New Tiki Mag piece by Duke Carter - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Apr 27, 2009 2:57 PM Woofmut, the masses already have decided. And I am letting them merrily go their way. But here on Tiki CENTRAL, I am surprised to find (seemingly like-minded) veterans of Tiki voicing support for the broad generalization of the term, which will be the basic result of not wanting to bother to differentiate. That way, any Hawaiian Bar WILL be called a Tiki Bar here. "I think hula girls, coconuts, leis, outriggers, exotic flora print fabrics, et cetera are all Tiki." In and of themselves, they are not. They are Polynesian pop. Which IS part and parcel of "Tiki". Ve-ry simple, no? And I do not expect to have this understood by the average Party Store customer. But by the fans of my books, and members of Tiki Central, I do. "As always with the English language it ultimately doesn't matter one bit what purists or defenders-of-the-word have to say on the matter" Why am I a purist if I am merely following a simple logic? And you, pal, have just superseded any "defenders-of-the-word by becoming a defender of the LETTER !!! :D A Tiki mug is different from a tiki mug !!? I would never dream to go there, explain that one to the drunken Oasis partyer! But all this has been re-hashed here many times, my initial post addressed the mistaken premise that drew the conclusion that in order to keep Tiki TIKI, none of the above items could be part of it. And I was asking WHO here had ever suggested such a thing?

Woofmut, the masses already have decided. And I am letting them merrily go their way. But here on Tiki CENTRAL, I am surprised to find (seemingly like-minded) veterans of Tiki voicing support for the broad generalization of the term, which will be the basic result of not wanting to bother to differentiate. That way, any Hawaiian Bar WILL be called a Tiki Bar here.

"I think hula girls, coconuts, leis, outriggers, exotic flora print fabrics, et cetera are all Tiki."

In and of themselves, they are not. They are Polynesian pop. Which IS part and parcel of "Tiki". Ve-ry simple, no?
And I do not expect to have this understood by the average Party Store customer. But by the fans of my books, and members of Tiki Central, I do.

"As always with the English language it ultimately doesn't matter one bit what purists or defenders-of-the-word have to say on the matter"

Why am I a purist if I am merely following a simple logic? And you, pal, have just superseded any "defenders-of-the-word by becoming a defender of the LETTER !!! :D A Tiki mug is different from a tiki mug !!? I would never dream to go there, explain that one to the drunken Oasis partyer!

But all this has been re-hashed here many times, my initial post addressed the mistaken premise that drew the conclusion that in order to keep Tiki TIKI, none of the above items could be part of it. And I was asking WHO here had ever suggested such a thing?

Post #450049 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Apr 27, 2009 2:57 PM