Is pigeon considered a Hawaiin dialect? Or is it considered slang type junk?
Is it respected or frowned upon? It seems like a lot of Hawaiins use this dialect, is it comparable to possibly ebonics in the states?
''' wrote:I assume you mean pidgin, not pigeon, which is a bird, and fom a linguistics perspective, most pidgins are not viewed as languages or dialects, they're ad-hoc media of communication combining any or all of the languages of the relelvant parties, but if pidgin in hawaii has taken on it's own meaning, I don't know
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