Occasionally, when they were having a big sale or short-handed, Mom used to cashier. My sister and I waved at ourselves in the mirrors like idiots every time we walked in. Mom was an accountant, usually in her office upstairs and behind the one-way mirrors that ringed the back of the store and looked out at the shoppers below. When I was a kid, my mom used to work for Longs Drug, a store with a pharmacy and a little bit of everything from snacks and groceries to cosmetics and fishing lures. Tonouchi is available in paperback from Amazon.įrom the first page, I felt like I was back on Maui. Living Pidgin: Contemplations on Pidgin Culture by Lee A. And as any Hawaiian islander will tell you, when it comes from the heart, it’s in Pidgin. I’m passionate about islanders telling their own stories in their own words. Like Lee, I learned early on that Pidgin speakers were more defined by perceptions of what they couldn’t do than the realities of what was possible. Don’t let the size of this book fool you-the thoughts and ideas run wide and deep in this collection of talks and concrete poems. Tonouchi and published by Tinfish Press is a scholarly dive into what makes a language, who are its guardians and keepers, and how language is identity. Living Pidgin: Contemplations on Pidgin Cultureby Lee A. In this short treatise derived from his real world experiences in mastering and teaching English in Hawaii, Lee Tonouchi-Da Pidgin Guerrilla-demonstrates that not only Pidgin speakers CAN, they CAN with eloquence, intellectual rigor, and knuckles bruised in schoolyard scraps, call out the biases endemic in anti-Pidgin rhetoric and the cultural erasure politics of the myth of Standard English.īut da buggah wen tell ‘em more bettah in Pidgin, yeah? More easy for unnastand without all da haolified words and phrases. Tonouchi, “People BORN Pidgin, gotta be free for LIVE Pidgin.”
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