You compliment someone by calling them akamai.ġ1. “That’s not your kuleana”…can mean that is not your problem or mind your own business depending on tone of voice.ĩ. All of the computer “wikis” are based on the Hawaiian word including “Wikipedia.”Ĩ. “Ok, get it done wiki-wiki.” Wiki once means fast and twice means super fast. Wiki-wiki just sounds so cool but people don’t really use it…try using it jokingly to tell someone to hurry up. “Did you know there is a puka in your shirt?” You can also fill in the pukas on a document or fix the pukas in your sail.ħ.
“I don’t enjoy working with Sally she’s so high maka maka.”Ħ. High maka maka is a great expression and difficult to translate. Hele on means get out of here/move along. Pau hana hana is when you are off for Aloha Friday (TGIF) afternoon and ready for a beer.Ĥ. “When will the construction be pau?” Ask your child if they are pau with their meal. You can easily throw this one in everyday transactions. If you are complimenting something and can’t think of a proper superlative, or to replace the tired out “awesome,” just call it “da kine.”ģ. Da kine: If you can’t think of the word, da kine is a useful substitute. “We’re going to the other side of the island today, want to come holo-holo with us?”Ģ. When in Hawaii, using a few Hawaiian and Pidgin expressions shows respect for our culture and keeps the language alive while spicing up the vocabulary…here are a few of my favorites along with some tips:ĭouble Shaka Mixed Plate Vocabulary Wordsġ. I recommend this to anyone who wants to watch it, regardless of the reason.Hawaii 20 Easy Ways to Speak Mo’ Bettah Pidgin Today There is crude material in this, and some offensive stuff, much of it from the flick itself, in those portions of it that is in this.
The footage is well-shot, the majority of the time, and this does a nice job of avoiding being as disorienting as swiftly going back and forth between different guys and gals, and one can imagine that almost all of them have never been on camera for something professional before. I appreciate the mostly straight approach, and hey, a couple of the people in this are charming and/or cool to listen to. Thankfully, its running time is a mere 5 minutes. Apart from that, this is obviously kind of useless. This is informational enough, if you care about the expressions, and if not, it can be reasonably entertaining. It consists of locals explaining various words in Pidgin, one of the languages/dialects in Hawaii, inter-cut with appropriate clips from the movie. This is one of the three featurettes on the DVD of 50 First Dates, and one of the two that have their own individual pages here on the site.
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