[QCWA] Monitoring Stn on Maui

[Norm Gertz]

Joe......lots of Hawaiian words are not part of their language but merely 
expressions or local slang etc...
The town below the Marine camp was Haiku which is Japanese poetry and not of 
Hawaiian origin.
Makawao is still a "cowboy" town with hitching posts etc.  Since there was a 
big cattle ranch there we could get some really great steaks on liberty. 
The locals all mainly ate fish and thought we were crazy to eat meat.

Hope all this talk about Maui isnt getting boring to the guys..

73   Norm  K1AA
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From: "Joseph Fenn" <jfenn at lava.net>
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Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Monitoring Stn on Maui


> Well Norm,  I dug deeply here to see if "Kokomo" was in any way
> tied to the Hawaiian language.  Checked with the author Sam Keala
> who wrote the Hawiian Dictionary along with Mary Pukui which all
> our College students use as a guide and Sam insisted it had no
> meaning at all in Hawaiian language.     So its a mystery
> and some Maui People claimed it was the 4th Divn that was stationed
> there who somehow came up with the road name.
> Reason I had to take a course in Hawaiian lingo was most of their
> songs have "double entendre" I/E dual meanings.  One nice
> and one naughty.  So we knew when to smile and when not to
> while singing their music.
>                          Joe
> "Makawau" is where they hold their annual cowboy day also with
> riders, ropers, the whole shebang.
>
>
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