Re: Post that pidgin vernacular from your island!
The first time my husband met my 'ohana was in Vegas (I know, how shocking). Anyway, my tutu was telling my Uncle to go get pupu so we could all sit in the hotel room and talk story. Uncle said, "You wan tree kine pupu yeah?"
He then noticed my husband's very confused face, started to laugh and said, "You think we go eat pupu li dog poopoo?" My husband laughed and said, "I'm just one confused haoleboy, you got to explain things to me." Da 'ohana uses haoleboy as a term of endearment and he likes his title. I felt bad that I had forgot to tell him what pupus were. Later he said he noticed that most of us said tree for the number three. He loves local kine accents.
The first time my husband met my 'ohana was in Vegas (I know, how shocking). Anyway, my tutu was telling my Uncle to go get pupu so we could all sit in the hotel room and talk story. Uncle said, "You wan tree kine pupu yeah?"
He then noticed my husband's very confused face, started to laugh and said, "You think we go eat pupu li dog poopoo?" My husband laughed and said, "I'm just one confused haoleboy, you got to explain things to me." Da 'ohana uses haoleboy as a term of endearment and he likes his title. I felt bad that I had forgot to tell him what pupus were. Later he said he noticed that most of us said tree for the number three. He loves local kine accents.
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