[OT]The word 'bylaws' Re: [Squeakfoundation]So....

Cees de Groot squeakfoundation@lists.squeakfoundation.org
16 Apr 2002 09:36:05 +0200


 <goran.hultgren@bluefish.se> said:
>Ok, now you can all smack me in the head and explain to me that it
>actually came from Swahili or something. :-)
>
Smack. Actually, it comes from Polynesian "balabalalu" and means so
much as "pay tall white man with big pile of squeare white leafs lots
of beautiful seashells to scribble on leafs".

(talking about languages, I'm halfway through Dutch Etoys :-))


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