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43954
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United States
Honolulu
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SU
- medium: The sign is printed on a piece of cloth on the front of a building.
- domain: The context of the sign is that Poke by the Pound is a fresh poke and seafood market.
- audience: This sign is intended for people who are passing by this place and might not see the smaller sign that is behind the girl’s helmet in this photo. This sign is intended for locals and nonlocals.
- function: The sign is trying to inform people about the seafood market and get them intrigued in trying the poke.
- language: The language that is dominant on this sign is English, “by the pound” with a little Pidgin, “poke”.
The word “poke” can be a Pidgin term that means to slice, or cut, wood or fish into crosswise pieces and is often used to describe sliced, or cubed, fish that is ready for consumption.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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38579
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United States
Aiea
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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43955
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United States
Kaneohe
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SU
- medium: The sign is printed on a card.
- domain: The context of the sign is that it is two friends meeting each other but they smell something rotten and they use the Pidgin language to express what they’re thinking.
- audience: The sign is intended for the general public. Mainly only the locals would probably understand it and nonlocals would most likely have a harder time.
- function: The sign is trying to make the receiver of this card laugh and is used for entertainment purposes.
- language: The language that is dominant on this sign is Pidgin or HWC with a little English.
The phrase “Ey! Howzit!” is translated to “Hey, how are you?” of “Hey what’s going on?”. “Howzit” is a combination of the words “how”, “is”, and “it”. “Ho” is translated to “Woah” and “dat” is translated to “that”. The last sentence on the card, “You think it’s rotten mangos or what?” translates to “Do you think it’s rotten mangos?”.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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38580
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United States
Aiea
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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47290
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United States
Kailua
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KA - Here the Hawaiian is kū kia'i mauna, which means to stand strong as guard of the mountain. in this case referring to Mauna Kea
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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25787
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United States
Honolulu
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“EH, sticks on whatevahs” means “it sticks on whatever (anything)”. It sounds authentic but is more aimed at tourists, so it is synthetic.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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38847
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United States
Kalihi
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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47807
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United States
Honolulu
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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38848
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United States
Kapolei
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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47300
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United States
Honolulu
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GM EXTRA CREDIT- I took this photo on the bus passing by going to Ala Moana mall. This is a beautiful moral stating “greetings aloha from Waikiki” which I would assume that someone local painted because they added quite a lot of detail ( even in the letters they added all the popular places/things in general around Waikiki). I bet lots of tourists love this moral to take pictures and to post on social media.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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47301
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United States
Honolulu
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GM EXTRA CREDIT This aloha sign was in whole foods - in the food/deli area. I'm not quite sure why they have the word aloha just kind of floading in the deli because it doesn't really correlate to anything. This makes me think about how the word aloha is overused and that they just put it anywhere and everywhere.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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47303
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United States
Honolulu
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GM EXTRA CREDIT- This poster was in one of the freshman towers. The poster says Ka Papa Lo’I ‘O Kānewai - on one of the pages of the history, it states that it is piko for Hawaiian knowledge at the University of Hawaii at Manoa sitting at the bottom of the slopes of Wa’ahila. I believe that they were trying to educate us students about the topic and just made this posted to get more information out about it!
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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47304
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United States
Honolulu
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GM EXTRA CREDIT I was passing and saw this which says Maluna A’e O na Lahui Apau Ke ola ke kanaka which means - I tried finding what it meant but I only found out that it might mean something about being UH’s the moto. It means “above all nations is humanity”. The UH website explained the meaning - there is a couple of motos that they explain. It was placed on a cement barrier/bench, it has been there for some time.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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38346
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United States
Honolulu
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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46538
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United States
Honolulu
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(SP) (Check in #3) though a bit hard to get a picture of, this is a semi-permanent vinyl window sign on a building on the UH Manoa campus, in the domain of student life/education. It uses the Pidgin word Pau (end, all gone) alongside the English word violence to express their views of getting rid of violence. It is also a pun, because PAU is an acronym for the on-campus organization to whom this sign belongs to. It seems they used Pidgin here to help the organization feel connected to Local students and to the school, maybe to encourage students to feel closer to the organization and reach out if they need help. The Pidgin is in huge letters compared to the English to emphasize their goal (to end violence) and because it is the name of the organization.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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46539
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United States
Honolulu
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(SP)(check in #3) This photo has both Pidgin and Hawaiian in it, but I want to use it as a Pidgin photo. This is a photo of the common Pidgin greeting “howzit” permanently painted in the entrance way of a dormitory, in the domain of student life/education. Clearly this phrase was used to catch the attention and be understood by both Local students of students from out of state, since almost everyone is familiar with this phrase. It may have been used to make the dormitory feel more genuinely Hawaiian, and a more relaxing and easy-going place for students to live. It makes any student who walks in immediately feel like they are being greeted by a friend.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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46028
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United States
Honolulu
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SU: Check up #2
- What languages are used on the sign?: The language that is used on this sign is Hawaiian.
- How are the languages presented?:
The word “Hele” is presented in big font in all capital letters in the color white. It is presented but because it is the name of the gas station.
- Who is the audience?:
The audience is is for the general public but I think it was mainly for locals.
- What is the domain?:
The domain is at a workplace (gas station).
- What is the sign trying to tell people?:
The word “Hele” means go in Hawaiian. So I think the gas station is named “Hele” because people go there to get gas so that they can go and continue on with their journey.
- Why is Hawaiian being used here?:
Hawaiian is being used here because it is appropriate being on Hawaiian lands. It also catches the attention of the locals and nonlocals that drive past this sign.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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46540
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United States
Honolulu
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(SP)(check in #3) this photo has both Pidgin and English in it, but I want to use it as a Pidgin photo. This is a non-permanent advertisement found in a city bus in Honolulu, in the domain of transportation/advertising. The brightest, most eye catching section of the ad is in Pidgin (talk story). The Pidgin, when combined with the Hawaiian word and topic of the ad, was clearly made for Locals who understand Pidgin/Hawaiian and have an interest in Hawaiian cultural activities. English is in smaller letters with the instructions to access these stories, so that anyone, Local or non-local, will be able to access them. The topic of this poster is about working passionately to keep Hawaiian culture and story telling alive, hence the use of the Hawaiian word for triumph and the fiery red color.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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46541
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United States
Haleiwa
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(SP)(check in #3) this is a photo of a permanent wooden sign outside of a children’s clothing shop, in the domain of commodification. This store sells clothes branded around the Hawaiian aesthetic and language, so it makes sense that they used a Hawaiian word in their name, along with the aesthetic of straw hats, hula skirts, and leis. It is a pretty expensive store, so it is likely more popular among tourist in the area; they hang have uses Hawaiian in the name/on their sign to make the shop feel more authentically Hawaiian to tourists and Locals alike, though likely more towards tourists since they used a pretty well known, easy to figure out Hawaiian word. Tourists may see that sign and want to buy clothes to make their children feel less like normal kids and more like special little “keiki” who got to visit Hawai'i.
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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27086
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United States
Honolulu
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Multilingual Hawaiʻi
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Lingscape
