A guide for the rest of us!
Ain’t it the most wonderful thing in the entire world to have our boys back in the water? Professional surfing! Days that were, just last week, filled with dark depression now shine. My best friends Ron, Joe, Marty, Pete, the Waz and Kaipo!
Oh how their voices fill me with joy. How their voices chase my demons back to the recesses of my mind.
They are all at “The End of the Road” in “Tahiti” which is pronounced “taHIti” by Americans and TAhiti by Kaipo and Australians. They are at Teahupo’o.
But what does Teahupo’o mean? Either “heap pile” or “place of crushed skulls” or “pile of heads” I think.
But how is it supposed to be pronounced?
Cho-po.
Why then do Ron, Joe, Marty, Pete and the Waz say, “Cho-poo?” Why then does only Kaipo get it right?
Linguists, the scientific study of language and my graduate degree, tells us that Kaipo is Hawaiian and does everything right.
Cho-po.
Cho-po.
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i don’t know how you drop in on yourself but i bet it feels shit
Just now, Joe pronounced it Cho Po. He sounded very insecure and uncomfortable saying it, but you are single handedly affecting these guys! They are listening and they are afraid.
Thank you Twillsy, that was a ridiculous comment and needed to be addressed. You beat me to it!
Kaipo is extremely well spoken and kind. I was actually thinking about this yesterday too. Couldn’t they have a briefing to sort the pronunciation stuff out? For some reason it pisses me off that they can’t say AHdriano, instead of Adriano. Grrrrr
Chopes. Problem solved.
Next.
when captain cook sailed throughout the south pacific he noted that the Tahitian women were the most beautiful and the samoans the ugliest. i agree.
cook never got near samoa. he almost got eaten in the friendly islands though (tonga)
He did get eaten in Hawaii. Mahalo!
True dat!!! there is a lesson in that for all of us don’t you think?
No apostrophe Chas….no fucking apostrophe…this is the great schism. Carroll started it. Everyone just fell in line.
I went to the mayor, the little wooden house and knocked on her door. She wrote it down for me.
Teahupoo. no apostrophe.
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The reef is dangerous.
“I’ll have the Minor Threat t-shirt, the Raymond Pettibon knockoff and….. the baby doll that says ‘wham bam thank you Ma’am’. They both say that? No, not that one then, the one with the exposed brains.”
Kaipo’s blatant, egotistic annunciation habit is equivalent to the 2nd grade english teacher who likes to remind you that “You CAN go to the restroom, but…”