Tiki Central / General Tiki / I named my bar what?
Post #91059 by Tiki_Bong on Thu, May 13, 2004 4:25 PM
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The Hawaiian language is ripe with inference and allusion. Many meanings are inferred and it takes something of a cultural understanding to pick up on them. It's also horribly mis-punctuated. The absense of an okina ('), such as the one that should be in the word Hawai'i, or the absense of a macron changes the meaning of words completely. A lanai is a patio, but Lana'i is an island. |