Corrick, who has been to Hawaii for a week, clearly knows more than you, someone who has lived in Hawaii their entire life.
Not sure if you are being serious or not. Or even how this has turned into a flexing of knowledge.
Corrik posted...
SwiftyDC posted...
Im just saying. Ive lived here all my life we dont say mahalo to say other phrases.
I am just saying Hawaiin natives gave us a literal presentation on it and it was on our flyer when we arrived at our condo. Our flight attendant said it when he met us. We were greeted with it at Ted's bigger burgers when we got to the register and at multiple gas stations. I just don't think that shit fits your it is only used for thank you idea. But, I don't live there. Maybe those damn natives were bullshitting. We heard it moreso on North shore than in Honolulu itself, but the pool tournament was in Waikiki and they were big on it there.
Are you thinking of Aloha? Cause that means more than Hello/Goodbye.
No. I am thinking of mahalo.
And Im telling you Mahalo means Thank you. It may mean other words in the Hawaiian language as the language only has so many letters, but it is primarily used to say Thank you. Im not sure why people were greeting you with Mahalo, unless you did something for them; they greet you saying Aloha.
I explained why. The flight attendant gave us a small crash course on it on our inbound flight while giving us recommendations of what to do. Then they had a presentation explaining why natives say Mahalo so much before our tournament started. They said mahalo is basically a word of high respect among Hawaiians. That the meaning doesn't translate to English properly.
Oh and he made us listen to this iPod full of songs from the guy he said is basically the Michael Jackson of Hawaii. I forget the name though. ---