> In article <19971004230701.TAA13862@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
> tsalagiwmn@aol.com (TsalagiWmn) writes:
>
> > Second...the word (in phonetics) "Aho" is a bastardization of a Commanche
> > word...yes, it is a "strong agreement"...however, my questions is this...why
> > would a people who are not Indian wish to use it? And why would anyone use a
> > word they do not know about? And...why has it been, as usual, bastardized?
> > (Aho to "ho")
<Kaha politely interjects>
Hmmm...I often sign snailmail letters to friends with "Ciao", and have
never felt the need to be Italian to do so. Words express thoughts and
emotions, and those thoughts and emotions go beyond national and
cultural boundaries. "Deja-Vu" expresses the concept in our minds better
than any English word or expression. And so it is used, with thanks to
the French. "Gesundheit" is often wished when somebody sneezes, tho not
everybody knows what this German word means ("Health").
Bastardized? Sounds hard. "Rainbowized", maybe. Perhaps it was changed
from "Aho" to "Ho" because too many ppl were answering strong agreements
at Councils with "Gesundheit!" ;->
> >
> >
BoomBdBoom continues...
>
> Although having a neat cultural background for the words we use is nice,
> it isn't necessary. Where ever it came from and ment originally, Ho is
> Rainbow now. Ho, along with "We Love You", "Welcome Home" and even Rainbow
> now have new meanings for me. They are part of what makes a gathering
> different from Babylon. They help promote the attitude of giving and joy
> that is so important to Rainbow. Whatever it ment before, or wherever it
> came from, Ho now means "yes! Yes, yes, oh god yes!" It is perfect for
> what we need. It's a word that can be heard over the noisy silences of
> gatherings. (I was always dissapointed that the silences on the fourth
> weren't surreal.) It can be made to sound like a variety of emphatic
> yeses, but just doesn't feel right with a wimpy yes. "ho hum" ;^}
>
> I'd like to point out that we stole "ohm" too. And, dispite what I have
> heard from some people, it aint what it used to be. The way we use it is
> uniquely Rainbow. Yes, there is some shodow of budhist meditation left,
> but you don't have to meditate like a budhist to get what we do out of it.
> ( I still, to this day, believe the brother in main cirlce in Minn. on the
> fourth just as the silence was braking ohmed a hole in the clouds.)
>
> Yes, we stole a lot of words from a lot of places (primarily English) and
> put them to our own uses. That's not too surprising considering that we
> are building a whole new culture. (Some might call it a subculture.) It's
> hard to create everyting that we need out of this air. Especially with so
> many people sloshing through, having to be taught the vocabulary at each
> gathering. But we need the words. We need to be able to talk about things
> that are common in Rainbow and no where else.
>
> I'm grateful for Ho. Also :-0.
HHH HHH OOO
HHH HHH OOOOOOO
HHH HHH OOO OOO
HHH HHH OOO OOO
HHHHHHHHHH OOO OOO
HHH HHH OOO OOO
HHH HHH OOO OOO
HHH HHH OOOOOOO
HHH HHH OOO (!!!!!!!!!)
>
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