How Do You Say Computer in Hawaiiaiian?
| dc.contributor.author | Hale, Constance | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-09T02:21:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-09T02:21:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | If there was one watershed moment for the dying Hawaiian language, it must have come in 1983, when a study showed that only 32 students under 18 (most of them concentrated in remote hamlets of Kaua'i and Ni'ihau) were able to speak Hawaiian. Immediately after the study, a dedicated group of professors and activists - many of them now at the University of Hawai'i in Hilo - gathered in Honolulu to start plotting the great Hawaiian-language comeback. Step One: repeal the century-old law prohibiting the teaching of Hawaiian in public schools. Step Two: establish a system of public schools with Hawaiian-language immersion programs. Once the schools started opening, it came time to hoist the Hawaiian language into the techno age - hook, line, and SLIP connection. That's when NeSmith joined forces with Keiki Kawai'ae'a and Keola Donaghy. In computer networks the three found a new medium that used the oral and the textual as its currency, a medium perhaps better suited to an oral tradition than the book ever was. | |
| dc.format.extent | 5 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/56884 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | |
| dc.publisher | Wired USA | |
| dc.rights | copyright Wired Magazine 1995 | |
| dc.subject | Leoki BBS | |
| dc.subject | Hale Kuamoʻo | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Hawaiian language--Computer network resources | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Hawaiians--Computer network resources | |
| dc.title | How Do You Say Computer in Hawaiiaiian? | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |