Pidgin To Da Max is for fun. We took a lot of pidgin words and put them down the way we use them, the way we hear them, and had fun with it. We hope you have fun with it, too.

We also want you to know that we have great reverence for pidgin, because in some ways it's like the heartbeat of Hawaii. When local people get together and relax, they talk pidgin. It comes from the heart.

Putting pidgin into written form wasn't easy. Probably you'll find things you would have written down differently. That's okay, because there are as many variations of pidgin as there are people. We did our best to make it as clear as possible —and the picture help.

We hope no one is insulted by any of the definitions or cartoons in Pidgin To Da Max. We don't want to insult anybody— but we kidded everybody!

We hope our love of Hawaii and of pidgin comes through, because that's why we put this book together —to give something back to the people, and the land, that have given so much to us.