never could understand. but marrying my wife and being with her family it's so easy now lol.
zachjones225 3 years ago
ha ha listen to titah no litah LoL
i used fo talk like dat but i wen move da mainland...miss da hawaiian kine laguage better kine da way
enagurl 3 years ago 2
u tell em aunty
808Boi19 3 years ago 3
i used to talk like dat until i moved to mainland
sgtimafilipino 3 years ago
When I first moved to the US, I thought Pidgin was official english. So when i moved to the mainland I got screwed over in school and had to be put in ESL
GuardianShisa 3 years ago 3
i know fuck i came to the mainland for 3rd grade n up and people at school thought i was retarded.
but then i met some friends that had a local background and i was good to go.
integrazx6 3 years ago 4
haha she made me realize i bilingual
PIDGIN PRIDE!!! ahah
drenHURLEY 3 years ago
broken english. da ting not broken da ting works just fine.
LIL13S 3 years ago
LOVE THIS!!!!!!!! I moved to Hawaii from Wisconsin in the beginning I had NO IDEA what they were sayin it was even difficult to order food but I have been here a year and I know it like I know regular english....I even catch myself talking like it now...my 4 y/o had a local auntie that watched her while I worked she knows it just as well LOVE IT I am going to miss this place!!!!!
kayfaith 3 years ago 2
WatGob, for someone who seems so highly intelligent, let me tell you something. Pidgin is part of the culture and it dates back to chinese immigrants in the 1800's who came to Hawai'i to work on plantations. The only way they could communicate was this broken English. Hawai'i was and still is a melting pot for ALL cultures. So before you start saying it's a corruption to English, know your facts. This is part of OUR culture, and has been for over a century. Get used to it.
leikaimana 3 years ago 4
P.S. And those who are not familiar with the Hawaiian culture wouldn't understand anyway.
leikaimana 3 years ago 4
Of course, I could say I did and not have to.
WatGob 2 years ago
in my linguistics class at high school i have to do a presentation on hawaiian creole english, this is really informative, not just because of what she's talking about, but the phonetics and syntax in this is really interesting. thanks for posting
swphotos 3 years ago
While Hawaiian Creole is a mix of different languages, the meaning of the words used are more extensive, and the sentence structure is NOT that of traditional English. It is a separate language. Furthermore, the ability to speak Hawaiian Creole does not mean you are uneducated. My father spoke 'Pidgeon', and he attended MIT. Also, define 'corruption'? One could consider 'American English' a 'corrupted' form of the British language. So, you know wat? Cool your jets, and relax already.
PalakikaK 3 years ago 4
Nice response PalakikaK! You da man!
Destructoro6 3 years ago
very well said, my friend. :D
leoess247 2 years ago
haha guud wan anteh!
pyrodion 3 years ago
and what is wrong with grass Hale's and hula? Presentability is relative, as far as I'm concern when the foreigners came here they should of made themselves presentable to us. ala we have a hodge podge of languages that mix together to create the colorful worls we live in , Diversity is healthy it is not a negative thing, is like taking a southener and trying to make them presentable to a bostonian.. everybody can meet on one common gorund .. Dont shun us , we are who we are
StaceyAshton 3 years ago
Technically Hawaiian pidgin is usually considered to be a creole, not a pidgin.
lolinternetslol 3 years ago 2
Nothing wrong with pidgin, it *is* a part of the local culture here. To preserve the culture I'd encourage its use more. Only thing is that there a time and place for it.
lolinternetslol 3 years ago 3
wen dey had Hawaiians in Hawaii. =D Fo' real.
jojo808 3 years ago
funny that her name is Tita. heheh
RyanJones124 3 years ago
She's hilarious and I missed half of what she was saying. I've been to the islands three times and it's all true. I love the people, history and culture.
rsoubiea 3 years ago
that was fun to watch! lol
Sajalapeno 3 years ago
What you were watching was exactly described. Cathy Collins is local performance artist on the island of Maui. She was in character as "Tita" performing for an AIDS benefit. The fact that you do not understand what she is talking about does not make it garbage. It means only that you cannot understand. I posted this out of respect for the local culture in Hawaii.
petamni 3 years ago
I agree ahimahealani. I don't know where all these other people come from but I've never heard pidgin sound so forced and fake like whoever that lady is trying to make it sound like. I would put money down that she doesn't talk like that in every day life. I'm from the big island ahimahealani what about you? Maybe different islands speak more Moke-ish than the others? I'm glad no one i know talks like this. That's just irritating.
P0TAGEE 3 years ago
Ahi - There are many different forms of pidgin. She is talking pidgin, whether you think she is or not. A haole wouldn't be able to put up her accent OR talk the way she does. Just because you don't think it's pidgin doesn't mean that it isn't. There are people out there who speak thick Pidgin like she does. By da way brah, jus' cuz u one kine Hawaiian, dat don' make you betta den any of us. (:
Launuali 3 years ago 2
I am a "haole" and I feel that pidgin is a respectable dialect and way of speaking. No problem with it. I also speak conversational Hawaiian very well. I think speaking Hawaiian is very important to continue the culture.
rob91368 3 years ago 2
Kathy Collins is one real tita, at least on Mana`o Radio on Maui and her one-tita shows at the MACC.
lilsizemore76519 3 years ago
thats not nice
jchihara 3 years ago
Wow..well spoken Aunty. She is speaking truth about the history of Hawaii's language. Pidgin is something that's in us, passed on from gen -> gen. I've been up here in da mainland for 10 yrs but my pidgin still comes out when i stay w my ppl. Some haoles..so ignorant to criticize da Hawaiians for the way they speak. Everyone in this country & world have an accent whether in CA, NY, Mid-west. It just depends on where u r. And no, Hawaiians did not steal it from da Jamaicans..get over yourselves.