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June 2025 Update
🕑 Added 2025-06-09 16:40:31 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
I apologize for not posting this last week, a few things came up that I wanted to address before updating all of you.
I had a bit of writer's block during May that I was able to overcome last week, so things are progressing nicely. Script 1 is at 27,000 words and is currently being fact-checked by a phd researcher who reached out after my Bridges interview. His input has been pretty valuable so far. Script 2 is at 10,000 words and I'm maybe 1/3 of the way through my outline. It's looking like all three of these videos will be about the length of the SDA video.
With these videos, I'm also looking to do a bit of a rebrand. I figured I would announce it first to all of you, my supporters, to see if there are any artists who might be interested in working on that. I'd be looking for a new avatar/profile pic and a new intro cartoon/animation. If you think you're up to the task, send along your portfolio.
It's a quick update this month since I am focused on getting these scripts written. Writing is my least favorite part of this process. I'm really wanting to start filming and editing!
Comments
Bryan Schaefer
Thanks for all the work you've put into this!
Natalie Page
I'm patiently waiting to see this series. I've visited Hawaii with my family as a kid on multiple occasions. I'd have to look back at old images to know how many times for sure. It's interesting how a lot of tour guides give extensive lectures on the history of Hawaii, yet they would all contradict each other. One tried to tell us all that the proper pronunciation of humuhumunukunukuapua'a doesn't include the okina, while another then corrected us for using his supposedly pronunciation. It seems like Hawaiian does use more actual phonemes than the simplified alphabet lets on... W can in fact make a true W sound at times, and I was surprised to learn that K can be said as a T sound. That said, I've been hearing more Anglophones trying to approximate the Hawaiian pronunciation of Hawai'i lately. I noticed they focus consciously on the /v/, the glottal stop, and the fact that /ai/ is closer to /ǔi/... but realize that /ǔi/ as /ǔ/. Frankly it reminds me of when people try to pronounce Nevada as "Nevahda" to be truer to the Spanish pronunciation, but changing one vowel still leaves you far from it, the *length* of the English vowel is actually closer to it, and it might make you sound like an outsider, or perhaps that you're trying to convey that your Spanish is better than it is, while perhaps conveying the opposite. And no one ever tries to say "FlorEEda"... go figure.
