And now in a newly designed and bigger size, da bestest! by Ken Sakata, Douglas Simonson REVIEWS: “If you've been around the islands for a while you must have run into Peppo’s Pidgin to Da Max 1981, its sequel Peppo’s Pidgin to Da Max Hana Hou 1992, and the companion volume Hawaii to Da Max 1992.
In 1983 there was a television show by the same name, based on the book.Pidgin To Da Max Hana Hou has all new words and cartoons. The authors of Pidgin to Da Max are not originally from Hawaii, and Simonson admits to not speaking Pidgin all that well. Haole is another word covered in the book. The dictionary then turns around and uses "da kine" (often a notoriously difficult word for non-Pidgin speakers to understand) in some of the definitions of other words. What would we do without DA KINE? "Ey, I no can da kine if you no like da kine, too!"
You can use it anywhere, anytime, anyhow. There is an additional volume, titled Pidgin to Da Max: Hana Hou, which follows the first book.Īs an example of an entry for which the dictionary may be of little help to outsiders, consider the definition of the word da kine:ĭa kine ( da KINE) Da kine is the keystone of pidgin. As such, it is a relatively popular book in Hawaii, and sold 25,000 copies in its first month in print.īy March 1982, it had sold 50,000 copies. Rather, the book is intended to be a humorous introspective for Hawaii residents about the language many of them speak on a day-to-day basis. With the definitions of most of the words and phrases also given in Pidgin, the book is not clearly intended to be used as a Pidgin-English dictionary, although a reader unfamiliar with the dialect would likely understand most of the entries from context and the illustrations. Pidgin to Da Max (full title: Peppo's Pidgin to Da Max) is a humorous illustrated dictionary of Hawaiian Pidgin words and phrases, published in December 1981, by Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki, and Ken Sakata.
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