da kine/da kind, in Dictionary of American Regional English: Introduction and A-C, By Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall, Contributor Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Edition 6, (Harvard University Press, 1985), →ISBN.
Now this indispensable reference volume has been enlarged and completely revised. In HCE (Hawaiian Creole English), da kine is used generally to mean almost anything, particularly when referring to a thing whose name is not known or whose name does not come immediately to mind. For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. ( Hawaii ) The kind of thing we're discussing.Creoles develop from pidgins, and this language is no longer in the pidgin stage.English Alternative forms įrom Hawaiian Pidgin English da (the definite article, from English the) + kine (used as an intensifier, to mean "type of", and many other purposes, from English kind). According to Webster Advanced Learners English-Chinese Dictionary, the word Pidgin means a language that has developed from the need of speakers of two different languages to communicate and is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure. Any pidgin language based on Hawaiian, especially used in the second half of the 19th century and the earliest 20th century.ĭespite the literal meaning of the word pidgin, the language is instead considered by linguists to be a well developed creole, because a creole is the native language of a group of people, whereas a pidgin has no native speakers, and is a blended, ad-hoc trade language used when two groups of people have no other common language to communicate.However, from my experience, Native Hawaiians and Filipinos have the heaviest accents. You’ll find Pidgin speakers of all ethnicities. Some people call it broken English, and to that I say: go jump off a bridge. A creole language based in part on English used by most " local" residents of Hawaii. Pidgin Pidgin is a creole language spoken by many locals in Hawaii.
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