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Japaniizu Beesubooru, Pitchingu

More creative Japanese baseball terms of English origin: Pitching Terms

auto koosu ‘a pitch over the outside part of the plate’

in koosu ‘a pitch over the inside part the plate’

insura (< “inside slider”) ‘a slider over the inside part of the plate’

uinningu shotto ‘a pitcher’s best (“winning”) pitch’

eesu ‘ace’ (the team’s best pitcher)

oobaa suroo ‘overarm throw’

kaabu ‘curve ball’

kuikku mooshyon ‘quick throw to first base’

kontorooru ‘(pitcher’s) ball control’

shuuto ‘a pitch that shoots toward the inside corner of the plate’

suraidaa ‘slider’

supeedo booru ‘fastball’

cheenji ‘change up’

noo kon ‘lack of control’

nakkuru ‘knuckle ball’

pasu booru ‘passed ball’

battengu pitchaa ‘batting practice pitcher’

fuoa booru ‘a walk’

fuoku ‘fork ball’

furu kaunto ‘full count’ (= tsuu endo suree)

booru ‘pitch outside the strike zone; also, the pitch itself’

ririifu ‘relief pitcher, bullpen’

waindoappu ‘windup’

SOURCE: A Slightly Askew Glossary of Japanese Baseball Terms by professional translator Steven P. Venti

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Da Hawaii Pidgin Bible

Who Make Da Pidgin Bible?

From 1987, get 26 local peopo dat help fo make da Pidgin Bible. Dey da Pidgin Bible Translation Group. Dey all volunteer peopo dat stay talk Pidgin from small kid time. Dey give couple hour every week fo translate. Dey Christian peopo dat go diffren churches, but dey all working togedda…. An dey awready write 40% a Da Befo Jesus Book, but gotta check um plenny so gotta wait.

Some a dem live odda place now, some a dem get job dat no let um get time fo translate, an Auntie Rachel Silva, she wen mahke awready 1994. March 2000, dey pau make Da Jesus Book. June 2001, get um back from da printa guys. Five translata guys stay working awready fo make Da Befo Jesus Book.

Wat Da Bible Say Bout Important Stuffs?

Jesus say, “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 kine life dat stay to da max foeva.” (John 3:16)

Tink hard bout wat I telling you. Cuz da Boss, he goin make shua you undastan everyting I say. So tink plenny bout Jesus, da Spesho Guy God Wen Send. He da One dat wen come from King David ohana. God wen make him come back alive, afta he wen mahke. An dass da Good Kine Stuff From God dat I stay telling everybody. (Letta Numba 2 Fo Timoty 2:7-8)

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