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Re: niaga irafas (safari again)
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Re: niaga irafas (safari again)


  • Subject: Re: niaga irafas (safari again)
  • From: Hugh Dixon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:44:01 +0000

On 11/1/03 2:29 am, "Mark Butcher" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Friday, Jan 10, 2003, at 12:00 US/Pacific, Dave Stewart wrote:
>
>> On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 06:37 AM, people bantered:
>>
>>>> It does group the iApps
>>>> together (assuming we allow Safari and Address Book admittance to
>>>> the club
>>>> despite their names...let's see...no, iAddress iBook doesn't "work").
>>>>
>>>> --John (whose curmudgeon condition is showing)
>>>
>>> Safari is back to front: iRafas. As for Address Book, I don't know
>>> what they were thinking when they named that one.
>>
>> Sweet! I didn't understand Safari at all, guessing it went with the
>> jungle theme (Jaguars in the Safari was as close as I could get).
>
> 'Safari' is a Swahili word literally meaning a journey, but often taken
> to mean going game viewing/hunting. Swahili is a coastal tribe of Kenya
> & Tanzania (who refer to their language as kiswahili). Presumably
> because of the extensive trading that was done for centuries, the
> language is now widely spoken throughout East Africa.
>
> So, safari --> journey
>
> I like it.
>
> MarkB

Surely there are still Beach Boys fans out there:

Let's go surfing now,
Everybody's learning how,
Come on a safari with me...
Come on a safari with me

Surfing - Safari... Geddit?

Hugh

Sorry about this bit:




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