N.L, Shaka is a pidgin word for a gesture where you close your fist and stick out the thumb and pinky.
Multilingual Hawaiʻi
44147
United States
Honolulu
N.L, Howzit is pidgin for how is it
Multilingual Hawaiʻi
44149
United States
Honolulu
Picture took in Ben Franklin Crafts
Multilingual Hawaiʻi
44250
United States
Columbus
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44251
United States
Columbus
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44252
United States
Columbus
Restaurant sign on building
44253
Germany
Chorin
ÖKODORF BRODOWIN, ökologische Litfasssäule
44254
United States
Columbus
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44255
Austria
Wien
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44256
United Kingdom
Liverpool
Memorial plaque to the Irish Famine/Starvation (1845-1853) that led over 1 million people Irish people setting sail from Liverpool to find a new life overseas.
44257
Luxembourg
Mamer
#ckap
44258
Deutschland
Hamburg
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44259
Deutschland
Hamburg
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44260
Netherlands
Grou
#sichtberens #frysk
44261
Austria
Wien
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44269
Deutschland
Essen
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45871
United States
Haleiwa
(SP) (Check in #2) this is a photo of a semi-permanent bumper sticker (taken with permission) in the domain of transportation. It’s main audience is Locals and speakers of Pidgin because “mo bettah” is likely not a phrase that non-Locals will be too familiar with. It is likely meant to show off the car owner’s pride of being from/having visited Molokai and desire to express Molokai’s excellence/superiority over other islands
Multilingual Hawaiʻi
45951
Austria
Eckartsau
Bei einer Wanderung in den Herbstferien entdeckt. &Hochdeutsch
IamDiÖ
45869
United States
Honolulu
(SP) (Check in #2) This a framed semi-permanent poster visible on entrance to a student market/convenience store domain. The majority of this poster is in English, likely so that students from anywhere, even the mainland or other countries, can understand its main message easily. However, the word “Shaka” and the Shaka hand sign take up large section of the post, encouraging shoppers to look for the Shaka to know you’re buying from local sources. An iconic Pidgin word/symbol is used here to drive home the fact that circulating money back to Locals is very important, and this message would have been less impactful if they had used a non-Pidgin word, since Pidgin is often considered “the language of Locals”.
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