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diff --git a/content/fr/accueil/div-content.html b/content/fr/accueil/div-content.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2aea644 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/fr/accueil/div-content.html @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<h2>Etymology</h2> +<p>The word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha-invalid" target="_blank">aloha</a> derives from the Proto-Polynesian root <i>*qalofa</i>. It has cognates in other Polynesian languages, such as Samoan alofa +and Māori aroha, also meaning "love."</p> +<table> +<caption>with a caption.</caption> +<tr><td>This</td><td>is</td></tr> +<tr><td>a</td><td>table.</td></tr> +</table> +<p>A folk etymology claims that it derives from a compound of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii" target="_blank">Hawaiian</a> words alo meaning "presence", "front", "face", or "share"; and +ha, meaning "breath of life" or "essence of life." Although alo does indeed mean "presence" etc., the word for breath is spelled with a macron +or kahakō over the a (hā) whereas the word aloha does not have a long a.</p> +<h2>Usage</h2> +<p>Before contact with the West, the words used for greeting were welina and anoai. Today, "aloha kakahiaka" is the phrase for "good +morning." "Aloha ʻauinalā" means "good afternoon" and "aloha ahiahi" means "good evening." "Aloha kākou" is a common form of "welcome to all."</p> +<p>In modern Hawaiʻi, numerous businesses have aloha in their names, with more than 3 pages of listings in the Oʻahu phone book alone.</p> +<h2>Trends</h2> +<p>Recent trends are popularizing the term elsewhere in the United States. Popular entertainer, Broadway star and Hollywood actress Bette +Midler, born in Honolulu, uses the greeting frequently in national appearances. The word was also used frequently in the hit television drama +Hawaii Five-O. In the influential 1982 film comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the eccentric teacher Mr. Hand makes use of the greeting. The +Aloha Spirit is a major concept in Lilo and Stitch, a very popular Disney series of movies and TV shows, set in Hawaiʻi. The drama series Lost, +shot in Hawaiʻi, has a thank you note at the end of the credits saying "We thank the people of Hawaiʻi and their Aloha Spirit". Aloha is a term +also used in the Nickelodeon program Rocket Power.</p> +<ul> + <li>Arguably the most famous historical Hawaiian song, "Aloha ʻOe" was written by the last queen of Hawaii, Liliʻuokalani.</li> + <li>The term inspired the name of the ALOHA Protocol introduced in the 1970s by the University of Hawaii.</li> + <li>In Hawaii someone can be said to have or show aloha in the way they treat others; whether family, friend, neighbor or stranger.</li> +</ul> |