Thanks, Bob. In Hawaiian, doubling a word or phrase is a way of intensifying the concept. Thus, "wiki" is quick, so "wikiwiki" is very fast.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 Feb 2015, at 19:15, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> No trip to Maui is complete with out an image of the state fiss of Hawaii: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17962185&size=lg >> Comments are invited >> >> The name means" trigger fish with a nose like a pig." >> Not to be confused with the Lauwiliwilinukunukuoioi, the needle-nosed >> butterfly fish, or "crazy fish with long long nose." >> > > Very nice fish. > > It sounds as though Hawaiian is as literal as Swahili. I remember walking on > the reef in Zanzibar with a chap who was my 'fixer' and asking "what do you > call those little black and white fish?" To which he replied "Mr. Bob, we > call those 'the little black and white fish'". > > B > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
