Many of these stories take you back to a simpler time in the islands when getting toadshet on your skin gave you warts along with other ooh-gee stuff and five cents worth of kakimochi bought your innocence so long as it was the kind with nori and plenny shoyu on top. Lum at the Hawaiian Book & Music Festival–and consider it a cherished part of my book collection.ĭarrell Lum writes about what it is like to live and grow up locally in Hawaii. I was lucky enough to pick up an autographed copy recently from Mr. Pass On, No Pass Back! was originally published in 1990 by Bamboo Ridge Press, the local book publishing company co-founded by Darrell Lum in 1978. Lum is well known for providing a prominent voice to the art of Hawaii’s Pidgin English storytelling, and most of the short stories in this book are told in this narrative style. The best – and funniest – book about Hawaiian pidgin is called Pidgin To Da Max and is available in bookstores throughout Hawaii and from .Ī final word of advice: Until you really know your way around and until you get both the context and the inflections exactly right, leave the pidgin to the “locals” … udduhwise by-m-by one local guy going bus’ you up.Pass On, No Pass Back! is the award-winning collection of nine short stories by local author Darrell H.Y.
Or better yet: Gawge Bush? Fo’ grade, da buggah get one beeg puka! Or even: My zip code is nine-six-seven-puka-eight. Or: I drove around the block three times before I found a puka.
Or: I had to go to the dentist because I had a puka. One of the more flexible of our pidgin words is puka (pronounced POO-kuh) which is the Hawaiian word for “hole” … as in the damn dog dug a puka right in the middle of our back yard.īut also: the County guys is patching a big puka in the road. If something was a total failure, say it was a bus’ egg. If mama’s teriyaki chicken is really good, tell her it broke da mouth. If a teenager wants to go out for a burger he’ll say You like grind? You meet another local on the street, you say, Howzit? It borrows from Hawaiian and Japanese and Chinese and from the two main Filipino dialects, not to mention some delightful twists given to recognizable English words. Some use it most of the time, others whenever the mood strikes, but it’s colorful and highly descriptive … and a great deal of fun. Visitors to Hawaii are immediately aware of the incredible natural beauty of these islands and that awareness is enhanced the more they travel around this place.īut to me, one of the really interesting and more enjoyable things about Hawaii is the pidgin English that locals use when speaking informally among themselves.
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