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  • What makes you local?

    I don't know if this belongs here, but I'll try.

    Anyways, what makes you a "local here in Hawaii"? Is it that you were born here, can speak pidgin, know how to "become local"? what?

    I'm a filipino, but I feel that I have all of the cultures here (Japanese, Chinese, Haole, Hawaiian, Samoan, etc.). Plus, I can translate someone who's speaking pidgin to someone who is a tourist.
    How'd I get so white and nerdy?

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    Re: What makes you local?

    I guess all of the above that you mentioned makes you local...or kamaaina. And that's a good thing!!!

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    • #3
      Re: What makes you local?

      Hi,

      I agree with hanapaa. All the above.

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      • #4
        Re: What makes you local?

        If you feel local, I guess you can proclaim yourself local heh heh. no once is really gonna dispute your "localness"

        Of course anyone you who lives in hawai'i, and not a tourist, is techincally "local"

        If you went to high school here and you live here now.
        No way around it.
        das automatic local.


        Enjoy this moment. This moment is your life.

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        • #5
          Re: What makes you local?

          Originally posted by slickvic
          If you went to high school here and you live here now.
          No way around it.
          das automatic local.



          Even if you wen go Punahou???

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          • #6
            Re: What makes you local?

            Originally posted by AuntieNellieKulolo
            Even if you wen go Punahou???

            hahah thats funny!

            yes...even punahou student are techincally local lolz


            Enjoy this moment. This moment is your life.

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            • #7
              Re: What makes you local?

              Yes, even Punahou students are local! My kids graduated from Punahou...they can't speak pidgin like I can but then I can turn it off and on! I mentioned this before but when the kids were young they couldn't understand any pidgin! There is a place for pidgin...local or not!
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              • #8
                Re: What makes you local?

                Originally posted by AuntieNellieKulolo
                Even if you wen go Punahou???


                hahahahahahahaha!! Das one good one!
                Aloha,
                Mokihana

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                • #9
                  Re: What makes you local?

                  To be Loco you must have
                  a certificate from a doctor saying you
                  are unbalanced, mentally unstable,
                  unable to perform even the most
                  rudimentary functions acceptable to
                  society...

                  wot?

                  oh....LOCAL !!

                  chee why neva say so, gunfunnit.

                  If you can speak pidgin
                  and den translate it ...
                  I would say you stay local.

                  "Brandon dem going...
                  translation:Brandon and friends have decided to leave.

                  Brandon dem stay going...
                  translation: Brandon and friends are in the process of leaving.

                  Brandon dem stay gone
                  translation: Brandon and his lolo friends are
                  not in the general area, officer

                  Brandon dem no stay
                  translation: Brandon and unidentified males were here but
                  left when I called 911, Officer Moniz.


                  Brandon dem when stay but dey no stay now..
                  translation: Brandon and his loser buddies left
                  skid marks in the drive way when they heard
                  the sirens.

                  Brandon dem no stay now but stay coming back.."
                  Translation: Brandon and the batu twins are not here now
                  but if you hide behind the mango tree you can catch them
                  when they return to the scene of the crime.


                  If you got that out of the pidgin...you
                  pretty much can say you LOCAL !!!

                  Note: A disclaimer- Brandon and friends are presumed
                  innocent until beated silly by his muddah and olda
                  bruddah Landon.
                  Last edited by Krash Kolohe; July 11, 2004, 08:39 AM.
                  "I was going call 911 ...but I neva know da numbah"

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                  • #10
                    Re: What makes you local?

                    Originally posted by Krash Kolohe

                    If you got that out of the pidgin...you
                    pretty much can say you LOCAL !!!

                    Mokihana dem from ‘Ohana Lanai wen hele to Chreads.

                    Mokihana dem stay heah at Chreads but no stay gone from da Lanai.

                    Lurkah dem no stay now but stay huli lataz. Howevah, Mokihana stay now.
                    Aloha,
                    Mokihana

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                    • #11
                      Re: What makes you local?

                      you know you're local when you think Kau Kau is Hawaiian for eat, but it's really Chinese.

                      Speaking of Chinese, you know you're local when you eat the Manapua without peeling the outer layers. Watch a Chinese person eat their manapua.

                      Local is when you "shaka" someone with your hand as if you're shaking off some hanabutta off the pinky instead of the haolefied way with fingers pointed up.

                      Local is knowing not to eat the green plastic corrigated leaf in your bento

                      Local is knowing that you CAN eat the paper around the Japanese candy

                      And you know you're local is when they stop calling you Haole.
                      Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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                      • #12
                        Re: What makes you local?

                        Local is saying 'shootz' interchangably for thank you & goodbye...

                        How about saying "Ha-va-i'i" insteadof "Hahwhyee", or is that just extra bonus points for the news anchors who always make a special point of emphasising the Hawaiian pronunciation. But its annoying when mainlanders say "HA-WHYEEEE" as 2 intoned syllables yes?

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                        • #13
                          Re: What makes you local?

                          shootz is for teenyboppers! I don't like the hard way of saying Hawaii. It comes across as too much.

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                          • #14
                            Re: What makes you local?

                            Originally posted by hanai
                            Local is saying 'shootz' interchangably for thank you & goodbye...

                            How about saying "Ha-va-i'i" insteadof "Hahwhyee", or is that just extra bonus points for the news anchors who always make a special point of emphasising the Hawaiian pronunciation. But its annoying when mainlanders say "HA-WHYEEEE" as 2 intoned syllables yes?

                            Okay now you brought up the subject of using the "V" or "W" sound when pronouncing words in Hawaiian.

                            Apparently there word "Hawaiian" is not in the Hawaiian vocabulary so it's proper to say it with a "W" sound. But there is the word "Hawaii" in the Hawaiian language so "Hawaii" should be pronounced with the "V" sound.

                            Okay I know there are a few Hawaiian scholars here, what's the official take on W vs V in the Hawaiian language?
                            Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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                            • #15
                              Re: What makes you local?

                              Originally posted by craigwatanabe
                              Okay now you brought up the subject of using the "V" or "W" sound when pronouncing words in Hawaiian. Okay I know there are a few Hawaiian scholars here, what's the official take on W vs V in the Hawaiian language?
                              The language has both. Waikīkī and Wai'anae are pronounced with a "w" sound, but 'Ewa and Hale'iwa are pronounced with a "v" sound.

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