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ID	Country / City	Comment	Project / Group
24839	United States Honolulu	This is the design on a T-Shirt. Shaka Bruddah is Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole). Shaka refers to a hand sign popular in local Hawaiʻi which has multiple meanings, some of which are ‘thanks’ ‘hello’ ‘goodbye’ while Bruddah is roughly equivalent to English ‘brother’ as a term of endearment. The English translation for Shaka is ‘hang loose’ which is provided on the shirt design. The Hawaiian Islands are located above the Shaka which is flanked by two coconut trees. The bottom contains the words Aloha and Hawaii. This shirt seems to be meant for outsiders making the T-shirt symbolic-synthetic because ‘hang loose’ is not commonly used by locals but rather is used more by the surfer community in the continental US. KS	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24870	アメリカ合衆国 Honolulu	I found this flyer on the bulletin board on campus. I suppose this is expressive sign because they use “kine” to share the local identity. SS	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24897	United States Waipahu	This is a restaurant sign. “Wat Get” is Pidgin (Hawaiian Creole) or “what is there” in English. Wat means “what” in English and “get” is derivative of Chinese from their sentence structure and has the meaning from this sentence “there is/is there.” I believe this sign is an example of symbolic-authentic because this is a common thing locals say and usually only locals get food from here. C.R.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24948	United States Waipahu	This is a shirt that says so urusai. There is also the meaning of urusai below in English which say irritating. Urusai is a Japanese word that also means annoying or noisy there is also Japanese characters. This Symbolic-synthetic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24949	United States Waipahu	This is a shirt that says Chee hoo on it this is a (hwc) slang that locals most likely use at a football game or to up lift the mood. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24950	United States Waipahu	This is a shirt that says Bumbai with the meaning below which is in Hawaii creole “layers brah”. Brah is short for “braddah” which also means “brother” in English. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24951	United States Honolulu	This is a shirt with a Shaka logo on it and it says Howzit brah (hwc). Howzit also means “how is it?” in English. Brah is short for “braddah” which means “brother” in English. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24952	United States Waipahu	This is a shirt that says rajah on it. Rajah (hwc) means “roger” in English. So the word rajah is a term used to confirm something. The “Jah” is in all caps because it comes from Bob Marley’s song Jah live, which is why the letters are in red, yellow, and green. Most locals likes Bob Marley and we commonly use the word rajah. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24953	United States Waipahu	This is a cooler bag that says “Malama Da ‘Aina” on it. Malama and ‘Aina is in Hawaiian. Malama means “respect”, Da is suppose to be ka in Hawaiian but it is a linker which means “the” and ‘Aina means “land”. This commonly used amongst locals and some non-locals when someone litters or probably one the few things that is taught to tourist when they fly down for vacation. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24954	United States Kapolei	This is a card that says “ey! Dis card no stay late” (hwc). In English this says wait! This card is not late. In other words the person is saying that they are not giving the card, after your birthday is passed. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24955	United States Kapolei	This is a card that says “Minahs brah”, “Shaka, brah”, “laydahs, brah”, and “What, brah” (hwc). This is a card that is using humor. Because brah does not mean bra it is short for braddah which means “brother” in English. Minahs is minor; to locals it also means “it is not a big deal”. Laydahs is later. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24956	United States Kapolei	This is a card that says “Simon sez act lolo”, “Simon sez make one Shaka”, “Simon sez wiggle yo’ okole” (hwc). Lolo is Hawaiian but written as lōlō which means crazy. Sez is says in English. Yo’ is short for your. Okole is Hawaiian but normally written as ‘Okole which means butt. Shaka is a term that is a symbol of goodbye or hello. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
24957	United States Kapolei	This card says “here’s one bottled water fo’ go with your birthday cake” and there is a bottle that says “local kine tap water, straight from da pipe” (hwc). The first phrase in English means here is a bottled water to go with your birthday cake. And the phrases on the bottle says local tap water, water coming from the faucet. This a humor saying that our tap water is clean so you do not need to get it from bottled water from the store. This is symbolic-authentic. R.N.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
25081	アメリカ合衆国 Honolulu	This is a name of the food truck in the campus. “ sistah” means “sister”. I think this is symbolic-authentic to share a sense of “local”.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
25082	アメリカ合衆国 Honolulu	This is a menu of the food truck in our campus. Basically it is written in English, but you can find some Pidgin words such as “DA KINE”. This is symbolic-authentic. SS	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
25083	アメリカ合衆国 Honolulu	This is a name of the food truck in the campus. “Sisters” means “sister” in English. This is symbolic-authentic to share a sense of “local”. SS	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
25087	United States Honolulu	The sign says “Local Kine Cards” which translates to Local Kind Cards, referencing the language locals talk, Pidgin. This is symbolic-authentic. J.A.S	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
25088	United States Honolulu	Act “lolo” can be translated to act crazy, make one “Shaka”, which means “hang loose” or the hand symbol associated with it, and wiggle yo “okole” meaning shake your butt. Lastly, “Kay, now open da card!” Translates to Okay, now open the card! This is authentic-symbolic. J.A.S	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
25089	United States Honolulu	Implies you already know who gave you this card. Authentic-symbolic. J.A.S	Multilingual Hawaiʻi
25090	United States Honolulu	Birthday card. Symbolic-authentic. J.A.S.	Multilingual Hawaiʻi