Polynesian Cultural Center - Yay or nay?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I know--the first time I spent a summer session at UH

some of us Mainlanders noticed that and wondered why the company's official name wasn't "DaBus."

There were trash cans on the UH campus that said "da rubbish."

As a linguist, I really enjoyed listening to the varying degrees of Pidgin, from a slight accent to full-blown incomprehensible. I was once at Ala Moana Center where two comedians were doing a routine in thick Pidgin. You could tell who the local shoppers were by the fact that they were laughing, while the Mainlanders just looked puzzled.

That first summer session was in 1977, and the second one was in 1991. Again, as a linguist, I was pleased to see more attention being paid to the Hawaiian language. As one of my former fellow graduate students, then a professor at UH said, "Unlike Japanese, Chinese, Samoan, and the other Asian and Pacific languages, there's no 'old country' for Hawaiian. It has to live or die right here."