Translation Meaning?

Judy wrote
>> "honi kaua" means "kiss me".
>>
>
> Well......more like kiss us (you & me), but. Hawaiian pronouns are
> different!

It works well when there's just the two of us. Honi kakou, on the other
hand, would be a bit overboard. and honi a'u or hon ia'u seem a bit
narcissistic - not to mention lonely. US is an appropriate term when
we're talking about nations in the singular.
And here you thought Hawaiian could be confusing! (vbg)

loompia@ (Loompia) wrote in message
news:<1067739601-sch@news.lava.net>...
> The original phrase in question "ho'olu komo la kaua"
> makes no sense - even if we tried to put the diacritcal marks in the=20
> proper
> places via different interpretations. The sentence structure itself in
> Hawaiian thinking is off.

Mahalo for your mana'o. I figured that there was a good chance the
people whose web pages I saw that phrase on didn't know proper
Hawaiian, which is why I hedged my comment to Sandra as I did.

Loompia wrote
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Mahalo indeed! Very helpful to us walkers who welcome the friendship of a
runner. E hana hou!