<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 12 November 2007 - Volume 03
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Mike Morgan</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Language varieties" 2007.11.11 (08) [E/Hawaii Creole]<br><br></span>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">> Da Kahuna tu. Hi oreddi wen giv yu an inoa `a`ala. Go luk, eh!<br>> <a href="http://www.lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lowlands-l.net/treasures/kahuna.htm
</a><br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tanks, brah! trow party?! ... 'ole leo ... 'cauz get nomo say in da</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
matter? Or cauz rait so seldom. Fack is, me all waha ... get plenty</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">talk, jes' no ackshun.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Da Big Kahuna wen rait:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Yu wen rait:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>> Go fo brok, brah! ...</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> Ai wen trai fo ask yu no laik mek da trensleshen.</span><br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Yeah, I wen savvy da pragmatickz. NO pass on AN' NO pass back! Ke. No</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">like be one nochanic. So like madah always se: I might could chrai.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> Yu kan mo betta, no? So</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
> wot? Yu laik o wot? Chans um, eh!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mo betta? No chrai ho'omalimali me, brah ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> Yu no laik, ke, wotevaz.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Ke. maybe dis ma kuleana. (Chrai also mek da kine JSL an' ISL Wren.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
> Shuuts den, bra. Letaz.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yeah, lataz!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** KEY for the F.O.B.s (fresh-off-the-boat) and malihinis (newcomers)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">... present and future:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
bra = brah = braddah = friend, chap, mate, fellow, ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">chans um = go fo brok = give it a go, do ones best, give it all you've got
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">chrai = trai - try</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
da kine = (a/some) kinda (extremel versatile, but also somewhat vague</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">expression in HCE, very common therefore HCE is also sometimes
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">referred to as Da Kine)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
fack - NOT to be confused with fock!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ho'omalimali = flatter</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ke = okay</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">kuleana = responsibilty / duty but ALSO privilege
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">nochanic = someone who is always saying/thinking "I cannot"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">savvy = undwratnd (very common in many of the world's pidgins and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
creoles ... with Romance roots ... perhasp one of the contributions --</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">along with Portugues Sweet Bread -- of the many Portuguese immigrants
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">to hawaii)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
shuuts den = yeah then</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">lataz = letaz = see you / talk to you later (HCE often has plurals</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">where standard ENglish has singular ... though I DOUBT that this -s is</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the source of the affectionate diminutive discussed in anothe htread</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of this ML!)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">trow party? = an enquiry as to whether there will be celebrations, but</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
ALSO a potentially sarcastic reply of indiference (approximating</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">American English "big whoop!")</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">waha = lazy, all talk and no action</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
wot = what; o wot = or don't you; or isn't it, etc (common HCE tag question)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">wotevaz = watevahs = whatever, it doesn't matter,m I don't care (see
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">shuuts den for the use of HCE plurals)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Language varieties<br><br>An den?<br><br>Kē den, brā. Chōk mahaloz.<br><br></span></font></font><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Mo betta? No chrai ho'omalimali me, brah ...</span><br></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><br>Wot? Mī?! Aznats!<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yū wen rait:<br><br></span></font></font><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Da Big Kahuna wen rait:</span><br></div>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>Yū wen skrū ap egen. <u>Ai</u> wen rait dat</span>
</font></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, brā</span></font></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">!<br><br>L</span></font></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ētaz!<br><br>Reinhard/Ron<br></span></font></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>An den?: (< and then?) Hi! How are things?<br>Aznats!: (< as nuts) Crazy! No way!<br>chōk: (< choke) loads of<br>mahaloz: (< Haw. <i>mahalo</i>) thanks <br>skrū ap: (< screw up) make a mistake<br>wen: (< went) past tense marker
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