The result was the decimation of Hawaiian speaking communities coupled with low self esteem among Hawaiian speakers and the end of the transmittal of cultural and esoteric knowledge embedded in the language." GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Official language of Hawaiʻi INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Numerous language immersion programs OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY This is how Kaua‘i residents ended up becoming English/Pidgin monoglots in the 20th century, as opposed to being multilingual, and the same thing is happening among the Ni‘ihau community today." SPEAKER ATTITUDE "A stigma persisted in the 20th century in which government and society looked down upon the Hawaiian language, its speakers, its value, and its contribution to Hawai‘i’s unique culture. Each choice to speak Pidgin or English over Hawaiian contributes to the destruction of the community of native speakers. However, a significant number of children and young adults in the community are preferring to speak Pidgin or English over Hawaiian, and as these people grow up and become parents, they often prefer to speak English to their children, thus severing the linguistic ties that they were privileged to grow up with.
Although the churches and schools that serve the Ni‘ihau community have become the only venues left where Ni‘ihau speakers gather, families still speak the language at home, especially on Ni‘ihau. I recommend this to anyone who wants to watch it, regardless of the reason."The Hawaiian known among native speakers is extremely endangered and under pressure from the overwhelming English-speaking communities of Kaua‘i County to conform to English and Pidgin. There is crude material in this, and some offensive stuff, much of it from the flick itself, in those portions of it that is in this. The footage is well-shot, the majority of the time, and this does a nice job of avoiding being as disorienting as swiftly going back and forth between different guys and gals, and one can imagine that almost all of them have never been on camera for something professional before. I appreciate the mostly straight approach, and hey, a couple of the people in this are charming and/or cool to listen to. Thankfully, its running time is a mere 5 minutes.
Apart from that, this is obviously kind of useless. This is informational enough, if you care about the expressions, and if not, it can be reasonably entertaining. It consists of locals explaining various words in Pidgin, one of the languages/dialects in Hawaii, inter-cut with appropriate clips from the movie. This is one of the three featurettes on the DVD of 50 First Dates, and one of the two that have their own individual pages here on the site.
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