polynesian talk

as the polynesians join our student body each year, we all, at one point become friends with them whether we want to or not. they are obviously not the quietest students on campus, but stereotypically, the spontaneous and loud ones. for the past 4 years, i've been on the basketball team with a bunch of them, where i've learned to catch on to their "lingo." i also realize that i am not as sheltered as i once was when i first came to this school. the way that they stick up for themselves ad each other, and the "mokeness" in their sentences. i have come a long way since the times i was using proper english. i guess it isn't such a good influence in a way because my english isn't so good, but at the same time, it's like we all sort of caught on to a new way of communicating. a lot of hawaii kids who go up to the mainland for college talk about how their roommates slash friends at the school can't understand what they're saying. it's like listening to some person from another country speak a foreign language that you can partly understand at the least.