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 :-))