However, Hawaiian Pidgin is still thought of as lower status than the Hawaiian and English languages. Hawaiian Pidgin was first recognized as a language by the U.S. In the Hawaiian language, it is called ʻōlelo paʻi ʻai – 'pounding-taro language'. Although English and Hawaiian are the two official languages of the state of Hawaiʻi, Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by many Hawaiian residents in everyday conversation and is often used in advertising targeted toward locals in Hawaiʻi. An estimated 600,000 residents of Hawaiʻi speak Hawaiian Pidgin natively and 400,000 speak it as a second language. Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English-based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi.

There is no evidence of a relationship with the slang word for feces.There is a video of Hawaiian Pidgin English on this news report HERE Some authors also suggest the term originated as a 'representation of the act of spitting in sign of contemptuous rejection'. Some sources also suggest the fallacy is an expression that involves 'sneer', 'ridicule', or 'malicious comments about the proponent of the argument'. Other authors describe the fallacy as the act of dismissing an argument 'with the wave of a hand'. Some authors have also described the fallacy as the act of 'ridicul' an argument as though it were 'a myth', and some characterize it as the act of dismissing an argument 'with insults without responding to its substance in any way'.

It has been characterized as a form of a straw man fallacy, where an argument is described as inherently worthless or undeserving of serious attention. Scholars generally characterize the fallacy as a rhetorical device in which the speaker ridicules an argument without responding to the substance of the argument. For other uses, see Poo poo (disambiguation).Ī pooh-pooh (also styled as poo-poo) is a fallacy in informal logic that consists of dismissing an argument as being unworthy of serious consideration.

Poho hawaiian slang