Aaron Gets Gordon's Truck Started

In the "isn't non-Indo-European morphology great" vein, look at the parallel between the words for university in Chinese and Hawai'ian...both are literally "big school". Huh! What are the odds?

Hawai'ian: kulanui
the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa: ke Kulanui o Hawai'i ma Mānoa

First, a few "freebie" straight TPR words from the beginning of the class session:

'ahinahina = gray (and didn't I get a gray rental car the next day!?)
'ele'ele = black
ke'oke'o = white

emi = cheap (came up in the context of the story and easily pantomimed. Plus, if you think of the Emmy awards, it's easy to remember that emi means cheap, as daytime television is nothing else!)
and an actual cognate/borrowing from English: pia = beer (pronounce it the Boston way and you'll see!)

And then the Fab Four for the day:

holoholo = to cruise around, drive around, go someplace in a car or truck
ho'omaka = to start
kalaka = truck
hiki i / hiki iā = can, is able to (use "iā" with proper names or pronouns, "i" elsewhere)

Makemake 'o Gordon e holuholu i ka Sand Island. Makemake 'o Gordon e ho'omaka i ke kalaka. 'Ahinahina ke kelaka. Emi ke kalaka. I'ini 'o Gordon ke kalaka. I'ini 'o Gordon ke holoholo i ke kalaka. Akā aia ka pilikia! Nui ka pilikia! A'ole hiki iā 'o Gordon ho'omaka i ke kalaka. A'ole hau'ole 'o Gordon. A'ole hiki iā 'o Gordon ke holoholo i ka Sand Island.

Hele aku 'o Gordon iā Aaron. Hiki iā 'o Aaron ke ho'omaka i ke kalaka 'ahinahina. Hau'ole 'o Gordon!

Ōlelo 'o Gordon iā Aaron, "Makemake 'ou e holoholo i ka Sand Island?"

"'Ae. Anu ka pia i ka 7-11 ma ka Sand Island."

Akā a'ole makemake 'o Gordon holoholo i ka 7-11 no ka pia. I'ini 'o Gordon i ka pia emi. Pipi'i nā pia i ka 7-11. A'ole emi! Makemake 'o Gordon e hele aku no pia i ka Foodland, no ka mea [because] emi ka pia i ka Foodland.

Holoholo 'o Gordon a me 'o Aaron i ka Sand Island. 'Ao'aokai lāua i ka wai. A'ohe nā manō. Hau'ole lāua.

Akā aia ka pilikia. A'ole hiki i kalaka 'ahinahina e ho'omaka! Akā a'ole māka'u 'o Gordon.

Hiki iā 'o Aaron ke ho'omaka i ke kalaka. Maka'i loa! Hiki iā 'o Aaron ho'omaka i ke kalaka 'ahinahina o Gordon. "Mahalo nui loa, e Aaron!"

Ōlelo 'o Gordon, "Hiki nō. Hiki nō. Holoholo kāua no pia pipi'i ma ka 7-11." A'ole i'ini 'o Gordon i ka pia pipi'i, akā no ka mea hiki iā 'o Gordon e ho'omaka i ke kalaka, hau'ole 'o Gordon.

Hau'ole lua 'o Aaron.