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  • What does 'katonk' mean?

    Yes, its a word to describe something, not the sound that cartoons make when they get hit by an object.

    I received that word from my english class, and it was from the local book "Tattoo". The teacher said that no one will find it in any dictionary, so I'm hoping someone would help me out.
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    Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

    Mainland Japanese.....Banana....Yellow on the outside...White on the inside
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    • #3
      Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

      Originally posted by doc1456
      Yes, its a word to describe something, not the sound that cartoons make when they get hit by an object.

      I received that word from my english class, and it was from the local book "Tattoo". The teacher said that no one will find it in any dictionary, so I'm hoping someone would help me out.

      katonk
      (kah tonk)

      Definition: Asian American from the continental US
      Used In A Sentence: Michael stay one katonk. Das why he talk l'dat.
      In English?: Michael is from the mainland so he speaks a little differently than we do.

      http://www.e-hawaii.com/fun/pidgin/s...m.asp?letter=K

      from intermediate skool it was referred as a mainland born japanese american...
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        Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

        Originally posted by pinakboy
        katonk
        (kah tonk)

        Definition: Asian American from the continental US
        Used In A Sentence: Michael stay one katonk. Das why he talk l'dat.
        In English?: Michael is from the mainland so he speaks a little differently than we do.

        http://www.e-hawaii.com/fun/pidgin/s...m.asp?letter=K

        from intermediate skool it was referred as a mainland born japanese american...
        Shoot, I forgot about ehawaii. Thanks!
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        • #5
          Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

          A katonk has trouble understanding pidgin spoken by Hawaii-born Japanese.

          Miulang
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          • #6
            Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

            I always thought it was spelled "kotonk".

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            • #7
              Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

              I think it's "katonk", which is what Mainland born soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought alongside the local Japanese from Hawai'i in the 442nd were called. They have a website: http://www.katonk.com/

              Miulang
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              • #8
                Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                Yeah, that's how da kotonks spell um.

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                • #9
                  Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                  but it does reference a sound, supposedly the sound of the mainland japanese head when it hits the wall in a fight with the local japanese I wonder who exactly first coined the phrase, was it born in the internment camps or the 442nd or prior to.
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                    Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                    Originally posted by poi cocktail :)
                    but it does reference a sound, supposedly the sound of the mainland japanese head when it hits the wall in a fight with the local japanese I wonder who exactly first coined the phrase, was it born in the internment camps or the 442nd or prior to.
                    The sound when a mainland Japanese head hits a wall or the floor is "kotonk." If they were wearing a helmet at the time, then it's "katonk."
                    Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū ā ē ī ō ū -- Just a little something to "cut and paste."

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                    • #11
                      Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                      Of course!

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                      • #12
                        Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                        And the katonks called Hawaiian Japanese Americans "Buddhaheads" (started out as a slang: "buta" head--or pigheaded, because I guess the local Japanese Americans didn't like taking orders very much)

                        Miulang
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                        • #13
                          Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                          OK, now how about "bobura"? That's another label that gets tossed around along with "buddha-head" and "kotonk", but I have to admit that I am a little hazy on exactly who it's supposed to apply to. Is that a sign that they're all getting old fashioned and going out of use?

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                            Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                            Apparently, "bobora" was used for an FOB Japanese. "Kibei" was a Japanese American who was schooled in Japan.

                            Miulang
                            Last edited by Miulang; August 12, 2005, 03:16 PM.
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                              Re: What does 'katonk' mean?

                              Originally posted by Glen Miyashiro
                              OK, now how about "bobura"? That's another label that gets tossed around along with "buddha-head" and "kotonk", but I have to admit that I am a little hazy on exactly who it's supposed to apply to. Is that a sign that they're all getting old fashioned and going out of use?
                              I've never heard that one, but its uh, hearkening up memories of my Vovo who, when she called you a babooz, she was calling you stupid.

                              </crosses self, God Blaaass her soul>

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