gabriele wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

View from the Crow's Nest wrote:

One of my favorites...

PORCUPINE MEATBALLS
 

 
(painted) TRIGGER FISH (humuhumunukunukuapua'a!)

Is that another creature that you eat/don't eat, Jet? 

TRIGGER HAPPY

[size=100][size=75]Ok, there are recipes.   You eat it.  What was I thinking?  [/size][/size]




 

Oh my!!!    *ROFL*  I've been trying to pronounce humuhumunukunukuapua'a  [size=100]in my mind, thinking that's about the strangest latin name I've heard of for any creature.      Bahahaha....[/size]
Cross-cultural enlightenment indeed, view!!!!!!!!       

gabriele wrote:

gabriele wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

 
(painted) TRIGGER FISH (humuhumunukunukuapua'a!)

Is that another creature that you eat/don't eat, Jet? 

TRIGGER HAPPY

[size=100][size=75]Ok, there are recipes.   You eat it.  What was I thinking?  [/size][/size]




 

Oh my!!!    *ROFL*  I've been trying to pronounce humuhumunukunukuapua'a  [size=100]in my mind, thinking that's about the strangest latin name I've heard of for any creature.      Bahahaha....[/size]
Cross-cultural enlightenment indeed, view!!!!!!!!       

 
Hi, Gabriele!!!  That is Hawaiian for the state's fish... in English it is the Painted Trigger Fish; in Hawaiian it is humu-humu-nuku-nuku-a-pua-a.  The U's are pronounced as "oo", the a's as "ah".  The apostrophe (okina) indicates a slight separation with each "ah" being pronounced distinctly.  It is a fun word to say...for the reasons you seem to indicate!!

A little trivia on the written Hawaiian language: a) the Hawaiian natives had only a verbal language before the first Christian missionaries began arriving in the islands in about 1828-1830; b) the written language was developed primarily so the Bible could be translated and the native people could learn to read; and c) the written language uses 5 vowels and 8 consonants which were taken from the English alphabet.

We have some Hawaiian missionary ancestors on my mother's side.  My great grandmother was born in Hawaii and is buried in the tiny cemetery across the street from the historic missionary church in Honolulu.

Last edited by JetmamaDiDi (2/23/2017 7:20 pm)

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

gabriele wrote:

gabriele wrote:

Is that another creature that you eat/don't eat, Jet? 

TRIGGER HAPPY

[size=100][size=75]Ok, there are recipes.   You eat it.  What was I thinking?  [/size][/size]




 

Oh my!!!    *ROFL*  I've been trying to pronounce humuhumunukunukuapua'a  [size=100]in my mind, thinking that's about the strangest latin name I've heard of for any creature.      Bahahaha....[/size]
Cross-cultural enlightenment indeed, view!!!!!!!!       

 
Hi, Gabriele!!! That is Hawaiian for the state's fish... in English it is the Painted Trigger Fish; in Hawaiian it is humu-humu-nuku-nuku-a-pua-a. The U's are pronounced as "oo", the a's as "ah". The apostrophe (okina) indicates a slight separation with each "ah" being pronounced distinctly. It is a fun word to say...for the reasons you seem to indicate!!

A little trivia on the written Hawaiian language: a) the Hawaiian natives had only a verbal language before the first Christian missionaries began arriving in the islands in about 1828-1830; b) the written language was developed primarily so the Bible could be translated and the native people could learn to read; and c) the written language uses 5 vowels and 8 consonants which were taken from the English alphabet.

We have some Hawaiian missionary ancestors on my mother's side. My great grandmother was born in Hawaii and is buried in the tiny cemetery across the street from the historic missionary church in Honolulu.

So interesting, Jet.  They were 20+ aboriginal languages and dozens more dialects when white people arrived.  Now many are extinct or have only a handful of people left who can still speak it.  What a shame....  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_Aboriginal_languages

This one is only spoken by about 70 remaining people (it has particular variety in the way sounds are formed):- 



 

gabriele wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

gabriele wrote:

Oh my!!!    *ROFL*  I've been trying to pronounce humuhumunukunukuapua'a  [size=100]in my mind, thinking that's about the strangest latin name I've heard of for any creature.      Bahahaha....[/size]
Cross-cultural enlightenment indeed, view!!!!!!!!       

 
Hi, Gabriele!!! That is Hawaiian for the state's fish... in English it is the Painted Trigger Fish; in Hawaiian it is humu-humu-nuku-nuku-a-pua-a. The U's are pronounced as "oo", the a's as "ah". The apostrophe (okina) indicates a slight separation with each "ah" being pronounced distinctly. It is a fun word to say...for the reasons you seem to indicate!!

A little trivia on the written Hawaiian language: a) the Hawaiian natives had only a verbal language before the first Christian missionaries began arriving in the islands in about 1828-1830; b) the written language was developed primarily so the Bible could be translated and the native people could learn to read; and c) the written language uses 5 vowels and 8 consonants which were taken from the English alphabet.

We have some Hawaiian missionary ancestors on my mother's side. My great grandmother was born in Hawaii and is buried in the tiny cemetery across the street from the historic missionary church in Honolulu.

So interesting, Jet.  They were 20+ aboriginal languages and dozens more dialects when white people arrived.  Now many are extinct or have only a handful of people left who can still speak it.  What a shame....  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_Aboriginal_languages

This one is only spoken by about 70 remaining people (it has particular variety in the way sounds are formed):- 



 

 Very interesting, Gabriele.

Our Native American population also have distinct languages.   In WWII, the government employed a few Navajo men known as "Code Talkers" to use their native language to create and speak secret codes for use by our military.  Their codes were never broken by the Japanese.  I think the last of them has died by now but they were quite critical to our war effort back then.  They were undoubtedly much more secure than the most secure computers, which are quite easily hacked!!  Not all things past are necessarily passé!

annieahoy wrote:

View from the Crow's Nest wrote:

Having just finished Linda Thompson's memoir, I thought I'd share one of the many great songs for which she was the lyricist.  Many with her husband, David Foster.

Love this song! 
 

Me too!!