The friend sitting next to me used to read hawaiian and I can see the smirk.
I think you're right! my god, al's singing abaout needing a wee wee!
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I'm inclined to believe the translation Minnick found. I think it was Jim West's friend Kapo Ku who said that Hawaiian lyrics are nearly always about either flowers or sex, and this has a bit of both of those.
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Haha, Kapo. Yeah most are, actually. Kind of like pop today...
Unfortunately with Hawaiian, you can't simply translate each word. Strings of words combined can mean something different than the words individually.
Unfortunately with Hawaiian, you can't simply translate each word. Strings of words combined can mean something different than the words individually.
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Kapo gave me this link:
http://huapala.org/Kau/Kaua_I_Ka_Huahuai.html
http://huapala.org/Kau/Kaua_I_Ka_Huahuai.html
Kapo wrote: What is called "The Hawaiian War Chant" was actually taken from a song called "Kaua I Ka Huahua'i". I sent the link to you above. It, as so many Hawaiian songs are, is a love song, a song about making love in the sea spray. Hawaiians liked to use a poetic device called kaona or hidden meaning. You say one thing that sounds obvious but mean another. The sea spray is an example of that. I'll let your imagination run wild. The only parts of the song ever song are the first verse and the chorus. In other parts of Polynesia and on the island of Ni'ihau they pronounce the "k"s as "t"s. That is where you get the "Taua la ta huahua'i la" from.
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Well, if he ever tells everybody to sing along again with that part of the Yoda Chant...
...we just might be able to?
...we just might be able to?
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I don't see what's so hard about it...
Then again, I'm more exposed to the language.
Phonetically:
Tah who wah ee la ah tah who wah he wah he la
A who he knee la ah peelee coo ah loo ah la
Poo too too-ee loo ah ee tay toh ee la
Hah new lee poh ee tah pah ah lie
Ah way tah who ill la
Then again, I'm more exposed to the language.
Phonetically:
Tah who wah ee la ah tah who wah he wah he la
A who he knee la ah peelee coo ah loo ah la
Poo too too-ee loo ah ee tay toh ee la
Hah new lee poh ee tah pah ah lie
Ah way tah who ill la
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Re: Yoda Chant
My three-year-old is obsessed with the Yoda Chant! He throws his arms out and yells hummina-hummina! He doesn't have the chant down yet (I did say he was 3) but he is whittling away at memorizing Yoda, so, he'll get there.
I keep wishing I was more of a tech dude so I could take the audio from the WAY live DVD and put it onto a CD that I could listen to in the car. THEN we could Yoda chant down the highway!
I keep wishing I was more of a tech dude so I could take the audio from the WAY live DVD and put it onto a CD that I could listen to in the car. THEN we could Yoda chant down the highway!
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