Hey all,

My name is Ki and I'm a korean american student in fla... holla

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We don't speak Spanish here in Korea yet, but I'm sure we will soon, if we allow Congress to run amuck with that immigration bill! Write your congressman today! Stop the amnesty!

"Hola" should remain a foreign phrase in our dictionary!

( I was in Florida last year, and understand that Spanish is necessary in Miami in order to buy gas and groceries...) It is a shame.


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It's very possible that ki112 was using a Spanish phrase, but on the other hand...

My boys don't speak Spanish either (only Korean and English), but they often use the phrase "holla" in emails and chat rooms. It's young people's speak for "please respond" as in "holler back at me."

As you've noted, the proper Spanish spelling is "hola" and it means "hello." Of course, one doesn't normally end a correspondance with "hello," so if that is what ki112 was doing, it would be kind of an odd way of using the language.

Right on! I am old, and old fashioned, and don't know all the chat room phrases (BTW), just some. (LOL)

I saw that ki112 was in Florida, and assumed holla was Spanish misspelled. You know what happens when you assume...


Holler means two things to a West Virginian- 1. A loud yell, and 2. a place where most people live. We never say,"I live up the hollow behind the grocery store." We say "up the holler". (Those that don't live up the holler live down in the bottom; If you live down in the bottom, and the river floods, and destroys your house, you wish you lived up the holler!)

Now that is some funny stuff!

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Thanks. You Texans sound a lot like us Hillbillies when you talk. I get mistaken for a Texan sometime, maybe it is the cowboy boots I prefer to wear. Paul Harvey and I agree that boot are the greatest footwear man ever made. I can walk all day through the mall and my feet don't hurt afterwards. The secret is the good arch.

Texas and West Virginia are both the same size in volume. If you could flatten or roll out WV it would be about the same size as Texas. The hollers would then become arroyos, I guess?