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So, being from Hawaii, I get a lot of crap about the most famous Hawaiian word in the history of ever. It seems like we have a nice mix of peeps on these boards, so I thought I'd ask the question. Jokes are welcome but I'd also like some serious answers.
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Aloha. That's what they say on Hawaii, of course. It means both 'hello' and 'goodbye'. Which just goes to show if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going...
Also, it starts off one of my favourite songs: Why Don't They Come Back To Dunoon? - The Humblebums.
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I, um, might have read some of the courses on learning Klingon at the Klingon Language Institute.
tlhIngan Hol jIghoj!
I've always understood Aloha to mean "hello," "goodbye," and "love." In fact, the Hawaiian version of "Jesus Loves Me" sung in my grandmother's church (she lives on Oahu) uses aloha for love.
Oh, and while "kree" is multipurpose like "aloha," I'm pretty sure those first primes aren't telling the other Jaffa how much they love them.
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quote:Oh, and while "kree" is multipurpose like "aloha," I'm pretty sure those first primes aren't telling the other Jaffa how much they love them.
*desperately tries to stifle laughter so as not to wake the kinder*
I've been known to shout "Kree!" When my daughter starts to run across the parking lot and I need her attention... I'm afraid she's going to grow up thinking it's a real word...
As for "aloha", I've heard it as "hello", "goodbye" (more like "so long" than a formal goodbye), a benediction of peace and love the way some people use "shalom", and, strangely, "it's all cool, we're good".
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quote:Oh, and while "kree" is multipurpose like "aloha," I'm pretty sure those first primes aren't telling the other Jaffa how much they love them.
*doesn't bother to stifle laughter* Lovely!
quote:I've been known to shout "Kree!" When my daughter starts to run across the parking lot and I need her attention... I'm afraid she's going to grow up thinking it's a real word...
What, it isn't a real word?
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Heh...that would make for an interesting new rite of ascension. "You're going to do WHAT with that bat'leth?!"
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Actually I thought Aloha meant, "Here, take these cheap smelly flowers and give me all your money you silly pale tourist."
Face it, those Hawaians are so cheap, they only use half the alphabet, forcing their words to do double or triple duty. Posts: 11895 | Registered: Apr 2002
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quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: Actually I thought Aloha meant, "Here, take these cheap smelly flowers and give me all your money you silly pale tourist."
Face it, those Hawaians are so cheap, they only use half the alphabet, forcing their words to do double or triple duty.
Hey, as long as you silly pale tourists keep ponying up the money, why not?! It costs a lot of money to support the verdant and sun-splashed dreams of many.
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quote:Originally posted by Dagonee: It means I get to dump a bunch of 1 point tiles on someone else's H.
Dag, you a Scrabble junkie too? If you're looking for a place to play, the Internet Scrabble Club is pretty neat. That's where I hang out. ISC. I'm Dakoit on there. I'm not as obsessive now as I used to be, therefore I'm not as good, but I still love to play.
I personally assosciate "Aloha" with the sun. So if you say "Aloha" to me I start looking for the sunburn.
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I associate "aloha" with some person saying how mainlanders have no aloha spirit. Usually I disagree with this person and tell them to suck it up. I'll take the mainland attitude over the fake nice, okay-let's-hug-and-kiss-on-the-cheek one the prevails at home.
(Or it could just be that I have personal space issues and don't understand the need to hug and kiss people every time you run into them.)
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quote:you don't need to say "Aloha" back, but at least tip them for trying [Wink] .
Trying do what?
Oh, and "mr_porteiro_head" is much too long to type out every time you want to address me. Feel free to call me Porteiro. Posts: 16551 | Registered: Feb 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Celaeno: I associate "aloha" with some person saying how mainlanders have no aloha spirit. Usually I disagree with this person and tell them to suck it up. I'll take the mainland attitude over the fake nice, okay-let's-hug-and-kiss-on-the-cheek one the prevails at home.
(Or it could just be that I have personal space issues and don't understand the need to hug and kiss people every time you run into them.)
If that's what aloha means, then I definitely don't have any.
quote:Originally posted by Celaeno: I associate "aloha" with some person saying how mainlanders have no aloha spirit. Usually I disagree with this person and tell them to suck it up. I'll take the mainland attitude over the fake nice, okay-let's-hug-and-kiss-on-the-cheek one the prevails at home.
(Or it could just be that I have personal space issues and don't understand the need to hug and kiss people every time you run into them.)
If that's what aloha means, then I definitely don't have any.
:shudder:
It's still better than infectious diarrhea, which is what it sometimes means at work.
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quote:It's still better than infectious diarrhea, which is what it sometimes means at work.
I have so little aloha that I actually had to think about which I would find worse -- infectious diarreah or being kissed and hugged every time I saw people.
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quote:Originally posted by Celaeno: I associate "aloha" with some person saying how mainlanders have no aloha spirit. Usually I disagree with this person and tell them to suck it up. I'll take the mainland attitude over the fake nice, okay-let's-hug-and-kiss-on-the-cheek one the prevails at home.
(Or it could just be that I have personal space issues and don't understand the need to hug and kiss people every time you run into them.)
Man, I really miss that actually. Especially in Japan, personal contact is pretty much not done here. I understand that it's a cultural thing, but it's really nice.
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quote:Man, I really miss that actually. Especially in Japan, personal contact is pretty much not done here. I understand that it's a cultural thing, but it's really nice.
I think this is one of those issues where 99% of the time people prefer what they grew up with.
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It took me a little while to get used to the hugging and kissing here, but I like it now. I went to Idaho in June and ran into a woman I used to know about an hour after I got off the plane (we had stopped for lunch in Layton, UT). Without even thinking about it, I hugged her. I think I scared her to death, but it didn't even occur to me at the time that it might be unusual to her.
Now it kind of creeps me out when I go to church on the mainland and no one hugs me or says aloha.
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I am not very casually physically affectionate with even my wife, and when people too physiclly affectionate with me, I feel as though they are presuming an intimacy with me that they do not have.
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So I guess ... "Aloha" means "hello", and "goodbye", and some sort of unspecifically identified "spirit of the islands" involving love and acceptance and laid-back-ness (or possibly, "infectious disease").
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quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: I am not very casually physically affectionate with even my wife, and when people too physiclly affectionate with me, I feel as though they are presuming an intimacy with me that they do not have.
I can definitely see your point on that one. The only way I can think of to describe it would be to say that it's a very human feeling. Very warm and affectionate. Of course, that's not necessarily the intent of the embrace, but that's how I'd conceptualize the feeling. I am a very casually affectionate person, and I do believe that it's a product of the way I grew up.
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I believe you are human too. I also believe you probably grew up in a society that taught you to withold your affection and "be a man". But I could be wrong.
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If I'm affectionate with you, then you are ridiculously special.
edited to add: What about me then, Kaminari? I grew up in Waipio Gentry, and I'm female. My parents are actually pretty affectionate and my siblings definitely are. I'm the odd one out. Explain me.
Some people just don't like being affectionate. While it certainly has something to do with upbringing, that can't be even close to all of it.
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