Hi to everybody...seems Captain Autumn is right in correcting my last post...here's the real meaning and how it came to be misinterpreted...
Word History: A widely-held belief has it that the word kangaroo comes from an Australian Aboriginal word meaning "I don't know." This is in fact untrue. The word was first recorded in 1770 by Captain James Cook, when he landed to make repairs along the northeast coast of Australia. In 1820, one Captain Phillip K. King recorded a different word for the animal, written "mee-nuah." As a result, it was assumed that Captain Cook had been mistaken, and the myth grew up that what he had heard was a word meaning "I don't know" (presumably as the answer to a question in English that had not been understood). Recent linguistic fieldwork, however, has confirmed the existence of a word gangurru in the northeast Aboriginal language of Guugu Yimidhirr, referring to a species of kangaroo. What Captain King heard may have been their word minha, meaning "edible animal."
Shame, I liked the myth better...HLOL...I'm surprised the prog I watched didn't check that out before putting it out as fact...the guy doing is normally pretty good but this is a bit of a slip up...bet many people watching it are going around now believing Kangaroo means 'I dunno'...
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DominicGee
- 23.07.2008 @ 14:52:32
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jenray
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- 23.07.2008 @ 19:30:32
LOL...It has been said that when the English sailors came ashore everybody held their breath because they stank so much and as most didn't swim, it was unlikely they washed either...they also carried diseases with them as well so not very popular with foreigners...nothing's changed...
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we continue to learn
KANGAROO :
1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks, supposedly an aborigine word from northeast Queensland, Australia, usually said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon ("The Languages of Australia," Cambridge, 1980), the word probably is from Guugu Yimidhirr (Endeavour River-area Aborigine language) /gaNurru/ "large black kangaroo."
"In 1898 the pioneer ethnologist W.E. Roth wrote a letter to the Australasian pointing out that gang-oo-roo did mean 'kangaroo' in Guugu Yimidhirr, but this newspaper correspondence went unnoticed by lexicographers. Finally the observations of Cook and Roth were confirmed when in 1972 the anthropologist John Haviland began intensive study of Guugu Yimidhirr and again recorded /gaNurru/.-
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jenray
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- 23.07.2008 @ 19:35:01
HLOL...wonder if kangaroo ears are pricking up all over Australia...GBHs..
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kangaroo Burgers
1 kg kangaroo mincemeat
2 large eggs
1 cup breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon garlic, crushed (less if desired)
1 large brown onion, finely diced
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup tomato sauce (or ketchup)
12 drops Tabasco sauce (optional)
2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 large carrot, grated
Directions
Thoroughly mix all ingredients together in large bowl.
Form into 8-12 burgers as desired and cook on medium well oiled BBQ plate until cooked through, turning several times. It is a fairly crumbly / low-fat burger so turn over carefully.
Serve on toast, in a hamburger bun or with a salad.
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jenray
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- 24.07.2008 @ 10:02:32
Thanks, Jack....HLOL....this will be really useful to know...GBHs...XX
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have you tried Ostrich burgers...really great!! low fat, full of good things andd tastes wonderful!1
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jenray
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- 24.07.2008 @ 11:14:55
No, I haven't...nobody sells them around here...LOL..GBHs...XX
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There are a huge amount of dubious facts taken as common knowledge, especiall when it comes to History. The one I like is
'the tradition of a bride holding flowers at a wedding is to cover up her god-awful stench, as people in medieval times only had a bath once a year.'
Utter rot. As if the fact that flowers are pretty has nothing to do with it. Or that people only washed once a year. Of course people washed more than that, they may not have had microscopes but they were aware of personal hygeine (minimal disease prevention) and body odour. Part of this fact was that it also says that everyone got married at the same time (spring & summer) cos that was when people had their annual baths. Celebrating Easter, the good weather, healthy crops of course had nothing to do with it. People like to exagerate the idiocy of the past hoping it'd make us look better.