text: Pidgin is fun, easy, and natural to talk on the playground when you’re a kid. You don’t need to learn it in the classroom, because it has so few rules; it’s also easier to learn if formal English is your second language. While it’s a fine exercise to study it at UH, it doesn’t need to be taught in schools, where the rigor of learning English is difficult enough for many; oddly while easy to speak, it’s very difficult to write, let alone spell check on a computer, which may be why it is facing some decline among text addicted youth, who are developing their own slang for that media. If you could only speak Pidgin, or Hawaiian for that matter, your prospects for employment are very limited, and non-existent if you ever leave Hawai‘i. On the other hand, if you can’t at least understand some Pidgin, you aren’t really experiencing Hawai‘i, just visiting it.