Before I moved here all I knew was stories from my mom (who lived in Honolulu for 2 years when she was 20) and from watching Lilo and Stitch. Now that I am here I want to watch that movie again.
People here really wear muumuus. People here really have interesting accents...Noni's accent in the movie was waaaay too slight. And there really are elderly Japanese women here who run fruit stands. And it feels cold when it's only 70 degrees in the mornings. (This from Miss Colorado who loves the cold! Yikes.)
And the little kids call grownups Aunty and Uncle here. The preschoolers call me Aunty K when I walk by, but the older kids call me by my last name. But the kids have a really hard time with interrogative sentences because questions don't go up here. They go down! You know it's a question by the Wh/Q word at the beginning, not by intonation. It's a real trip for someone who is sensitive to accents and language.
MAN I wish I had taken linguistics! Someone tell Wildeman to read this blog. Anyone know of any linguistics textbooks I can read to learn about this?
Posted by at September 5, 2003 04:56 PM | TrackBackInteresting. There's a lot of Filipinos in our church and they're all "aunty" too...
Posted by: Jeannette at September 6, 2003 04:55 AM