User talk:Kalathalan/Hawaiian

Only o-possession with ʻana?
I'm interested in the topic of nominalized verbs being possessed only with o-class possessives. This is something that I haven't heard before, and I've never seen this distinction in Hawaiian literature. What is this rule based on? I know of many literary examples where a-possession is used with a gerund.
 * Honestly, I'm not sure. My Hawaiian teacher has told us that all gerunds with possession are o-class, but perhaps this is untrue. &mdash;Kal (talk) 00:44, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Rules of spelling?
Three rules are listed under spelling, even though all three are just derived from one rule - that all consanants must be followed by a vowel (counting the ‘okina as a consanant). I'm not a linguist, so I don't know if there's a reason why the rules are written like that, but it seems inefficient. Also, in one example sentence "‘oe" is mistakenly translated as "I" instead of "you" (someone already pointed this out, but didn't fix it)