Haoles and Friends

[4antares]

According to my linguist phd friend the local "pidgin" is actually Hawaiian Creole, creole being a language that has emerged from the intermingling of a variety of cultures and arose from the cane fields where Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, etc worked side by side and had to find a way to communicate. While the words are largely English now the syntax, structure and intonations have a great deal of Asian influence. I suspect Jamaican patois has other roots.

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