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A retired professor translated the New Testament into Pidgin under the title 'Da Jesus Book.'

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A retired professor translated the New Testament into Pidgin under the title 'Da Jesus Book.'

Joseph Grimes, a retired linguistics professor at Cornell University worked for 12 years with 26 pidgin speakers in translating the New Testament into Hawaiian Pidgin.

When it was finally published in 2000, it created some controversy. Critics tried to ban the book as an example of slang and a degraded form of English. Check out the most famous Bible verse: John 3:16:

'God wen get so plenny love an aloha fo da peopo inside da world, dat he wen send me, his one an ony Boy, so dat everybody dat trus me no get cut off from God, but get da real kine life dat stay to da max fovea.'

 

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