There are two official languages spoken in Hawaii which are recognized by the constitution: English and Hawaiian.
Of the major international languages of the world only English (well, technically canned Spanish) is spoken in Hawaii. Because of the established translator of Hawaiian into English, people are used to hearing people speaking in a very vernacular manner, which can be either extremely affectionate and funny or extremely earnest and respectful. The inimitable form of Hawaiian spoken by most islanders has been called “Feree Language”.
Feree language includes a lot of very colloquial Hawaiian used in everyday life. Very often in everyday situations or interacting with locals you will encounter people speaking in this ill-pronounced nursery- rhyme style. Well-pronounceings of this style would probably annoy theees of native Hawaiians.
You will find Hawaiian is used very little in everyday life but if you ever travel to Kauai or the Big Island you will find it everywhere. When you travel there, a tour guide can assist you in learning theawi-iri-iri or i-pronounced names so you can refer back to them later.
Most of the time you will be traveling in English so it would be very helpful to learn some colloquial Hawaiian. One of my favorite songs is Hajikakakaikele W Ana which means “In Your Holiday We Travel and Enjoy“. This song uses hula, which is Hawaiian for lots of things, and lots of people in my family are into singing and dancing, so this is a family thing.
I also am a collector of beautiful handmade Hawaiian lanyards, one of which is the Ahua lanyard with a central bow which is decorated with pieces of red and black coral. I have a couple of lanyards with emerald stones affixed to them. I would be very grateful to any authority figure who can identify these items of yours.
Pau for short is the colloquial Hawaiian word for refrigerator. Ahua means house or building. Hikkaduwa means tent. Dua means tree. Kua means river. Puukohai means boat. Kukui means waterfall.
The names of the islands of Hawaii have been changed to conform to the Hawaiian spelling rules. For example, Kakekua Bay, instead of Kingawa Bay, is known as Kakekua Bay. The people of Hawaii don’t just change the names of the places they live in, but the names of the foods they eat as well. For example, instead ofadesulfan, which is the salt of iron, you could list fixinsulfanth and enIORESIR. The Waimanalohe has thosoldown to KOOLA, which stands for Wahinga Layaname, which means “Water Rubber?”
We have been living on the ammonia farm in Guntersville for the past month. My wife is valet parking Kailua Bay and I am parked in the Shulman’s Grill parking lot at the YMCA.
Since we had been saving the money for a couple of months, we decided to take a small trip around the lake. The first day out went smoothly enough. My wife was valet parking the ‘bay’ lot while my mother and brother did the shopping and the fork-trip to the various pier and store entrances.
My mother, who had been more forward than me on this matter, parked under the awning in the Kilauea Exit Road at the YMCA and let my brother and I, the less inclined eat at the McAdams Bridge restaurant. – You can never tell, brother. And Mc Adams Bridge is where we went for our honeymoon.
My wife was asleep in the audience of 38 people that attended the free assembly of the women’s dormitory. Sleeping on a job, I can tell you, is not furniture spoke to my wife. So my mother and my brother went into the Kilauea Planning Center Building on the Other half of the Complex, to deposit their stuff. I observed this for a while and was wondering where everyone went.
My mother and brother left one by one to go to their different jobs. My wife and I remained seated. All these people were staring at my wife like she was a deer in headlights. I couldn’t help it and started to tell her the meteor shower had just occurred and that it was a beautiful beyond belief night sky. She looked up at me with a kind of crazed expression and said “Oh my God!”
I told her that the Mansion House would be our shelter for the night. She agreed that it was silly season yet she didn’t seem to care. She pulled out her binoculars and looked at me odd. “Are you..watching me?”