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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 01:44 AM
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Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
Edited on Tue Mar-23-04 01:53 AM by GoddessOfGuinness


A fish that only Hawaiians could properly name.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:03 AM
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:04 AM
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2. One of my favorite pronunciation soundfiles from the Am. Her. Dictionary!
courtesy of Bartleby.com, found here: http://www.bartleby.com/61/46/H0324650.html
Just a regular .wav file, plays on Windows Media Player.
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 07:42 AM
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3. Sadly...another piece of info I picked up from Star Trek.....
And it is the 'State fish' isnt it?
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:26 PM
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5. What a great voice!
Sounds like James Earl Jones.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:37 PM
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8. We are NOT going to talk about how many of those I downloaded
nor the "rap" records I made by stringing a bunch of them together. (Pssst, it was uhhhhhhh, about 400 files.) A woman does the pronunciations for some letters, though.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:55 PM
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12. the humhumu one would stand by itself
as a great rhythm track. I can hear something Phillip Glassish...
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 08:09 AM
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4. I like the etymology
trigger fish with a blunt snout like a pig's : <humuhumu> small trigger fish (from reduplication of Proto-Polynesian <*sumu>, trigger fish) + <nukunuku> small snout, reduplication of <nuku>, snout + , like + <pua'a> pig.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:21 PM
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14. I'd like to learn to speak Hawaiian
It's such a musical language.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:30 PM
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6. I remember those from my time in Hawaii.
The state fish! :-)
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:34 PM
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7. Oh yeah? Well... SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!
So there.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:40 PM
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9. I have a beautiful fish print of one on the wall in front of me
I nice souvenir/memory of my time God's land

(and also have a nice pastel of Matsumoto's)
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:44 PM
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10. And don't forget the Lauwiliwilinukunukuoi'oi
There's a wonderful children's book of a humuhumu and a lauwiliwili getting married and having a child which they name Lau-Wiliwili-Humuhumu-Nukunuku-Nukunuku-Apua'A-Oi'Oi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188018866X/002-3816620-9592059?v=glance
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:19 PM
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13. Thanks!
I just added it to the list of books I'm getting for my 5 year old. He's quite a reader! :hi:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:57 PM
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16. I'm sure he'll love it!!
I thought it was great when I read it. Alas, I was a poor intern at the time, and couldn't afford it, so I didn't get a copy. Though Ihave a number of other wonderful Hawaiian children's books. :-)
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 03:44 PM
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11. Okay, now try and use it in a song lyric
oh wait, it's already been done!

http://www.huapala.org/My/My_Little_Grass_Shack_In_K.html

My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawai`i
by Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison & Johnny Noble

I want to go back to little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawai`i
I want to be with all the kanes and wahines
That I used to know long ago...

I want to go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawai`i
Where the humuhumunukunukuâpua`a
Go swimming by
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:27 PM
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15. Kumoniwanalaya
That's my favorite
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 05:50 PM
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17. What's that?
Hawaiian beer? :P
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 06:19 PM
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18. Yes, but is the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a native to . . .
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?

I think NOT!! ;-)
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 12:05 AM
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19. Water's too cold in Wales...
I'm going to have to visit Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch one day. Just because it's there. :-)
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