Did all the vowels make your throat ache as well? I don't know why mine does, but truely, after forcing three or four syllibles to link with vowels, by throat really DOES ache.Mikey wrote:Wow. You guys are the only Bond fans I've ever heard who didn't want to have George Lazenby drawn and quartered. Personally, I thought he was a hack Moore impersonator, at best.
Mark - I made a VERY short term study of Hawai'ian when I was there. Linguistics fascinates me, and the diversion of Hawai'ian from Polynesian is very interesting.
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They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Not really, but I was only there for 8 days and speaking English most of the time.Mark wrote:Did all the vowels make your throat ache as well? I don't know why mine does, but truely, after forcing three or four syllibles to link with vowels, by throat really DOES ache.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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You didn't even trip up on hu'mu'hu'mu'nu'ku'nu'ku'apu'ah'ah?
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Is that a real word?
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I'll stick to my English thank you.
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I think it's Hawaiian for "Damned Tourists." 
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It's the name of our state fish. See what I mean about all of the vowels? Names are pretty rough too. Two of the most famous Hawaiian historical figures are........
King Kamehameha
and
Queen Liliokalani
I had trouble with both of them. And when I first moved here, didn't I just love the "Likelike highway" I asked directions once, and pronounced it as it is spelled, and got laughed at. It's acutally pronounced lee-kay lee-kay
Damned confusing if you ask me.
King Kamehameha
and
Queen Liliokalani
I had trouble with both of them. And when I first moved here, didn't I just love the "Likelike highway" I asked directions once, and pronounced it as it is spelled, and got laughed at. It's acutally pronounced lee-kay lee-kay
Damned confusing if you ask me.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Hey, I know who they are. 
And now I remember the fish... in Picard's ready-room.
And now I remember the fish... in Picard's ready-room.
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They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Man, Hawaiian sounds almost as screwy when it comes to pronunciation as Irish.
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w is pronounced v............most i's are pronounced as e's.........and the broken vowels kill me. Another example...Ka'au'manu street. The vowels just seem to fight each other. But then there are only 11 letters in the Hawaiian alphebet.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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I take it the "street" part isn't Hawaiian.
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Correct. Thus the only thing I can easily say 
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Picard's fish was a lionfish, IIRC. The humuhumunukunukuapua'a is a reef triggerfish.
No, I learned that word very carefully because I became so obsessed with it. Hawai'ian uses a lot of repetition for emphasis - in a weird conincidence the word like (pronounced "lee-kay") means "similar" - the word for "identical" is simply likelike. The name of the fish above comes from a couple of words denoting "hog," and "grunting," I think, because of the shape fo the fish's snout and the sound it makes when removed from the water.
The trick I've found is to remember where the language comes from. The apostrophe represents a glottal stop, which is softened from the "k" phoneme of the original Polynesian, and the "k" in Hawai'ian descends from the Polynesian "t." The vowels generally only have one pronunciation each, so you don't have to worry too much about long or short sounds.
No, I learned that word very carefully because I became so obsessed with it. Hawai'ian uses a lot of repetition for emphasis - in a weird conincidence the word like (pronounced "lee-kay") means "similar" - the word for "identical" is simply likelike. The name of the fish above comes from a couple of words denoting "hog," and "grunting," I think, because of the shape fo the fish's snout and the sound it makes when removed from the water.
The trick I've found is to remember where the language comes from. The apostrophe represents a glottal stop, which is softened from the "k" phoneme of the original Polynesian, and the "k" in Hawai'ian descends from the Polynesian "t." The vowels generally only have one pronunciation each, so you don't have to worry too much about long or short sounds.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Do you speak Klingon, Mikey?
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