Andy left Austria today in the morning and Leilani is completely surrounded by – German speaking – Austrians. It was extremely surprising to me that she came up with a new English phrase today in the afternoon – “No like it!” She repeated it several times for a movie that was on and later said it again to decline to use the potty.
I shouldn’t even call it English – it sounded more Pidgin to me, but I suppose it is probably easier for a Baby to come up with the phrase that way, than to use a word like “don’t”, or a longer sentence, but it sure reminded me of the way the “locals” in Hawaii speak.
The more unusual thing she said today, when the food came was “Kaukau, Kaukau” My mom thought of hot chocolate, which is pronounces similar in German, but, Leilani no like da kine Kakao.
From Kaukau.org: “Kaukau” is a pidgin slang word meaning “food” or “to eat.” The Hawaiian term for food is `ai. The two theories on the origin of the word “kaukau” are the Hawaiian word for table, pâkaukau, and the Chinese word for food, chow chow. In Hawaii we say “We go kaukau!”, I would say, “I hungry I like kaukau!” or “Let’s kaukau!”