{"id":3397,"date":"2013-03-04T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2013-02-28T18:23:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T05:23:43","slug":"onosai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/onosai\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Onosa’i"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If there’s a word guaranteed to give me an immediate rush of blood to the head, it’s that all-time classic from my parents: ‘onosa’i<\/i>. I suspect it’s a Samoan-isation of “honest” but its meaning and application is “hang in there” or “it’ll be worth it in the long run.”<\/p>\n

Of course, in hindsight, my parents were mostly right in their invocation of this word to a spoilt and easily frustrated child but to be honest, Dad, when I said I’d had enough of playing cricket with a real cricket ball, and you used that word, and in the next over I was concussed by that really hard cricket ball, maybe I needed more than your standard “Ua a la ‘ia?” (as in “What did you expect would happen [if you don’t duck]?”).<\/p>\n

Hoo!<\/b> I’m waving my hands in the air to cool myself already!<\/p>\n

All of the above leading in typically looong and meandering way to a bit of a confession: I’ve been writing another blog.<\/p>\n

Since 2011, I’ve run up over 170 posts on that blog. Canny image use\/linking, potty language, reasonably regular posts, and the Shield of Anonymity have racked up over 3100 pageviews.<\/p>\n

On this<\/strong> site, up since 2006, I’ve published 426 posts (admittedly, some of them reposts in time of personal need), and my analytics tell me I’ve just broken 9000 pageviews.<\/p>\n

That’s 37 pageviews per post on the other blog, versus 21 on my home site.<\/p>\n

That’s a rate of 1 post every 3.57 days on the other blog compared to this one’s 1 post every 5.65 days.<\/p>\n

One could argue I could put my energy into just the one blog and see the stats rise. But that other blog has been a welcome relief – still is a welcome drink of spring water – and its purpose is at odds with Indelible Freckles<\/i> on a number of levels.<\/p>\n

So… Guess I just have to be ‘onosa’i<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there’s a word guaranteed to give me an immediate rush of blood to the head, it’s that all-time classic from my parents: ‘onosa’i. I suspect it’s a Samoan-isation of “honest” but its meaning and application is “hang in there” or “it’ll be worth it in the long run.” Of course, in hindsight, my parents … <\/p>\n

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