Anyone in Honolulu, or on Oahu?

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

Seems to me there are inhabitants of a small Island in the North Atlantic who call the Atlantic Ocean "The Pond"

yep the American Island is one BIG island alrighty ....

[wodin]

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

the entire island chain being named Hawai'i (ok, so I'm exaggerating...)

You're not exagerating much Grace, It may not be named Hawai`i but is is named the Hawai`ian Archipelago.

Notice the apostrophe in Hawai`i is backwards, that is actually a letter in the Hawaiian language called the ʻ`okina sometimes called the "glottal stop" and is pronounce as a catching of the breath. That is how some Hawai`ian words can have no consonants. For instance the town I live in is named Aiea or `Aiea. The `okina serves as the consonant.

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by wodin

You're not exagerating much Grace, It may not be named Hawai`i but is is named the Hawai`ian Archipelago.

Notice the apostrophe in Hawai`i is backwards, that is actually a letter in the Hawaiian language called the ʻ`okina sometimes called the "glottal stop" and is pronounce as a catching of the breath. That is how some Hawai`ian words can have no consonants. For instance the town I live in is named Aiea or `Aiea. The `okina serves as the consonant.

Learned something n`ew! (And that my keyboard does have that accent.)

[Wetdogeared]

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[pshrynk]

*oblated*

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

yep the American Island is one BIG island alrighty ....

Are they talking about Cuba? Or as they like to call it on TV, "Kew-buh?"

[rogue_ronin]

Awesome responses!

I'm just back on Oahu, in Hawaii, after two years in Thailand. Not local born, just lived for 4 years prior to Thailand (Master's of Fine Arts at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.)

Wanted to see if there were enough folks for a meetup, or maybe just coffee-klatsch. At which, I would drink tea.

I literally just found a place to live, after a week on the island. Honolulu has the hardest housing ever, especially after Thailand, where it is ridiculously easy and inexpensive.

You will laugh at me, but I was so busy with my MFA that I haven't yet visited the Big Island, or Maui. But I will, promise.

So, anyhow, that makes three of us, right? On two islands!



m a r

[Alexander Turcic]

A meetup in Hawaii? What a teasssssssse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wodin]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

Awesome responses!

I'm just back on Oahu, in Hawaii, after two years in Thailand. Not local born, just lived for 4 years prior to Thailand (Master's of Fine Arts at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.)

Wanted to see if there were enough folks for a meetup, or maybe just coffee-klatsch. At which, I would drink tea.

I literally just found a place to live, after a week on the island. Honolulu has the hardest housing ever, especially after Thailand, where it is ridiculously easy and inexpensive.

You will laugh at me, but I was so busy with my MFA that I haven't yet visited the Big Island, or Maui. But I will, promise.

So, anyhow, that makes three of us, right? On two islands!



m a r

Yup, to the best of my knowledge.

Oh yeah, Aloha!

[rogue_ronin]

Aloha, mahalo, and I'm out of Hawaiian.

Well... loco moco, wahine and 'hey, bra!'

m a r

[GraceKrispy]

Hulo, hulo! Aia 3 kanaka ma Hawai'i- he mea kupaianaha

Welcome to the cool club

incidentally, I don't stick the 'okina into "Hawaiian" because that's not a Hawaiian word, it's an English version of a Hawaiian concept. Hawaiian words never end in a consonant, and never have two consonants next to one another. An the 'okina is a consonant. 13 letters- 5 vowels, 8 consonants. In Hawaiian, you'd just stick the word "Hawai'i" on the back as a modifier. Like Hawaiian flag would be "hae Hawai'i."

And there ends the lesson for the day.

[rogue_ronin]

Thanks. Somewhere I have mp3s for learning Hawaiian. Now that I'm back (and I hope to stay) I expect that I'll learn as much as I can. If things settle in well, I'll take some classes, too.

Thanks for the welcome, I feel cool. Except for the sunburn... (I turned that wonderful shade of white-blue that fluorescent lights enhance while in Thailand. Big cultural bias to avoid the sun.)

m a r

[pshrynk]

Happy fiftieth year of being the fiftieth state, Hawai`i!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

A meetup in Hawaii? What a teasssssssse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

again I ask - send me the airfare and I'll be there .....

[wodin]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

again I ask - send me the airfare and I'll be there .....

Here you go

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