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Ho brah, da udda dey, I wen spahk dis page on da web. An den I tawt ho cuz, stay fo'eva since I wen bus da pidgin! Fo real brah I neva tawt dat I wud foget but since I wuz one small keed, ma maddah wen tell me fo stop. She sed no speak lidat bumbai you get one haad time fo get one job. Den jus lidat she wen pu me out Kaulawela skoo (das right nex Liliha Square nea Mayor Wrights) and she wen sen me private skoo. Was haad but das awri cuz I wuz still one small keed.

But for real kine, Now I no can speak la dis. Take me looong time fo rememba aw diskine stuff.  Afta leaving Kalihi, I wen move east side and I grew up one townie. So befo you get aw lolo an say "Eh brah, no ac! You no speak lidat!" Das tru. So wat boddah you?

But dat page fo real bring back some memreez. Get aw kine words I neva tink about fo long time. Chai click on da odda pages too (get moa den eighty-chree pages!) Get plenny words like hemo, an bumbucha, get ereding! Get aw kine old skoo stories like movies at Toyo by da Chinese Cultural Plaza. Ho da times wen change! But mo betta I stop cus dis making my spellcheck aw hemajang ladat.

Fo aw you haoles dat no can read dis. Chai dis one. But like ere'one say back home, "If can can , If no can... no can!"

Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 02:29PM by Registered Commenterrick in | Comments9 Comments

Reader Comments (9)

わはははは~大笑い! 最高だわ。cool.

January 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMari

i can't even imagine you talking like this! haha

January 29, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkeiki

OMG..super funny! Took me a while to read it & I still live in HI. K-den cuz :)

January 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterHolly

dude, you should talk like that at work!

January 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterClayton

Mari:超時間かかった!

Keiki: But I bet you can imagine all your friends speaking like that! ;)

Holly: "If I come stay go and you no stay come what fo I go??" I love shit like that. Getting back to the roots baby!

Clayton: If it only came that naturally.

January 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRick

Eh das right! I wen public skoo but den my parents wen trow me in Iolani and I los my pidgin mojo! One Punahou grad where I work sed sound fake wen I do 'em. Das right - one Punahou guy get betta skilz den me. @$#^&&***!!! Even if 2 of da guys I wen hang wit live across da street from Farrington! Oh heck, even this sounds fake. FAIL.

January 30, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterOyaji-sama

sadly yes - including my boyfriend! haha however, when he's around non-moke people, he's very well capable of speaking the non-pidgin dialect of standard american english.

February 3, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkeiki

Dude, I cant even get myself to read that @_@
Kiwi/Maori is sooooooo much easier -_-;

February 7, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJonny

Hoo! Awesome brah! Nobody speak laidat much cept skoo...an countree...

June 11, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSkyBuzz

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