![]() "You lose that political sense of what pidgin means for the culture," Eric Chock, editor of a University of Hawaii literary magazine, told the Honolulu Advertiser. Tonouchi's approach, though, has drawn skepticism from other supporters, since his definition of pidgin includes the hip-hop slang that many young speakers now incorporate into it. But it's also treasured as a vital part of the culture by many local academics. Pidgin's lingering use has triggered some controversy - state officials speculated that its casual use in classrooms was the cause of dismal scores on national standardized writing exams. (A "babooze" is a goofy guy, "macoon" means big, and "irkatated" is irked or irritated.) The Hawaiian college instructor has been a longtime advocate for the island dialect, which evolved on plantations generations ago as people of widely disparate native tongues struggled to communicate with one another. ![]() Wondering what he said? Buy the book - Da Kine Dictionary. "By making da book we able for make da kine twin turbo action for both preserve and perpetuate da language." "Lotta da old-time pidgin peoples dying off," he said. Why did Lee Tonouchi feel the need to create a dictionary of Pidgin - also known as Hawaiian Creole English - to index such words as "babooze," "irkatated" and "macoon"? ![]()
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