03-15-2014, 02:33 PM
Kelena, I change my inflection whenever IÔm talking to someone with a local accent. It helps them understand me better and shows IÔve been around for a while. I know I canÔt pull off pidgin, but after 12 years IÔd better be able to change my vowel sounds and phrase things like locals do.
No one ever blinks when I do that. To them, itÔs how people talk, so why shouldnÔt I talk that way?
When I went to Ireland I started doing that automatically, it was so fun, and about five days in an American tourist assumed I was Irish because of the way I was talking. Oops. [:p] My grandmother was from Ireland so it was kind of wired in.
I think that haole people who say haoles will always sound dumb with pidgin just arenÔt good with slang and thing no one else will be. I know IÔm not good with it. I was brought up by parents who spoke properly all the time and IÔm cursed.
My kids were skate rat punks who used their own language to talk to their bros. ItÔs not at all hard for them to pick up pidgin, and turn bro to brah. But I will say if you have to use your brain to think about it when you speak it, thatÔs probably going to be mockable.
It has to just flow effortlessly. The people who hear that will hear it is coming natural and they wonÔt mock you.
No one ever blinks when I do that. To them, itÔs how people talk, so why shouldnÔt I talk that way?
When I went to Ireland I started doing that automatically, it was so fun, and about five days in an American tourist assumed I was Irish because of the way I was talking. Oops. [:p] My grandmother was from Ireland so it was kind of wired in.
I think that haole people who say haoles will always sound dumb with pidgin just arenÔt good with slang and thing no one else will be. I know IÔm not good with it. I was brought up by parents who spoke properly all the time and IÔm cursed.
My kids were skate rat punks who used their own language to talk to their bros. ItÔs not at all hard for them to pick up pidgin, and turn bro to brah. But I will say if you have to use your brain to think about it when you speak it, thatÔs probably going to be mockable.
It has to just flow effortlessly. The people who hear that will hear it is coming natural and they wonÔt mock you.