03-15-2014, 01:56 AM
I don't see how your being familiar with Jamaican patois will help learn Hawaiian. It might possibly help with singing Jawaiian if your musically inclined.
I found it interesting how greatly the commonly spoken Hawaiian pidgin has changed from what I was familiar with from 40 years ago. I did run across an older guy in the phone store at the mall that spoke the pidgin I remembered. Looked like he was probably a cowboy. I always found it odd when non-locals went out of their way to sound like locals. Never sounds right to me. That said, when I moved back to the mainland years ago I had people comment on my strange accent. It supposedly sounded a bit like something from the N.E., oddly enough. While not picking up Hawaiian pidgin grammar, or lack thereof, I had absorbed some accent. It quickly faded.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
I found it interesting how greatly the commonly spoken Hawaiian pidgin has changed from what I was familiar with from 40 years ago. I did run across an older guy in the phone store at the mall that spoke the pidgin I remembered. Looked like he was probably a cowboy. I always found it odd when non-locals went out of their way to sound like locals. Never sounds right to me. That said, when I moved back to the mainland years ago I had people comment on my strange accent. It supposedly sounded a bit like something from the N.E., oddly enough. While not picking up Hawaiian pidgin grammar, or lack thereof, I had absorbed some accent. It quickly faded.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
S. FL
Big Islander to be.