Short slide story. Apologies in advance. Your post reminded me of something hubby told me about when he lived Oahu back in 1960-1964. He said the native people called him a Haole (which they told him meant White Dog LOL) and he also said they called black folks Popolo. He asked them what it meant and they told him sour, bitter blackberry.
I looked it up just now in the Urban Dictionary.
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popolo - Urban Dictionary
www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=popolo
Ancient Hawaiian word for Black Nightshade, Solanum nigrum, a medicinal plant bearing shiny black berries, adapted later as word for African.
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Phoenicians filled the world with Phoney (funny) sounds.popolo - Urban Dictionary
www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=popolo
Ancient Hawaiian word for Black Nightshade, Solanum nigrum, a medicinal plant bearing shiny black berries, adapted later as word for African.
Talk, Talk-language is so interesting to dig.
Talk Pidgeon (tok pisin) cracks me up.
Now hubs is dragging me to cut the Jumanji growing up the side of our house. I must climb ladders today.
I should have my a** beat for planting English ivy against a brick wall. Well it looked cool when the English do it around their castles. Trouble is I don’t have servants to clip the ivy. I just get Jumanji.
Damn it just when I dig good stuff he gets an idea we need to do yard work. Think I found something on (Y)
Be back in a bit.
Haole literally means “stranger”, and popolo is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. I’ve heard it used in HI for black people.