Hawaii’s Lee Tonouchi is an accomplished author, playwright and poet who utilizes pidgin to communicate everything.
Artist Harry Lyons drew Columbia Inn owner Tosh Kaneshiro wearing an “Ain’ no beeg t’ing” button. Kaneshiro was a Dodger fan, and the team struggled to win a World Series. In Hawaii, people from China ...
MILILANI, Hawaii (AP) — When Hawaii comedian Andy Bumatai was searching for a new way to attract the attention of audiences on the Internet, his wife suggested he find inspiration in something from ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — You may not notice it, you may not speak it, you may not understand it but make no mistakes about it, Hawaiiʻs pidgin accent is tops in the U.S. Get Hawaii’s latest morning news ...
Above, one of the first local comedy albums was Kent Bowman’s “Pidgin English Children’s Stories” in 1961. Above, Douglas Simonson’s “Pidgin to Da Max” comic-­style book sold an astounding 25,000 ...